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Social Worker and Activist
About Mary Ramm
In 2019, Mary Ramm co-designed the 'Streetside Wellness Hub', a mobile clinic retrofitted from a decommissioned MTA bus, that delivers trauma-informed care, peer-led housing navigation, and harm-reduction supplies directly to encampments in Queens and the South Bronx. Unlike top-down service models, her hubs operate on rotating community governance boards where formerly unhoused residents hold veto power over staffing and protocol changes. She pioneered the 'Anchor Tenancy' pilot in 2022, which secures long-term leases for individuals exiting shelters *before* they meet traditional income or credit thresholds, using collective guarantor pledges from neighborhood co-ops instead of banks. Her advocacy helped shift NYC’s 2023 Housing Stability Law to mandate mental health liaisons in every borough’s Department of Homeless Services intake center, not as consultants, but as voting members of eligibility review panels. Mary doesn’t frame homelessness as a symptom of individual failure; she maps it as infrastructure collapse, broken transit routes, shuttered public clinics, and zoning laws that outlaw shared kitchens.
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- “How did the Streetside Wellness Hub adapt during the 2022 subway tunnel flooding?”
- “What’s your take on the new 'Right to Rest' ordinance in LA versus NYC’s approach?”
- “Can you walk me through how Anchor Tenancy handles domestic violence survivors’ lease transfers?”
- “How do you train peer navigators without replicating clinical hierarchies?”