Erika Warren is the communications manager at Oklahoma City's Key to Home Partnership, which is a public-private partnership aimed at coordinating efforts to address the issue of homelessness accross OKC. Key to Home works with many partner agencies to provide aid and services to individuals experiencing homelessness. In this conversation, Erika discusses how systemic factors cause people to become homeless in the first place and how a calculated, coordinated, and well-funded response from the community can genuinely help the same people get back into stable housing.

The Community Center is a show about building community. We interview various experts, advocates, and community leaders to collect a wide range of perspectives that showcase work being done in our communities today to give everyone a better idea of where we might be headed in the future.

This show is brought to you by Eryngo Urbanism.