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Tealla and Will Dilka, and their 2-year-old son, David, have seen their share of missteps and

misfortune.But for thefirst timeinyears, theyhaveahome.Nothingfancy, justasimpleapartment

on the Boise Bench. In October 2016, the voucher that pays for the vast majority of their rent will

expire. Between now and then, the family hopes to work its way out of relying on government

assistance.Thechallengesaremany:healthproblems,lackofsteadywork,anewpregnancy.Butthe

Dilkas are determined never to land back in a shelter. Meanwhile, the second meeting of Boise

Mayor Dave Bieter’s summit on homelessness is Thursday, aimed at helping people around Ada

Countyunderstand thecomplexitiesofhomelessness, oneof society’s trulypersistent challenges.

StatesmanreporterSvenBerg tells theDilkas’ storyandwhat’s emergingat thesummit.DEPTH,D1

HOMELESSNESS IN BOISE

A PLACE OF THEIR OWNForget the expiring voucher. Forget the list of problems. Tealla and Will Dilkaare just glad to have a home, for now. How can Boise build on such successes?

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WEST HARTFORD, Conn. —Twice a day, Koen Hughes’ medi-cine alarm beeps and sputters. Heyells out across the kitchen to hisfather,retiredArmyStaffSgt.JonahHughes, an IraqWar veteran, whosuffers fromsuchaseverebrain in-jurythatit’shardforhimtoremem-

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parent.”And,theboysaysloweringhisblueeyes totheground,“it’sdif-ferent than having other kinds ofparents.”

In households nationwide, hun-dreds of thousands of woundedparents have come home from thewars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and

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Tealla andWill Dilka are goodatrememberingdates.

They recall, without hesita-tion, the years, months and daysthatthemostimportantmomentsof their liveshappened.

TheymetinAugust2009.Teal-la quit meth that October. Dec. 3,2009, was their first date. Febru-ary2010wasthelasttimeWillDil-ka worked regularly. He was hisparents’ professional caretakeruntilhequit followingadisagree-mentwiththem.

Their son, David, was bornDec. 29, 2012. Tealla, 30, is preg-nantagain.She’sduethis fall.

On Feb. 28, 2013, after a run ofbad luck, the family moved intoInterfaith Sanctuary, a homelessshelter between the Connector,Americana Boulevard and RiverStreet inBoise.

They got married July 2, 2013,nexttothefountaininAnnMorri-son Park. Three months later,Tealla landedherjobwithF.I.L.O.Local Crew, a company that setsup venues for concerts and otherevents.

On Oct. 16, 2014, they spenttheirfirstnightintheirownhomeafter getting a housing voucherthrough the city of Boise. ThevoucherexpiresOctober2016.

Until then, their apartment onthe Bench costs them $26 amonth.Thevouchercovers$704,Teallasaid.Theirmonthlyout-of-pocket costs are less than a lot of

people pay, but covering them isstill a struggle. They don’t havecable or Internet, but they’ve de-cided they need cellphones sothat Tealla’s boss can contact herandsothatsheandWillcanget intouch if there’s an emergency.They buy bus passes and givefriends gasmoney for rides. Fed-eral assistance doesn’t quite cov-er their foodbills.

Tealla’s work is seasonal, sothere are times when not muchmoney is coming in.Will, 41, saidhewasdiagnosedwith emphyse-ma three years ago but hasn’t re-ceived disability payments yet.He’s worked here and there, butthedisease limitshim.

He stands on street cornersduringtheleantimesandbegsformoney to buy things such as toi-letriesanddiapers.

“Igeta fewpeoplesaying, ‘Youjust want alcohol,’ and all this,”Will said. “Whatever. You don’tknowme.You don’t knowwhat’sgoing on day-to-day in my life.You’vegottohavealotofnervetojust stand out there and actuallylooksomebodyinthefaceandsayyouneedhelp.”

WillhasfamilyinIdaho.Beforecoming here, he lived in Colora-do.Hemovedfromplacetoplacearound the country before that.He was addicted to crack andacid, but he’s been sober for nineyears.

Tealla, an Idaho native, saidWill told her he’d leave her if shestarted using drugs again. Shedoesn’t want to lose him. She

yearns for the family to be self-sufficient.

