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UNITED STATES INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON HOMELESSNESS
The Governors Statewide Interagency Council
on Homelessness Montgomery, Alabama March
25, 2008
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UNITED STATES INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON HOMELESSNESS

• THE NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP
• INVESTMENT, INNOVATION, AND RESULTS
• IN ENDING HOMELESSNESS

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UNITED STATES INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON HOMELESSNESS

• HOMELESSNESS
• 20 years of

• Increasing numbers
• Decreasing morale
• Expanded funding
• Limited results

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• PRESIDENTS MANAGEMENT AGENDA
• The Presidents Management Agenda calls for
  federal investments to be
• research and data-driven
• performance-based
• results-oriented

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UNITED STATES INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON HOMELESSNESS

• RESEARCH

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WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIVIDUALS
EXPERIENCING CHRONIC HOMELESSNESS?
UNITED STATES INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON
HOMELESSNESS UNPRECEDENTED RESEARCH/DATA

• Unaccompanied individuals
• Homeless for a year or more or multiple times
  over a several year period
• Disabled by addiction, mental illness, chronic
  physical illness or disability, or developmental
  disability
• Frequent histories of hospitalization, unstable
  employment, and incarceration
• Average age - early 40s

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INDIVIDUALS EXPERIENCING CHRONIC HOMELESSNESS
CONSUME A DISPROPORTIONATE AMOUNT OF HOMELESS
RESOURCES
UNITED STATES INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON
HOMELESSNESS UNPRECEDENTED RESEARCH/DATA
10 of the homeless population consumes over 50
of the resources
Other homeless subpopulations
Chronically homeless
Burt, Martha R., Laudan Y. Aron and Edgar Lee.
2001. Helping America's Homeless Emergency
Shelter or Affordable Housing? Washington, DC
Urban Institute Press. Kuhn, R. Culhane, D.P.
(1998). Applying cluster analysis to test of a
typology of homelessness Results from the
analysis of administrative data. The American
Journal of Community Psychology, 17 (1), 23-43.
Community Shelter Board. Rebuilding Lives A
New Strategy to House Homeless Men. Columbus,
OH Emergency Food and Shelter Board.
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INDIVIDUALS EXPERIENCING CHRONIC HOMELESSNESS
CONSUME A DISPROPORTIONATE AMOUNT OF MAINSTREAM
RESOURCES
UNITED STATES INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON
HOMELESSNESS UNPRECEDENTED RESEARCH/DATA

• Individuals experiencing chronic homelessness are
  heavy users of costly public resources,
  including
• Emergency medical services, ambulance, EMTs
• Primary health care, multi-day hospital
  stays
• Behavioral health care, psychiatric
  treatment, detox facilities
• Justice system Police, law enforcement,
  corrections, courts

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UNPRECEDENTED RESEARCH/DATA

• RESEARCH RESULTS ON FAMILY HOMELESSNESS
• Background on Families
• Much lower MH/SA rates
• Not different from poor housed families
• Relatively homogeneous
• SOURCE Culhane, et al., Patterns and Costs of
  Family Shelter Utilization Do Family
  Characteristics Matter?

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HOMELESSNESS UNPRECEDENTED RESEARCH/DATA

• Findings and Recommendations
• Most needy families get few system resources, and
  least needy families get most system resources
• Policies and programs driving long stays
• Characteristics of graduates may reflect
  selection effects of policies and programs
• Need for reform A new conceptual framework that
  matches families by need to interventions that
  support their independence e.g., Least needy
  families should get least expensive intervention,
  and vice versa

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• FEDERAL RESEARCH ON FAMILIES
• NEW Inventory of Federal programs with capacity
  to serve homeless families - _at_ www.usich.gov
• 73 programs across 11 Federal agencies
• Targeted and mainstream programs
• Identifies budget, eligible activities and
  recipients, and impediments to participation by
  homeless families
• Includes United States Departments of
• Agriculture Education
• Energy Health and Human Services
• Housing Urban Development Justice
• Labor Veterans Affairs
• Social Security Administration
• General Services Administration
• Corporation for National and Community Service

