Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness: Goals and Outcomes

1. Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness:Goals and Outcomes Jeff Natter Project Director, CEHKC

2. Background: homelessness hurts • More than 8,300 people are homeless in King County each night: • 5,630 single adults, including 2,500 that meet the definition of chronic homeless • 2,400 people in families • 350 youth and young adults, ages 24 and younger • Approximately 24,000 King County residents experience homelessness annually • In 2003, 77 people died in King County while homeless • Average age: 47

3. Background: homelessness costs • Millions spent on homeless in King County • Less expensive and better for community to house the homeless • University of Pennsylvania study: • Service cost savings of 40% annually by housing chronically homeless w/support services • Savings come in form of decreased incarceration, emergency room use, out-patient treatment, etc. • King County study (2003): • Cost spent on 40 highest users of Sobering Center and Crisis Triage Unit: $2,079,600 • 40% savings per year: $831,800

4. The Plan’s vision for the future Building on previous success, we will: • Create a new collaborative leadership structure, encompassing broad partners • Implement research-driven best practices • Increase homelessness preventionresources • Prioritize a “housing first” model • Develop support-enrichedprograms

5. Vision for the future (cont’d.) • Buildpolitical/public will • Increase affordable housing options • Address racial disproportionality in homeless populations • Enhance community-based access points to services • Bolster community re-entry systems • Secure current and develop new funding • Measure success and report outcomes

6. What’s different about the Plan • Broader range of partners invested in it • Originated from community, rather than top down • Includes detailed action steps for each major homeless population • Calls for cross-systems coordination • Reconfigures homeless system into housing system

7. Housing units needed

8. Cost to implement the Plan Actual costs yet to be determined • Estimates range from $680 million – $1 billion over ten years Funding to support Plan from: • Maintaining current public contribution • Capturing cost savings from expensive emergency services • Developing new funding streams

9. Key Strategies:Single adults • Prevention • Discharge planning • Housing • Maximize existing housing • Secure resources for total of 7,300 units • Improve service enrichment • Services • On-site support services • Make services easier to get

10. Key Strategies:Families • Prevention • Eviction prevention • Housing • Affordable housing that is not time-limited • Transitional housing with focus on permanent housing • Secure resources for 1,900 family units • Continue housing assistance after placement • Services • Network of services supporting increased income, education and self-sufficiency • Expand case management

11. Key Strategies:Youth and Young Adults • Prevention • Increase understanding about homeless youth • Partner with foster-care system • Housing • Network of information and human service centers • Explore changes in current housing models • Services • Increase availability/funding for support services • Address barriers to housing stability

12. Plan outcomes: Year 1 • CEH governance structure fully in place • Homeless data management system developed and implemented • Public awareness campaign groundwork • Government and other key public and private entities fully endorse Plan • System and cost mapping for plan implementation completed • Key stakeholders moving towards incorporating Plan objectives