2018 Update:Kitsap Homeless Housing Plan Community & Stakeholder Workshop

March 12, 2018 Kits

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Agenda1:00 pm Welcome & Opening Remarks

Monica Bernhard, Homeless Housing Plan Update Committee

1:15 – 1:30 Progress ReportWhat progress have we made in reducing homelessness in the last 10 years?

1:30 – 1:45 State of Homelessness in KitsapWhat are key data and statistics of homelessness in Kitsap? What does our current system look like?

1:45 – 2:30 Small Group Discussion Tables 1

2:30 – 2:45 Break

2:45 – 3:30 Small Group Discussion Tables 2

3:30 – 3:50 Report Outs from Small Group Discussion Tables

3:50 – 4:00 Wrap-Up & Next Steps

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Kirsten JewellHousing and Homelessness

Program Coordinator

Kitsap County Department of Human Services

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• Progress Report on Reducing Homelessness

• State of Homelessness in Kitsap

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Strategic Plan Goals1. Make homelessness rare.

(Prevention strategies)2. Make homelessness brief.

(Crisis response strategies)3. Make homelessness one-time.

(Long-term housing stability strategies)4. Continuously improve Homeless Response System.

(Improving capacity, coordination, and efficiency strategies)5. Expand community engagement.

(Increasing ways to engage the community in this effort)

2018 Kitsap Homeless Housing Plan

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Progress Report onEnding Homelessness

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State Legislation on Homelessness

• Various Washington State legislative actions over the last 12 years

• Original Legislative goals:1) Create and support existing affordable

housing for households in lowest 30% of incomes

2) Reduce homelessness in each county 50% in 10 years

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Established Kitsap Housing & Homelessness Program

Primary Roles1) Systemic Planning – Kitsap Homeless Housing Plan

2) Strategic Investment of Public Funds – $2.5M annually

3) Gathering Data and Reporting on Results – Point in Time Count, Homeless Management Information System

4) Coordinating Community Efforts to End Homelessness and Increase Affordable Housing

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• Required by WA Legislation Strategic Planning

• Provides framework for activities and determines what is eligible for homeless grant funding

• Important community conversation & discussion

• Original Plan: 2005, updated 2006, 2008, and 2012, 2015/2016

Homeless Housing Plan

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Kitsap Homeless Housing Planoutlines our goals, strategies, and actions

1) Make homelessness rare

2) Make homelessness brief

3) Make homelessness one time

4) Continuously improve the homeless crisis response system

5) Expand community engagement

• Collective impact model

• National evidence-based practices

• Performance measurement

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Kitsap Homeless Crisis Response System:Kitsap Housing and HomelessnessCoalition St. Vincent de Paul

Kitsap Mental Health ServicesDept. of Veterans AffairsDSHS – Bremerton CSOBremerton Housing AuthorityCatholic Community ServicesPeninsula Community HealthAgape UnlimitedKitsap Community ResourcesHousing Resources BoardStandup for KidsMax Hale CenterKitsap City Behavioral HealthThe Salvation ArmyBremerton FoodlineKitsap County Consolidated Hsg. Auth.Helpline House – Bainbridge IslandHabitat for Humanity of KitsapUnited Way of KitsapNorth Kitsap FishlineYWCA ALIVE Shelter+ Many more!

Mission: The Kitsap Housing and Homelessness Coalition provides leadership to end homelessness through planning, coordination among social service providers, advocacy and education.