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• RESOURCES

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HOMELESSNESS UNPRECEDENTED PARTNERSHIP AND
POLITICAL WILL

• Constellating
• the National Partnership

• Every level of government
• Every element of the private sector

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HOMELESSNESS UNPRECEDENTED PARTNERSHIP AND
POLITICAL WILL
COUNCIL MEMBERS/FEDERAL PARTNERS
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs U.S.
Department of Agriculture U.S. Department of
Commerce U.S. Department of Defense U.S.
Department of Education U.S. Department of
Energy U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services U.S. Department of Homeland
Security U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development U.S. Department of the Interior U.S.
Department of Justice U.S. Department of
Labor U.S. Department of Transportation   USA
Freedom Corps United States Postal
Service Social Security Administration General
Services Administration Office of Management and
Budget Corporation for National and Community
Service White House Office of Faith Based and
Community Initiatives
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UNPRECEDENTED PARTNERSHIP AND POLITICAL WILL
Status of State Interagency Councils on
Homelessness (2008)

KEY Shaded States State
Interagency Councils
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City and County 10-Year Plan Update (March 2008)
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HOMELESSNESS UNPRECEDENTED PARTNERSHIP AND
POLITICAL WILL
327 and counting
200
300
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KEY SHAREHOLDERS IN INCLUSIVE PARTNERSHIPS IN
DEVELOPING AND SUPPORTING 10-YEAR PLANS
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HOMELESSNESS UNPRECEDENTED PARTNERSHIP AND
POLITICAL WILL
Agency / Department Heads
Mayor/ County Executive
Law Enforcement Officials
Hospital Administrators
Librarians
Federal Agencies
State Government
Individuals experiencing Homelessness
Business Civic Leaders
Non-profits / foundations
Faith-based Organizations
General Public
Parks Recreation Departments
Academia
United Way/ Chambers of Commerce
Housing Developers Service Providers
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HOMELESSNESS UNPRECEDENTED PARTNERSHIP

• AMERICAS ROAD HOME
• Unprecedented 12-point agreement established by
  Mayors and County officialsin Denver in November
  2007
• intergovernmental partnership
• jurisdictional leadership
• sustainability of resources and results
• Now signed by 250 elected leaders from across the
  country.

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HOMELESSNESS UNPRECEDENTED PARTNERSHIP AND
POLITICAL WILL
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR PARTNERS IN ENDING
CHRONIC HOMELESSNESS
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HOMELESSNESS UNPRECEDENTED PARTNERSHIP AND
POLITICAL WILL

• PARTNERSHIP
• TRUMPS
• PARTISANSHIP

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UNITED STATES INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON
HOMELESSNESS INNOVATIVE BUSINESS THINKING
INFORMING 10-YEAR STRATEGIES

• INNOVATIVE BUSINESS THINKING INFORMING 10-YEAR
  STRATEGIES
• The Tipping Point How Little Things Can Make a
  Big Difference
• Good to Great
• The Innovators Dilemma

