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homeless international  

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  • Homeless International (HI) is a charitable organization based in the United Kingdom that works alongside partners in Asia, Africa, and Latin America to support community-led housing and development. Initially formed as a trust, HI was established in 1989 and since then it has advocated housing initiatives and other potential solutions to poverty issues by providing information and technical assistance to partners and other housing organizations, providing people in poverty with methods of establishing credit through loans and guarantees, influencing policies, and conducting research focused on long-term solutions to housing issues and poverty issues in general. [Source: Encyclopedia of Homelessness; Homeless International]

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