• Members = Homeless Service Providers

• Advisory to Kitsap County

• Subcommittees

• Annual Project Connect Services Fairs

• Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week

50+ KCoCC Members

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Housing Solutions Center(Kitsap’s Coordinated Entry Program)

Permanent Affordable

Housing

DomesticViolence

MentalHealth

Chemical Dependency

TransitionalHousing

Homeless Prevention

Men’s Shelter

Women & ChildrenShelter

Self-Help Housing

All Homeless

Households

One-stop housing assistance center

Offices: Bremerton, Bainbridge,

Poulsbo, Port OrchardCoffee Oasis

Housing Solutions Center• Intake

• Assessment of Needs

•Vulnerability Index

• Referrals to Shelter and Services

• Landlord Outreach, Recruitment & Retention Ki

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Housing Solutions CenterIn 2017:Referred 3,225 householdsto shelter, housing, and resources

• 915 unsheltered• 442 imminently at risk of

homelessness within 2 weeks

• 1,868 unstably housed

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• Severe Weather Shelters • Winter Shelter – Open Dec – March (~ 50 beds)• Safe Park (~ 12 spots)• Night-by-Night Shelters (20 beds)• Residential Shelters (130 beds)• Transitional Housing (102 units)• Permanent Supportive Housing (273)• Permanent Housing for Low-Income Households (2719)• Section 8 / Housing Choice Vouchers (1877)

• Home Share Programs• Landlord Liaison Program

Kitsap Homeless Crisis Response System

130 102 273

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EmergencyShelter

TransitionalHousing

PermanentSupportive

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PermanentSubsidized

Section 8 &VASH

Subsidized Housing Beds & Units in Kitsap

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New Focus in 2016 Plan: • Prioritizing people who are unsheltered• Prioritizing people who are the most vulnerable• Outreach to vulnerable populations• Diverting people from homelessness through

prevention• Filling gaps in types of housing (such as tiny

shelters)

Kitsap Homeless Crisis Response System

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Severe Weather Shelter Program

• Activates ONLY when the weather is extreme (for our climate)

• Program of the Department of Emergency Management + local host organizations

• Shelters in Kingston, Poulsbo, Silverdale, Port Orchard & Bremerton this winter

• 100% volunteer operated• Needs volunteers!

Highlighted Projects

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Winter Shelter and Night-by-Night Shelter

• Winter Shelter• 50 beds during winter months (Dec – Mar) • Served very most vulnerable• Operated by Salvation Army

• Night-by-Night Shelter • 20 beds• Register earlier in the day• Operated by Kitsap Rescue Mission

Highlighted Projects

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Kitsap Connect

• Goal: reduce costs and improve health for high utilizers of emergency services

• Multi-agency partnership• Started in September 2016• 90% of clients are homeless with high needs• Provide coordinated care, connection with

housing & services• To date have worked with 67 individuals

Highlighted Projects

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Outreach Efforts

• Goals:• Build connections and relationships to develop trust• Provide information about resources

• Outreach workers:• Veterans• Encampments• Jail• Schools & streets (for youth)• Libraries, Ferry terminal • Salvation Army Social Services Program

Highlighted Projects

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Homes for All Who Served: Ending Veteran Homelessness in Kitsap• Coalition of federal, state, and local veterans

housing providers• 160+ Veteran Households have exited

homelessness• 360 veterans assisted with 1,014 services• 20+ private rental units committed• Zero unsheltered veterans• Veterans Housing Options Group: Mondays,

1pm, Kitsap Community Resources

Highlighted Projects

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Homes for All:Tiny Cottages Village

• Leadership Group of agency decision-makers

• Goal: South Kitsap Pilot Project• Village of 12 Tiny Cottages• High-functioning households• Wrap-around case management and services• Intended as temporary housing

• Expand to other villages around the county

Highlighted Projects

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How many households are we preventing from homelessness?

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Goal: Reduce the number of people who are newly homeless through targeted eviction prevention and

short-term rental assistance.

Making homelessness RARE

How many homeless households have not previously been enrolled in housing programs?

2017 = 259

2017 = 680

About the same as 2016

75% had not received housing

assistance within last 2 years

How many households are housed in these programs?

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Goal: Get people sheltered as quickly as possible and reduce the number of days spent in emergency shelter, transitional housing, rapid rehousing, or on a waitlist.

