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City & County of Honolulu Mayor’s Housing First ACTION PLAN

City & County of Honolulu Mayor’s Housing First ACTION PLAN . Jun Yang CCH Office of Housing Executive Director. Demographic of Honolulu’s Homeless Persons. Honolulu 2013 Point In Time Count 4,556 homeless persons 1,465 unsheltered homeless 505 chronically homeless

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City & County of Honolulu Mayor’s Housing First ACTION PLAN

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  1. City & County of HonoluluMayor’s Housing FirstACTION PLAN Jun Yang CCH Office of Housing Executive Director City and County of Honolulu

  2. Demographic of Honolulu’s Homeless Persons Honolulu 2013 Point In Time Count 4,556 homeless persons 1,465 unsheltered homeless 505 chronically homeless Unsheltered: 78% severely mentally ill 55% chronic substance abusers 29% both mentally ill and chronic substance abuser City and County of Honolulu

  3. Chronically Homeless Persons City and County of Honolulu

  4. Policy and Philosophy Treatment First vs Housing First • Transition through various levels of housing, shelters, transitional apartments • Each move closer to independent housing • Treatment usually mandatory • Housing = Treatment City and County of Honolulu

  5. Elements of Housing First City and County of Honolulu

  6. Results of Housing First City and County of Honolulu

  7. Recommendations City and County of Honolulu • Adopt Housing First principles to address health & safety of unsheltered homeless. • Implement two-year pilot at scattered sites in Downtown, Waikiki & Waianae at estimate cost of $48,000 per person annually. • Transition federal homeless Continuum of Care funding towards long-term Housing First implementation. • Adopt policy to support use of CDBG and HOME federal funds to implement Housing First. • Adopt policy to focus on acquisition & rehab of SRO units.

  8. Recommendations • Leverage federal, state, community and private sector partnerships. • Address federal funding reductions by: • Monitor federal updates • Implement cost saving measures, and • Amend fiscal policy to support use of alternate funds City and County of Honolulu

  9. Recommendations • 4. Benchmark goals against 2013 PIT Count to place 15% of chronically homeless persons in housing by 12/31/15 City and County of Honolulu

  10. ACTION PLAN Housing is one of the First Steps to Treatment Some say it is the First Step to Treatment 768-4304 jyang@honolulu.gov Call me! City and County of Honolulu

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