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HOMELESSNESS
INNOVATION INFUSED
GOOD . . .TO BETTER . . . TO GREAT
PRESIDENTS MANAGEMENT AGENDA
RESEARCH ON HOMELESSNESS
PROJECT HOMELESS CONNECT
ASSERTIVE COMMUNITY TREATMENT TEAMS (ACT)
JURISDICTIONALLY-LED, COMMUNITY-BASED 10-YEAR
PLANS
PSYCHOTROPIC MEDS - NO WRONG DOOR
COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS STUDIES
STREET ENUMERATION BASELINES
HENNEPIN COUNTY HOMELESS PREVENTION/RAPID EXIT
THERAPEUTIC COURTS HOMELESS BEHAVIORAL
HEALTH COURTS
HOUSING FIRST PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING
CRISIS INTERVENTION TEAMS (CIT)
HOUSING SEARCH/STABILIZATION
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HOMELESSNESS UNPRECEDENTED RESOURCES AND
INVESTMENTS
TARGETED FEDERAL HOMELESS ASSISTANCE INVESTMENTS
FY 2001- 2009 (in millions)
Source OMB
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HOMELESSNESS UNPRECEDENTED RESOURCES AND
INVESTMENTS
TARGETED FEDERAL HOMELESS ASSISTANCE INVESTMENTS
FY 2001 - 2009 (in millions)
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FEDERAL INTERAGENCY AND TARGETED INITIATIVES

• FEDERAL FUNDING FOR PREVENTION FOR SPECIAL
  POPULATIONS including
• Reentering prisoners
• Aging out foster care youth
• Individuals needing substance abuse treatment

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FEDERAL MAINSTREAM RESOURCES
CONSUMER-CENTRIC MAINSTREAM RESOURCES including
benefits, health care, and education ?
Medicaid ? Food Stamps ? SSI/SSDI ?
TANF ? EITC? Veterans benefits ? Veterans
health care
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FEDERAL MAINSTREAM RESOURCES
EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT (EITC) The maximum
federal EITC benefit for the 2007 tax year is
4,716 for families with two or more children and
2,853 for families with one child.  Workers
without a qualifying child also may receive an
EITC of 428 in 2007. 23 Total number of
states with State EITCs. Annual state EITC
benefits will now exceed 1.5 billion. Federal
TANF regulations permit TANF money to be used to
fund refundable tax credits.   According to 2003
HHS data, 10 states use TANF to fund their state
income tax credit programs. Former HUD
Assistant Secretary up to 15 of eligible
families with children can be removed from the
worst case housing needs category with EITC -
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FEDERAL MAINSTREAM RESOURCES
CREATING ACCESS TO MAINSTREAM RESOURCES Miami
Mayor Manny Diaz Launched City's 2008 Earned
Income Tax Credit and tax preparation campaign,
which is estimated to have previously secured
over 58 million in EITC returns and more than
142 million in total refunds for over 9,200
residents each year. Arkansas Officials
estimate 94 of benefits not being accessed for
eligible residents of the state were from federal
benefit programs. ? New joint initiative of the
State of Arkansas and Departments of Workforce
Services and Human Services, and the Arkansas
Interfaith Conference (AIC) ? 7 counties will
create access points for screening and filing at
community centers, public libraries, churches and
other sites that will reach residents at
convenient locations and hours Ohio In just 18
months a public-private initiative from the Ohio
Governor's office helped more than 7,500 Ohio
residents access over 9 million in tax credits
and other work supports, using electronic filing
for federal and state taxes, Medicaid, energy
assistance, Food Stamps, and more.
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HOMELESSNESS UNPRECEDENTED RESOURCES AND
INVESTMENTS
LEVERAGING OF STATE, CITY, and PRIVATE SECTOR
INVESTMENT RESULTS Since 2003 over 41,620
units/tenancies of targeted permanent supportive
housing have been created or are in development
toward the goal of 150,000 such opportunities
for persons experiencing chronic homelessness.
Since 2003 these same 100 State and City
jurisdictions have leveraged a total of over
3.46 billion in State, local, and private
investment and commitments toward the goals of
their 10-Year Plans, including the goal of ending
chronic homelessness. This includes investment
for housing and services, as well as prevention
activities.
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UNITED STATES INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON
HOMELESSNESS ECONOMICS OF HOMELESSNESS
POLITICAL WILL AND HOMELESSNESS

• Moral reasons to respond to homelessness
• Spiritual reasons to respond to homelessness
• Humanitarian reasons to respond to homelessness
• Economic consequences of homelessness