Making homelessness BRIEF

How long are households enrolled in housing programs?

1,119 households sheltered/housed

Longer time in shelter, shorter time in rapid re-

housing

What percentage of households are returning to homelessness?

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Goal: Decrease the number of returns to homelessness, and increase the number of exits to stable housing through placements into Permanent Housing and Permanent Supportive Housing, and

connection with employment and education.

Making homelessness ONE-TIME

What percentage of households are exiting programs to stable housing and/or with increased income?

2017 = 15%

2017 annual data

85% of households who exit to stable housing are not homeless

again within 2 years

Finding permanent housing and

employment are big challenges

What percentage of households are able to be assisted?

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Goal: Decrease the number of returns to homelessness, and increase the number of exits to stable housing through placements into Permanent Housing and Permanent Supportive Housing, and

connection with employment and education.

Making homelessness ONE-TIME

1 in 6 NOT able to be served

immediately

1 in 8NOT able to be served

at all

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Washington StatePrison (2)

Kitsap County Jail(3)

TransitionalHousing (4)

HousingFirst/Permanent

SupportiveHousing (5)

Emergency Shelter(6)

RapidRehousing/Rental

Assistance (7)

HomelessnessPrevention (8)

Approximate Cost Per Day Per Housing Type

Washington State and Local Gov’t Hospitals (1)

$2,429/day

(1) 2010 Kaiser State Health Facts(2) State of Wash DOC website(3) Kitsap County Jail, Ned Newlin(4) 1811 Eastlake Ave, Seattle – DESC Project(5)(6)(7)(8) Washington Department of Commerce County Report Card – Winter 2017

Hospital and Jail/Prison are most costly

Prevention and Rental Assistance are least costly

Housing people has a cost

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Kitsap Homeless Crisis Response System NOT Housing

people also has a cost

State of Homelessnessin Kitsap: Economic Factors

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• Housing affordability *• Lack of living-wage jobs

• Inadequate behavioral health supports

• People discharged from institutions without a housing plan

• Domestic violence

• Stagnant federal and state housing investments

• Poverty = High-risk of housing instability & displacement

Causes of losing housing are complex

AlcoholismDisplacement

Domestic Violence

Eviction

Family CrisisHealth

ProblemsIllness

Mental Illness

New Arrival

Out of Home Youth

Primarily Economic Reasons

Substance Abuse

Transient on the Road

Reasons for Displacement

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Great Recession affected much of the progress!

• Great Recession • Highest Unemployment in Decades• Record Foreclosures• Skyrocketing Health Costs• Loss of Retirements & Investments

• Reductions in State & Federal Funding for Programs

More people homeless!

Less resources to help!

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88% gap in availability of

affordable housing

Housing Availability gap for households earning < $23,000 - $38,000 annually

Washington State Affordable Housing Needs Assessment, 2015

Affordable housing crisis for lowest income households

Affordable = spending

< 30% of income on

housing

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For every $100 increasein the average rent

homelessness increases6% in metro areas;

32% in non-metro areas*

* Source: Journal of Urban Affairs, New Perspectives on Community-Level Determinants of Homelessness, 2012

Housing affordability drives increases in homelessness

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Kitsap Rent/Unit and Vacancy Rates

Avg Rent/Unit Vacancy Rate

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Average rent has increased

$369 in the last three years to $1,297, a 28%

increase

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Even more households are at high risk for

homelessness

13,875 Renter Households pay more

than 30% of income for housing, often 50%+

Washington State Affordable Housing Needs Assessment, 2015

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From NLIHC Out of Reach 2017 Report

Wages not keeping pace with housing costs

Impossible to afford housing on average

renter wage or minimum wage

$33.42

$28.54

$19.98

$15.44

$12.67

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Housing Wage forFour Bedroom

Housing Wage forThree Bedroom

Housing Wage forTwo Bedroom

Housing Wage forOne Bedroom

Housing Wage forZero Bedroom

Mean RenterWage

Minium Wage

Kitsap County Out of Reach 2017

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Behavioral Health issues displace many people