“I don’t see it in my near, nearfuture, but inmy future Ido see ittowherewe’renotonHealthandWelfare (assistance), we’re noton housing (assistance),” shesaid. “Next year Iwant to be ableto pay rent on my own withoutanyhelp.”

Morethananything, theydon’twant to landbackatSanctuary.

“We’re not going to go back tothe shelter. ... It’d be a very, verylast resort,”Will said. “Being in ahomeless shelter is not living alife.”

SICKANDTIREDSanctuary helped the Dilkas

survive for almost two years, buttheyweredesperateto leave.Notjust because of what being de-pendenton theshelter saidaboutwho they were. They were sur-rounded by activities they need-ed to avoid, people they didn’twant tobecome.

Thefirstfewmonthsthere,Da-vid was sick all the time. He wasborn prematurely, so he hadhealth complications already.When thingswere at theirworst,Tealla said, people who workedor stayed at Sanctuary pitched intohelp.

Will and Tealla were sick, too.Teallasaidshehadfrequentemo-tional breakdowns, partly fromworrying about David. Will saidhe constantly battled bronchitis

HOMELESSNESS IN BOISE

The path to self-reliance

KYLE GREEN / kgreen@idahostatesman.com

Tealla and Will Dilka eat dinner with their 2-year-old son, David. The Dilkas spent most of David’s life in a homeless shelter, but today, thanksto a housing voucher from the city of Boise and the Boise City Ada County Housing Authority, they have an apartment to call their own.

After nearly two years in a shelter, the Dilkas havetheir own apartment. Will the Boise mayor’s

homelessness summit lead to more success stories?

WHYARE BOISE’S

HOMELESSNESS

MEETINGS

INVITATION-ONLY?

In the early afternoon ofApril 7, Boise homelessactivist ShavoneHassecomplained to a Boisepolice officer that a vio-lation of Idaho’s openmeeting lawhad occurredMarch 12 at theAlbert-sons offices.

Hassewas referring tothe firstmeeting ofMayorDave Bieter’s homeless-ness summit. The publicandmediawere not al-lowed at the invitation-onlymeeting. Peoplewhoattended included leadersof local governments,businesses, churches andcharities.

With a fewexceptions,Idaho law requiresmeet-ings of government bodiesto be open to the public.The city of Boise chose aninvitation-only format forthe summit’s firstmeet-ings so that the peopleattending could talk freelyabout homelessness andideas for addressing itwithout fear of beingjudged, city spokesmanMike Journee said. As thesummit progresses, Jour-nee said, proposals fornewpolicieswill be pre-sented for public dis-cussion.

The officerwho tookHasse’s report gave it totheAdaCounty Prose-cutor’sOffice, whichreferred the case to theIdahoAttorneyGeneral’sOffice, which said itwon’tconfirmor deny investiga-tions.

BY SVEN BERG

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!READ AN IN-DEPTH LOOK AT HOW BOISE AND THE HOUSING AUTHORITY FIGHT

HOMELESSNESS, AND OUR STORY ON THE EVOLUTION OF “HOBO HANGOUT.”

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Sen.MikeCrapo’sdecisiontovote infavorofapubliclandsdivestitureamend-

ment tothe2015budgetresolu-tionhascreatedastir inIdaho,especiallyamongconservation-istswhohaveoftenworkedwithCrapooncollaborativesolu-tionstopublic landissues.Theamendment, sponsoredbySen.LisaMurkowski,R-Alaska,wasapprovedonMarch26ona51-49vote.ThreeRepublicansjoinedthesolidDemocraticandIndependentminority inoppos-ingtheamendment. IfCrapooranyotherRepublicanhadalsojoinedthem, theamendmentwouldhavefailed.Thatmathhas intensifiedthescrutinyofCrapo’svote.

BothMurkowskiandCrapohavepointedout that theamendmentdoesnot itselftransferanypublic landtothestatesor toanyoneelse.Anon-bindingamendmenttoanon-bindingbudgetresolution, it isalmostentirelysymbolic in itseffect.Thequestion iswhetherthisepisodecreatesanopportu-nity foranycreativenewsolu-tions inthepublic landarena.

