Tyler Merritt
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 9 Jan
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They're a faith-based organization that brings governmental, nonprofit, for-profit individuals and organizations together to try to take this collective, unified effort to have wraparound services where there's housing first, not housing only.
You know, the idea that your first step is to get someone off the street, off drugs and alcohol.
The next step is to give them that sense of purpose, try to find them employment so you can transition those individuals out and move the next group in.
And that's kind of what we've done at the Nine Line Foundation, but focused on veteran homelessness.
We have a tiny home village here in Savannah, Georgia and Brunswick, Georgia.
And we're in the current process of building an aquaponic center here in Savannah where they'll learn aquaponic initiatives, farming initiatives to grow healthy crops that could be then used for food and sustenance in these villages or sold so that the money goes back into the not.
It's kind of this venture philanthropism.
So we're really excited to kick this initiative off.
Yeah, I was going to say, how are those programs doing?
California is leading the charge in homelessness.
It's also leading the charge in government fraud, waste, and abuse.
So when you look at the numbers that perform in Georgia as compared to California, the proof is in the pitting.
And when you look at the leadership that's been implemented, starting in 2010, you have General Sunseki's initiatives with the VA that really started taking effect.
you know from 2010 to just current president with the appointment of doug collins another incredible individual faith-based individual you know veteran homelessness has has been cut in half over 50 percent so the the policies that were in place prior to general sense throughout the nation that's everywhere that's throughout the country nation veteran homelessness throughout the nation has been cut in half that's a big deal policies and initiatives
So you can't do it with the government only housing only is a failed.
Yeah.
You know, and this work in California will continue to request and demand more funds with diminishing results.
And as long as they spend their budget, they'll get more the next year.
And I think we need to put people to performance and we need to go and open it up to nonprofit organizations and to for-profit organizations to do what they do best, which is innovate.
Yeah, so our nonprofit started with helping severely wounded veterans, individuals who lose multiple limbs from traumatic experiences overseas, IEDs, helicopter crashes.
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