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HOMELESSNESS UNPRECEDENTED RESEARCH/DATA
INSIGHTS FROM COST STUDIES
Maine
Seattle
Portland
Minnesota
Boston
Minneapolis
California
SE CT
Quincy
New York
Chicago
Salt Lake City
Dayton
Reno
San Francisco
Richmond
Denver
Indianapolis
North Carolina
Santa Barbara
Louisville
Asheville, NC
Los Angeles
South Carolina
Atlanta
Maricopa County
San Diego
Jacksonville
Waco
Gainesville
Completed Studies
San Antonio
Lee County
Studies in Progress
Broward County
Key West
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HOMELESSNESS UNPRECEDENTED RESEARCH/DATA
INSIGHTS FROM COST STUDIES BOSTON
The Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program
tracked 119 persons experiencing chronic
homelessness for 5 years and discovered that they
had more than 18,000 emergency room visits at
an average cost of 1000 per visit.
Boston
Source Boston Health Care for the Homeless
Program
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INSIGHTS FROM COST STUDIES RENO, NEVADA
Two frustrated police officers tracked the costs
of two chronically homeless individuals, two of
whom accounted for 100,000 and 120,000 in
hospital expenses in less than a year. The
officers determined that one individual
Million Dollar Murray had cost more than 1
million in hospitalization, incarceration, detox
treatments, and ambulance rides.
Reno
We spent 1 million not to do anything about
him. Reno P.D. Officer Patrick OBryan
Source Reno Police Department, Downtown
Enforcement Team
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HOMELESSNESS UNPRECEDENTED RESEARCH/DATA
INSIGHTS FROM COST STUDIES SAN DIEGO,
CALIFORNIA I
The University of California at San Diego
followed 15 chronically homeless street people
for 18 months, tracking their use of behavioral
health acute systems, mental health and substance
abuse services, law enforcement interventions on
the streets, and temporary periods of
incarceration.
TOTAL COST 3 MILLION, 200,000/PER PERSON
San Diego
Source UCSD Medical Center, 1998
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INSIGHTS FROM COST STUDIES QUINCY,
MASSACHUSETTS COST SAVINGS
In conjunction with its first shelter closing
resulting from Housing First success under its
jurisdictional 10-Year Plan, Quincy researchers
found 77 decrease in number of inpatient
hospitalizations 44 decrease in hospital
days Resulting in 51,750 in hospital
savings 86 reduction in psychiatric
hospitalizations 83 decrease in ER use
Source Quincy Housing First Final Report,
September 2007
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HOMELESSNESS UNPRECEDENTED RESEARCH/DATA
INSIGHTS FROM COST STUDIES PORTLAND, MAINE COST
SAVINGS
Researchers tracked 99 chronically homeless
individuals who moved to permanent supportive
housing in Portland, Maine. 50 reduction in
service costs in ambulance and emergency room
use, jail nights, and police contacts after
housing placement, dropping from an average of
over 28,000 per person annually to 14,000,
Health care costs decreased 59 after housing
placement. Mental health care costs decreased
41. Treatment utilization increased by
35. 497,042 Health care savings 128,373
Emergency room savings (decrease of 62) 255,421
Inpatient hospitalization savings (decrease of
77)
Source Cost of Homelessness Greater Portland,
September 2007.
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HOMELESSNESS UNPRECEDENTED RESEARCH/DATA
INSIGHTS FROM COST STUDIES PORTLAND,
OREGON COST SAVINGS
Portland
Central City Concern followed 35 homeless
individuals placed in housing supported by ACT
teams. Pre-enrollment health care and
incarceration costs per person
42,075 Post-enrollment health care and
incarceration costs supportive housing cost per
person 25,776 Annual cost savings per person
16,299
Source Estimated cost savings following
enrollment in the Community Engagement Program,
Central City Concern, 2006
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HOMELESSNESS UNPRECEDENTED RESEARCH/DATA
Costs of Permanent Supportive Housing vs. Costs
of Chronic Homelessness in Health Care and Law
Enforcement Systems
Low 13,000
High 25,000
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• RESOURCES
• STATE INTERAGENCY COUNCILS ON HOMELESSNESS