Idon’tbelievetheMurk-owskiamendment itselfpre-sentssuchanopportunity.WhileCrapohasarguedthat thenewlanguagehasthepotentialto further thecauseofcollab-oration, itwasneitherofferednorpassedinthatspirit. In fact,theamendmentappears tobejustonemoreroundintheend-lesssagaof theSagebrushRe-bellion,whichonlyserves todeepentheregion’s ideologicaldivisions.Thisapproachhasnevergoneanywhere,andthechancesare itneverwill.

Thatkindof fruitlessdeepen-ingof ideologicalantagonismis,ofcourse,exactly theoppositeofwhatCrapohassomasterful-lyencouragedthroughhisback-ingofcreativeproblem-solvingeffortssuchastheOwyheePublicLandManagementActor theongoingClearwaterBasinCollaborative.Nooneinthecountryhasbeenmoredoggedor indeedmoresuccessful innurturingcross-ideologicalsolutionstotoughpublic landissuesthanMikeCrapo.Nooneisbetterpositionedtohelptakethatpragmaticapproachtoscalewithinthepublic landssystem.

Almostbydefinition,anycongressionallysanctionedframeworkforsupportingcollaborativeapproachestopublic landissuesmust itselfbetheresultofcollaboration.Thatmeans,ataminimum,that(un-like theMurkowskiamend-ment) itmustbegenuinely

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andpneumoniaatSanctuary.ForawhiletheDilkasspenttheir

days with other homeless peopleunder the Connector’s 16th Streetoverpass, an area known as HoboHangout. It tortured them to ex-poseDavidtosomeoftheactivitiesthere. Drunkenness was every-where. Sometimes people smokedmethinfrontof theirson.

“Ican’tputmysoninthisjeopar-dy,” Tealla said she told herself. “AcopwalksupandI’msittinghereinthevicinity,I’mgoingtogetintrou-bleforbeingwheredrugsarebeingused. CPS is going to get called onmebecauseI’mnext to it.”

Tealla admitted she still getscravings for meth, though not asbadly as she used to. Being aroundpeople whowere smoking it jeop-ardized her sobriety. So she andWill stopped going toHoboHang-out. Instead, they took David toFairviewParkduringthedaytime.

COALITIONOFTHEWILLING?HoboHangout is thereasonma-

ny Boiseans know their city hashomeless people. Over the pastyear or so, it’s turned from a placewhere people loiter in the daytimetoamakeshift residenceformaybe40people.Thecamphasspilledin-to the alleys behind Sanctuary andeastward to the 15th Street over-pass.

Besides drugs and alcohol, vio-lence is a problem in Hobo Hang-out. Some of the people who staytheresayfightsarecommon.Somehave woken up to find they werebeatenintheirsleep.

In October, 37-year-old RustyBittonwasbeatentodeathnearthecamp. Scotty Turnbull, 24, wascharged with second-degree mur-der in the case. Turnbull was alsochargedwithbatteryforattackingawomanaboutthesametimeBittonwaskilled.

Late lastyear, as thespectacleofHobo Hangout grewmore visible,Boise Mayor Dave Bieter startedputtingtogetherplansforasummitonhomelessnessinBoise.Thefirstmeeting, which was closed to thepublic and newsmedia, took placearound lunchtime March 12. Rep-resentatives of local businesses,governments and charities met atthe Albertsons building on Park-Center Boulevard and discussedthe basics of the problem: the factthat homeless people are in Boiseandthechallengesof takingcareofthem.

Itwasa first step formany intoacomplex, obstinate problem. Bie-ter’sgoalinfuturemeetingsistoin-spire a coalition of people thatcomes up with ways to addresshomelessness, povertyand thedif-ficulty of finding affordable hous-ing in Boise. The invitation-onlymeetings are scheduled to takeplaceeverysixweeksorsountilthegroup starts putting together poli-cy ideas topresent tothepublic.

‘CULTURESHOCK’David’s better now that the Dil-

kas have their own home. Besidesphysical problems, Tealla said, thetoddlerstartedpickingupbadhab-its at Sanctuary, like bullying littlegirlsandthrowingthings.

