How One Nonprofit Is Helping To Solve Multifamily's Employment Problem

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FAIRFAX, VA–In December of 2012, Christopher Finlay, managing principal at Middleburg Real Estate Partners picked up a copy of Blue Ridge Outdoors magazine. One article later the seeds of a nonprofit, Shelters to Shutters, were planted.

The article looked at homelessness in Asheville, NC, and how many of the profiled people really wanted to work and in fact had been in the workforce prior to becoming homeless, says Andy Helmer, CEO of the Fairfax, Va.-based organization. “It was only due to bad luck that they found themselves homeless,” Helmer tells GlobeSt.com.