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STATES PARTNERSHIP, INVESTMENT, RESULTS

• NORTH CAROLINA
• 2003 North Carolina becomes first state to
  designate a state point person for homeless
  policy and support and coordination of States
  Interagency Council for Coordinating Homeless
  Programs (ICCHP)
• 2006 "Housing 400" Initiative creates 400 units
  of independent and supportive housing for very
  low income persons with disabilities, affordable
  for persons at SSI income levels
• 2006 ICCHP Leadership Summit for all 10-Year
  Plan leaders includes new resource opportunities
  to strengthen local 10-Year Plan efforts,
  including 45,000 for TA for 10-Year Plan
  communities to adopt Project Homeless Connect
  innovation by covering start-up costs, and 2.1
  million to fund 3 pilot sites to create Housing
  Support Teams to work with people who have a
  history of homelessness and cycling through
  publicly funded systems

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• MINNESOTA
• 2004 Governor unveils 10-Year Business Plan
  partnering Department of Human Services,
  Department of Corrections, and Minnesota Housing
  Finance Agency with 10 million investment in
  supportive housing services for 1,500 Minnesotans
  in 37 counties and six tribal reservations for 2
  years
• 2006-2007 budget supports 23.3 million for
  Homeless Prevention and Supportive Housing
  activities including new emergency response
  system that shifts the focus to prevention of
  homelessness and rapid move to housing
• AND record 17.5 million bond for permanent
  supportive housing, transitional housing, and new
  supportive housing for veterans
• AND supplemental appropriations for additional
  re-entry discharge in the Department of
  Corrections
• 2007 MN progress report shows results exceed
  goals in Years 1-3

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STATES PARTNERSHIP, INVESTMENT, RESULTS

• MASSACHUSETTS
• 2005 Lt. Governor/ICH Chair announces rapid
  response housing initiative for 500 SROs in one
  year to move persons in shelter to housing
• 2007 New joint Executive-Legislative Commission
  charged to create 5-year state plan begins work
  chaired by State Housing Director Tina Brooks and
  State Rep. Byron Rushing who led legislative
  advocacy for the commission
• 2008 "The right resources to the right people at
  the right time." Commission characterizes new
  strategy for converting existing resources and
  ending homelessness through new statewide plan,
  including use of subpopulation strategies
• Plan sets goal of 200 housing units annually for
  5 years of Single Person Occupancy (SPO) housing
  and 800 new family units annually - 500 in
  private developments and 300 in new public
  housing
• Commonwealth commits to invest 10 million to
  establish a pool of flexible resources to develop
  and test new strategies

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STATES PARTNERSHIP, INVESTMENT, RESULTS

• WASHINGTON
• 2005 Homeless Housing and Assistance Act sets
  goal of reducing homelessness in the state by 50
  by July 2015
• Directs resources to projects consistent with the
  state and local 10-Year Plans that will reduce
  homelessness demonstrate cost savings employ
  evidence-based approaches are replicable and
  include strong performance measurements
• 2006 State reports correction programs
  re-integrating veteransare working
• 2007 State announces nearly 11 million in
  state Homeless Grant Assistance Program (HGAP)
  awards to help fund 3-year model projects and
  programs in nine counties implementing 10-Year
  Plans
• 2007 State ICH undertakes new initiatives to
  facilitate successful offender re-entry and
  prevent youth exiting the foster care system from
  becoming homeless

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STATES PARTNERSHIP, INVESTMENT, RESULTS

• NEW YORK STATE
• 2005 State announces New York/New York III
  50-50 partnership agreement between City and
  State to invest 1 billion over 10 years for
  9,000 units of permanent supportive housing
  eight state agencies are partnered to the plan