Need assistance to find and stay housed

Mental Health reported as an issue by 37% of people seeking housing help

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Poverty on the rise

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• 10% of residents live under poverty level

• 2% increase over last 10 years• 26,000 people

• 9% of school-aged children live under the poverty line

• 3% increase over last 10 years• 5,000 children

• 36% of public school kids enrolled in free/reduced lunch

• 42% of civilian births paid by Medicaid

Federal Poverty Level 1 person = less than $11,880/year4 person household = less than $24,300

State of Homelessnessin Kitsap: Data

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Homeless Data

Caveats:

• Difficult to measure

• Different definitions

• Ever-changing, elusive, not fixed

• Never include all homeless, only those who want to be counted – social stigma

• Each source is a different perspective, rarely match-up with each other

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2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018Transitional Housing 201 273 192 143 147 72 155 152 192 180 152Doubled Up 266 290 207 305 151 162 119 154 202 110 70Emergency Shelter 84 73 88 92 118 104 66 84 72 171 169Unsheltered 150 164 103 93 60 64 77 106 181 165 146Total 701 800 590 633 476 402 417 496 647 626 537

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Kitsap Point in Time Count of Homeless Persons:All Individuals, by Year

* Numbers for year 2018 are preliminary until certified by WA Department of Commerce

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On a given day, more than 150 people are

unsheltered.

2018 Point In Time Count – 205 Unsheltered individuals on 1/26/18

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Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total2014 407 251 291 228 175 199 243 175 244 236 148 182 27792015 344 301 312 283 244 280 263 295 262 290 209 175 32582016 438 344 352 327 310 336 288 277 243 279 281 220 36952017 563 359 365 299 300 247 189 198 187 193 190 134 3224

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HSC Monthly Enrollments by Household2014-2017 YTD

1199 Literally Homeless Households

412 Imminently at Risk Households

Total 20173,224 Households5,592 Individuals

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Based on 1,756 people unsheltered during 2017 receiving HSC referrals, out of Kitsap population of 260,000

1 in 150 people in Kitsap County

experienced homelessness

in 2017

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Place not meant for habitationEmergency Shelter, including…

Safe HavenInterim Housing

Foster care home or foster care…Hospital or other residential non-…

Jail, prison or juvenile detention…Long-term care facility or nursing…

Psychiatric hospital or other…Substance abuse treatment facility…

Residential project or halfway house…Transitional housing for homeless…

Staying with Family or FriendsSubsidized Permanent Housing

Unsubsidized Permanent Housing

Housing Solutions CenterPrior Living Situation 2017

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One night or Less, 229, 7%

Two to six nights, 321,

10%

One week or more, but less

than one month, 443, 15%

One month or more, but less than 90 days,

417, 14%

90 days or more, but less than one

year, 635, 21%

One year or longer, 989, 33%

Housing Solutions Center2017 Length of Stay at Prior Living Situation

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Kitsap Data ~ School Districts

Bainbridge Island, 9

Bremerton, 434Central Kitsap, 427

North Kitsap, 81

South Kitsap, 192

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Homeless Children and Youth by Kitsap County School District

2015 - 2016 Total = 1143

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Demographic Summary

• 1 in 5 homeless are children under 18

• 150+ are unsheltered at any given time

• 1200+ households homeless over the course of a year

• 36% of households are homeless for < 1 months

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State of Homelessnessin Kitsap: Gaps & Un-met Needs

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Gaps in Homeless Shelter & Housing Availability

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Continuous updates

2017 Community Wait List for Shelter

The above chart reflects households added to the waitlist throughout the year. In any given month, additional households may be added or removed from the waiting list. Households are removed from the waiting list when either, 1) The household is placed into a shelter meeting their needs, 2)The household identified alternative housing options, or 3) The household did not maintain contact with the HSC within the past 3 weeks.