“He still throws his little tan-trums,buthedoesn’tbully thekidsanymore,”shesaid.

WillandTeallaarestilladjustingto life under their own roof. AtSanctuary, they lived in a roomwith three other families and nowalls between them. They had tobe in bed by 9 p.m. and out of theshelterby7a.m.mostdays.

Someof thosehabitshavestuck.Breakingthemtakestime.

“It’salmost likeacultureshock,”Willsaid.“Wewereusedtowakingup and seeing just people scram-bling everywhere, trying to getready, trying to get their stuff putup. Itwas definitely a change to sitdown and enjoy a cup of coffee inpeaceandquiet.”

Living on their own isn’t easy.Thereare lotsofbills. Paying themis difficult because their income isspotty.

Heartacheisalwaysjustbeneaththesurface forTealla,whogaveupher first twochildren for friends toraise. The younger of those two, agirl, doesn’t know Tealla is hermom.

But theykeep theirheadsup. In-dependence is worth fighting for,theysay.

HOUSINGFIRSTTheDilkas are the exact kind of

success story Garden City MayorJohn Evans will be thinking aboutasheparticipates inBieter’shome-lessnesssummit.

Evans believes the people in-volved in thesummitneed toworktoward a regional solution forhomelessnessinsteadofrelyingona collection of responses by gov-ernments and nonprofits to fill inthegaps.Hedidn’tofferspecificre-commendations.

“Needwilloutpaceresourcesonmostthingswedealwithingovern-ment. So, at some point, we’re go-ing toget toaprioritizationdiscus-sion,” he said. “Those that want tochange their circumstance, per-sonally, that’s where my interestlies.”

TheDilkasagree thatnotevery-onewho’shomelesswantsahome.

“There’salotofpeoplethathangout at Hobo Hangout and Sanctu-ary that have actually stated thattheyprefer tobehomeless,”TeallaDilkasaid.“Becausetheygetevery-thing handed to thembeinghome-less. They get their laundry donefor them once a week. They getfoodhandedtothem.”

The second convening of thesummit isThursday.The “housingfirst”model isalikelytopicincom-ingmeetings.

“Housing first” proponents be-lieve that getting homeless peopleinto homes is the first step to end-inghomelessness.Thatsoundsob-vious,but it’snot.

CAUSEOREFFECT?First, defining homelessness is

moredifficultthanyoumightthink.Everyone knows the man whosleeps in the street for a year qual-ifies as homeless. What about afamilythatgetsevictedandspendsa single night in the shelter? Howlongdotheyhavetostaytheretobe

considered homeless?What aboutpeople sleeping on their parents’couches?At anypoint in time, a lotmore people are on the verge ofhomelessness or in and out ofhomes than are typically countedinacommunity’shomelesspopula-tion.

Most estimates put the numberof homeless people inAdaCountybetween800and1,200.

The city of Boise takes a broadapproachtotheproblem.ItsHous-ing andCommunityDevelopmentstaffers thinkof chronichomeless-nessasoneendofthehousingspec-trum.TheyseeBoise’slackofaffor-dable housing as a major factor inhomelessness.

Any kind of for-rent housing ishard to find in Boise right now.Cheap housing is even harder tofind, since tight supply has drivenupprices.

Apartment projects are beingplanned or built all over the Trea-sureValley,butfewhaveopenedinrecent years. Rent for many of thenewapartmentswillbeonthehighside for Boise’s market, though anincrease insupply figures tosoftenprices.

The Boise City/Ada CountyHousing Authority helps some2,300 people pay rent and utilitybills, and thecityofBoise rentsoutroughly 300 homes to low-incomepeople. That’s about it for locallysubsidizedhousing.

Developershereavoid federallysubsidizedaffordablehousingpro-jects.Tomake aprofit, they’dhaveto charge more for an apartmentthanthepeople they’rerentingcanafford,because the federalgovern-ment limits the income those ten-antscanearn.

Then there’s the question of un-derlyingcausesofhomelessness.Alot of homeless people — reliablestatistics are hard to find— sufferfrom mental health problems, ad-dictionandphysicalailments,allofwhich make it harder to get andkeepjobsandhomes..