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STATES PARTNERSHIP, INVESTMENT, RESULTS

• OREGON
• 2006 Governor Kulongoski signs new Executive
  Order establishing the Governor's Ending
  Homelessness Advisory Council. The Council is to
  serve as the state's interagency council on
  homelessness establishing state-wide strategies
  to end homelessness.
• The 24-member Ending Homelessness Advisory
  Council (EHAC) will serve as the designated state
  entity in the fight to end homelessness.
• EHAC charged to develop a state 10-Year Plan and
  collaborate on implementing local plans to end
  homelessness. The Council will also recommend
  needed changes in the law to the Governor and the
  legislature and prepare an annual report that
  summarizes Oregon's progress.
• Over the prior two years state interagency
  cooperation moved forward through the work of the
  federally supported Oregon State Policy Academy
  on Ending Chronic Homelessness. This group will
  continue to meet and serve the new executive
  level Council.
• Statewide 10-Year Plan development is spurred by
  USICH convened Oregon Leadership Summit and State
  support.

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• KENTUCKY
• 2006 Kentucky Governor unveils 10-Year Business
  plan calling for Kentucky Housing Corporation to
  develop 2,400 permanent supportive housing units
  
• 2006 Based on research, Governor calls for
  establishing 10 housing recovery centers
  throughout Kentucky for homeless and re-entry
  populations- Recovery Kentucky will include 1,000
  new transitional housing units
• 2007 State opens first Recovery Kentucky site on
  donated land in joint effort by the Governor's
  Office of Local Development, the Department of
  Corrections, the Office of Drug Control Policy,
  and the Kentucky Housing Corporation.

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• MICHIGAN
• 2006 Governor's leadership drives creation of
  10-Year Plans for all 83 Michigan counties
  unveiled at statewide Summit
• State housing funds are tied to 10-Year Plans by
  Michigan State Housing Development Authority
  (MSHDA)
• New planning grants for innovations, including
  Project Homeless Connect
• 10 million in federal HOME and state housing
  dollars to 8 communities for new permanent
  supportive housing programs for persons
  experiencing chronic homelessness

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• WEST VIRGINIA
• 2007 Governor Manchin re-issues Executive Order
  for strengthened and expanded State Interagency
  Council and directs the Council to
• Work with the U.S. Interagency Council on
  Homelessness
• Increase focus on prevention
• Create a statewide plan in 2008 with short and
  long term strategies to end homelessness
• Move to Plan implementation as next step

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• UTAH
• 2003 State unveils Business Plan to end
  homelessness
• 2005 State sets goal to develop 12 Local
  Homeless Coordinating Committees chaired by
  mayors or county officials
• Launches initiative to develop chronic
  homelessness pilot - first pilot in Salt Lake
  City places 17 chronically homeless individuals
  in existing housing inventory using the "housing
  first" model with supportive services
• 2007 State reports eight pilots are underway and
  500 units identified

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• MAINE
• 2007 Governor John Baldacci and Point Person
  Nancy Fritz, Director of Homeless Initiatives,
  undertake new effort to recalibrate Maines
  existing state plan, one of the first in the
  nation.
• 2008 Governor re- affirms his commitment to
  launching a targeted housing initiative for
  homeless women
• Maine action steps leverage 1 million Kresge
  Foundation award to Portlands Preble Street
  initiatives

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• NEW HAMPSHIRE
• 2006 New Hampshire releases new state plan
  calling for A Home for Everyone, through
  development of 400 to 600 permanent supportive
  housing units over the next 10 years. Plan
  emphasizes prevention, wrap around health and
  human services, consumer outreach and advocacy,
  and service integration to eliminate duplication
  and close service loopholes.
• Governor to convene a working group that will
  include state leaders and government officials
  for implementation of a cost savings plan,
  changes to state regulations regarding benefit
  rules, establishment of a disability housing
  registry, initiating collaboration between the
  state's housing and supportive systems, and
  ensuring homeless children stay in school by
  connecting them with a Homeless School Liaison.