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2017 Unable to Serve112

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Other Program Disqualifier

Qualified, No Funding Available

Funding Doesn't Cover Client's Needs

Client Over Income

Other Lack of Resource/Funds

Client Under Income/Can't Sustain Rent

Not Homeless or At-Risk

Client Declined Options Provided

Already Receiving Assistance

Non-Compliance with Program

Denied by Program/Shelter

No Shelter for Household Type

Unable to Serve Total = 323

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2017 HSC Clients: Literally Homeless

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Domestic Violence

Physical Disability (Long Term)

Developmental Disability

Co-occuring Physical/Developmental Disability

Mental Illness

Substance Use Disorder

Co-occuring Mental Illness & Substance Use

Male HoH

Female HoH

Transgender HoH

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Gaps in our Crisis Response System

• Unsheltered people with complex and/or multiple issues (mental health, substance abuse, physical disabilities, health issues, etc.)

• Respite Care beds for medically fragile discharges from hospitals to homelessness

• Residential shelter for couples, pet-owners, and medically fragile

• Housing for people exiting from jail/prison to homelessness or with a criminal record or eviction history

• Housing for people with fixed incomes (elderly, disabled)

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Updating the Kitsap Homeless Housing Plan

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Inputs for plan• Homeless Data & Demographics

• Point In Time Count Homeless Management Information System Coordinated Entry Program Homeless Client Survey

• Kitsap Stakeholders• Meetings with Mayors/Commissioners Stakeholders

Workshops Providers Survey

• Evidence-based Practices• WA Commerce Technical Assistance Guidance

National Research Other Counties’ Plans

Update Process

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Opportunities for Input• Community & Provider Survey + Client Survey (Feb -

March)• Stakeholders Events (March 12)• Kitsap Continuum of Care Coalition (March 21)• Meetings with Mayors and Commissioners • (April & May)• Release for Public Comment (est. April 26 – May 14)• Board of Commissioners Study Session (May 9)• Public Hearing & Adoption (May 14)

2018 Kitsap Homeless Housing Plan

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Requirements of Plan• Actionable Steps• Timelines for implementation• Responsible organizations identified for action steps

2018 Kitsap Homeless Housing Plan

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Goal of the PlanWork together as a community to make homelessness a rare, brief, and one-time occurrence in Kitsap County and ensure that our homeless response system is as efficient and effective as possible.

2018 Kitsap Homeless Housing Plan

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Plan FormatI. Introduction/Executive SummaryII. 2005 – 2017 Progress Report III. Current State of Homelessness

• Key Demographics• Response System & Resources• Gaps in Current Homeless Response System

VI. Strategic Plan: Objectives, Strategies & Action StepsVII. Performance Indicators VIII. Appendices

2018 Kitsap Homeless Housing Plan

Total of 25-30 pages!

Ambitious, Actionable, Effective

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Strategic Plan Goals1. Make homelessness rare.

(Prevention strategies)

2. Make homelessness brief. (Crisis response strategies)

3. Make homelessness one-time. (Long-term housing stability strategies)

4. Continuously improve Homeless Response System. (Improving capacity, coordination, and efficiency strategies)

5. Expand community engagement.

2018 Kitsap Homeless Housing Plan

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Small Group Discussions

What are the action steps that should be included in the 2018 Update to the Homeless Housing Plan?

Small Groups Meet: 1:45 – 2:30 & 2:45 – 3:30

Goal 1. Make homelessness rareGoal 2. Make homelessness briefGoal 3. Make homelessness one-timeGoal 4. Improve the Response SystemGoal 5. Expand community engagement

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Report Outs fromSmall Group Discussions

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Thank you for your participation!

Together we can make a difference!

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The ache for home lives in all of us,

the safe placewhere we can go as we are

and not be questioned.

- Maya Angelou

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Everybody does better when everybody does

better.

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