Someexpertsbelievetheunder-lyingproblemshavetobefixedbe-fore a person can be expected tomaintainahome.

Housing first advocates say theopposite. Put theperson ina stablehome, theysay, thenget toworkontheotherproblems.

SALTLAKECITY,OFCOURSESalt Lake City and its surround-

ing area are often mentioned as amodelofhowtoaddresshomeless-ness.Expertstheresayalotofworkstillneedstobedone,butthere’snodoubt the community has madegreat strides, partly through em-bracingthehousingfirstmodel.

The Church of Jesus Christ ofLatter-day Saints deserves somecredit. The church contributesmoney, organizes volunteers andruns a welfare program that feedsall kinds of people, not just Mor-mons.BoisehasasmallerLDScon-gregation than Salt Lake, so it fig-uresthechurchwouldhavelessin-fluencehere.

But the church in Salt Lake isn’talone in attacking homelessness.ChadWard, an LDS spokesman inBoise and one of the summit invi-tees, said hewent to Salt LakeCitytwo weeks ago to educate himselfon what the church is doing thereand how that experiencemight beapplied inBoise.

The bottom line: State, countyandcity governments, housing au-thorities and the private businesscommunity all work together tostamp out homelessness in SaltLake.Here, Boise city governmentand the localhousingauthorityarethesafetynet’smaintenders.

Ward is optimisticBieter’s sum-mit will change that by buildingcollaboration among public andprivate groups. The local LDSchurchwants tobeapartof the so-

lution,hesaid.Hedidnotarguethemeritsofonepolicyoveranother.

“If we can do anything to helpour brothers and sisters on thestreet that are homeless, we’re allfor it.Youdon’thavetoguessthat,”Ward said. “We do things becausewe’re trying to follow what wethink Jesus Christ would do. Andwhen it gets intopolitical thingsoreven these policy issues and stuff,all of our stuff has to be in keepingwithour faith.”

INDEPENDENCEPLANIt took 18 months for the Dilkas

to get a housing voucher. Theywere lucky. These days, the aver-age wait for a voucher is aroundfiveyears,saidJillianPatterson,thehousing authority’s housing pro-gramsmanager.

Once they had it, theywere giv-en two months to find an apart-ment. Thatmeant filling out appli-cations, paying application fees,lining up references and a host ofother complexities. It’s a lot to askofsomebodywhohasn’tdealtwithfinding private housing for almosttwoyears.

They said some of the familiesthey knew at Sanctuary couldn’tfind an apartment before the twomonths expired, so they lost theirspot in line. Their own deadlinewasnearwhentheapartmentcamethrough.

Their cheap rent won’t last.They’re trying to scrape togetherenough money to get licensed asflaggers on road constructioncrews. That kind of jobwould go alongwaytostabilizingtheirfinanc-es enough to achieve Tealla’sdreamofstandingontheirown.

Theclock is ticking,but fornow,they’re just happy to have theirownhome.

“We’ve been here for almost sixmonths now and it’s still hard tocomprehend this is ours,” Teallasaid.

SvenBerg: 377-6275;

Twitter:@IDS_SvenBerg

HOMELESSCONTINUED FROM D1

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Tealla Dilka plays with David under the 16th Street bridge in Boise in June 2014. Will Dilka is at left. With complaints about the number of home-less people on the rise, the city of Boise took steps last fall to limit squatting in homeless camps near Boise’s shelters.

THEHOMELESSNESS

SUMMIT

The cities of Boise andMeridian, the IdahoDepart-ment ofHealth andWelfareand the BoiseCityAdaCountyHousingAuthority are hostinga series ofmeetings this springto talk aboutways to reducehomelessness inAdaCounty.

The first severalmeetingsare invite-only, a format orga-nizers say is aimed at encour-aging candor. The firstmeetingwasMarch 12. The second isscheduled for 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.Thursday at SaintAlphonsusRegionalMedical Center.

Ideas for addressing home-lessness laterwill be presentedto the public, though no sched-ule for that has been set, cityspokesmanMike Journee said.

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covers the city ofBoise for theStatesman.Hegrewup inwest-ernMontana andNorth Idaho.

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