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Overseeing Chicago’s 10-Yr Plan to End Homelessness

Overseeing Chicago’s 10-Yr Plan to End Homelessness. Betsy Benito Chicago Department of Housing NAEH Conference 2007. Taking on Systems Change: Mayor Daley’s Trend. Chicago Public Schools (1995) Chicago Housing Authority – Plan for Transformation (1999) Plan to End Homelessness (2003).

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Overseeing Chicago’s 10-Yr Plan to End Homelessness

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  1. Overseeing Chicago’s 10-Yr Plan to End Homelessness Betsy Benito Chicago Department of Housing NAEH Conference 2007

  2. Taking on Systems Change: Mayor Daley’s Trend • Chicago Public Schools (1995) • Chicago Housing Authority – Plan for Transformation (1999) • Plan to End Homelessness (2003)

  3. Making a Commitment: Staff and Financial Resources • Plan to End Homelessness – Five staff dedicated to the Plan’s implementation, led by Mayor’s Liaison on Homelessness and Supportive Housing • $10 million through the sale of the Skyway Tollway • Approximately $4 million annually through the Statewide Rental Housing Support Program

  4. Chicago’s Oversight of the Plan: The City’s Approach • Team (5 dedicated positions) to focus solely on the Plan’s Implementation • Work collaboratively with senior staff of Department of Human Services • Develop partnerships with other relevant departments who encounter the homeless • Collaboration with external partners that have responsibility for implementation

  5. Setting the Course, Taking Responsibility • Example: Chicago’s Implementation Schedule • Consensus across stakeholders on the goals • Relevant stakeholders take ownership of the goals or desired end product • Stakeholders can disagree or question another’s “means to the end”, but should not be the focus of oversight • As implementation occurs, accountability is to the public, funders, or other entity with leverage or authority

  6. Guiding Documents for Implementation • “Getting Housed, Staying Housed” (2002) • Program Models Chart (2003) • System Assumptions and Conversion Methodology (2004) • Implementation Schedule (2005) • These documents are key as reference and can be used to keep various stakeholders focused on the common goals

  7. How Funding can Drive Implementation • Public sector controls its own funds • Private foundations can coordinate with public funding • Continuum of care funding is both public and private and can be used to leverage change for plans to end homelessness

  8. Staffing to End Homelessness: Who and How Many? • Public sector • System thinkers but with patience for minutia • Problem-solving, boundary spanners • Track, coordinate, and integrate efforts of various projects • Private sector • Translation of policy into application and vice versa • Carryout projects that support goals of the Plan • Track, coordinate, and integrate efforts of various projects

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