U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Improving Access to Mainstream Services for People Experiencing Chronic Homelessness, Palmer House, Chicago, Illinois, May 20-22, 2003

 

Slide 1:

HUD’s McKinney-Vento Programs: Moving Towards Ending Chronic Homelessness

John Garrity
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Office of Special Needs Assistance Program

Slide 2:

Continuum of Care

This slide shows the flow through the continuum of care from outreach intake assesment through to permanent housing or permanent supportive housing. The paths are as follows:

  • Outreach intake assessment to permanent housing or permanent supportive housing; or
  • Outreach intake assessment to emergency shelter:
    • to permanent housing or permanent supportive housing; or
    • to transitional housing to permanent housing or permanent supportive housing; or
    • to transitional housing to supportive services to permanent supportive housing.

Slide 3:

Establish a Community Planning Process

  • Organizational Structure
  • Inclusive Participation
  • All Subpopulations
  • Year Round Process
  • Active Involvement of All

Slide 4:

This slide shows an image with several items pointed towards the center which reads, "Planning/Coordinating Councils." The items are as follows:

  • Veterans Services
  • Mental Illness
  • Faith-based Organizations
  • Housing Developers
  • Service Providers
  • Homeless Persons
  • Neighborhood Groups
  • Local and State Government
  • Foundations
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Business

Slide 5:

Developing A Comprehensive System

  • Address All Sub-populations:
    • Chronically homeless
    • Veterans
    • Persons living with mental illness
    • Persons living with HIV/AIDS
    • Substance abusers
    • Victims of domestic violence
    • Other

Slide 6:

Gaps and Priorities

Need - Current Inventory = Continuum of Care Gaps

Slide 7:

Set Priorities for Funding

  • Consider local priorities
  • Consider national priorities
  • Balance need for new projects versus renewals
  • Prioritize Projects

Slide 8:

Supplemental Resources

  • Leverage HUD Project Funding
  • Secure Mainstream Funding
    • Other HUD housing programs
    • Other Federal supportive service programs
    • State and Local resources
    • Private, Foundation resources

Slide 9:

What We Know About Continuum of Care

  • Nearly 90% of the US population covered
  • Responsible for the development of over 170,000 total beds
  • Of those, 50,000 are permanent housing beds

Slide 10:

What We Know About Continuum of Care- (cont’d)

  • Has helped over 400,000 formerly homeless individuals and families obtain either transitional or permanent housing
  • Annually leverages nearly $2 in non-McKinney Act money for each $1 awarded in the competition

Slide 11:

HUD’s Strategy to End Chronic Homelessness

  • Use the engine of Continuum of Care to effect change
  • Require local chronic homelessness strategies with baselines
  • Generate more permanent housing
  • Incentivize use of mainstream service programs
  • Stimulate innovative solutions to chronic homelessness

Slide 12:

HUD’s Strategy to End Chronic Homelessness (cont’d)

  • Offer new TA opportunities to assist permanent housing providers
  • Offer new TA resources to stimulate use of mainstream service programs
  • New legislative proposals that will encourage use of existing resources and provide new targeted resources to address chronic homelessness
  • Target mainstream housing resources on chronic homelessness