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• COLORADO
• 2007 Governor Ritter signs new Executive Order
  to expand State Interagency Council to
• make "cross- agency and community cooperation the
  norm
• create and implement evidence-based plans to
  address homelessness
• streamline funding to leverage existing resources
  more effectively
• facilitate "tighter partnerships and linkages"
  among service providers
• assemble accurate data upon which strategies and
  policies should be based and outcomes can be
  measured, and identify best practices
• Governor expands Medicaid coverage to aging out
  foster care youth
• Governor signs as his first bill Bridging the
  Gap - a consumer-driven foster care family
  preservation measure designed, written, and
  advocated for by foster care youth

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• CALIFORNIA
• State Social Service Department undertakes
  intergovernmental and interagency initiatives
  replicable nationally
• 2007 State undertakes intergovernmental
  initiative with federal and state partners to
  create SSI access for aging out foster care youth
  with disabilities youth cannot apply for SSI
  while in foster care
• 2008 Federal and state partners reach
  administrative resolution allowing application
  and determination for target youth to ensure
  receipt of SSI upon age-out
• -------------
• 2008 Federal, state, and county partners
  announce statewide implementation of pilot
  project to ensure improved access to SSI and
  medical exams for homeless persons by providing
  real-time exams and needed supports such as
  transportation at time of application

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• NORTH DAKOTA
• 2004 Governor John Hoeven revitalizes State
  Interagency Council and directs it to create a
  state 10-Year Plan to End Long Term Homelessness
  by encouraging and working with local communities
  and reservations to develop local plans that
  would be collectively rolled up into a
  statewide plan.
• 2006 Fargo becomes the first North Dakota city
  to develop a 10-Year Plan
• 2006 ND Housing Finance Agency offers technical
  assistance to encourage and assist other
  communities and reservations to develop 10-Year
  Plans in areas with the largest concentrations of
  homelessness in the state
• 2007 2008 Plans are established in Bismarck,
  Minot, Jamestown with Spring 2008 statewide
  roll-out planned

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• HAWAII
• 2005 Governor Lingle unveils results-oriented
  State 10-Year Business Plan and proposes new tax
  credit, housing development, and reentry
  resources
• 2006 Governor announces new 20 million
  initiative under State Plan and gains 400 budget
  increase in 2 years with 40 million in new
  resources including 31.6 million to repair
  existing public housing and to new emergency
  shelters and transitional housing and over 8
  million in additional resources for the Rental
  Housing Trust Fund by increasing the Fund's share
  of receipts from the real estate conveyance tax.

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• MONTANA
• 2007 Governor Schweitzer appoints State Council
  and charges the members to review, modify and
  adopt the states 10-Year Plan, and begin
  implementation. Montana reported more than a 30
  reduction in chronic homelessness from 2005 to
  2006.
• Goals are to increase access to mainstream
  services prevent homelessness by providing
  targeted, flexible one-time assistance for
  families coordinate discharge from institutions
  with housing and services support
  implementation of a social enterprise creating
  and/or retaining low-income housing geared to
  meeting the needs of those living below 30 AMI
  developing sustainable resources specifically
  targeted to ending homelessness examine best
  practices and conduct cost benefit analysis and
  measure success and document savings.
• The state's initiatives include partnership with
  the City of Billings, the largest population
  center, where the Council sponsored a series of
  full-day community meetings that ultimately
  resulted in the appointment of the Mayor's
  Committee on Homelessness . Under the
  state-targeted federal interagency SOAR (SSI/SSDI
  Outreach, Access and Recovery) initiatives,
  Montana has three SOAR trainers, and convened a
  Project Homeless Connect in 2007.

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• RESULTS

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HOMELESSNESS UNPRECEDENTED RESEARCH/DATA

• Federal study cites fewer homeless
• WASHINGTON The federal government plans to
  release a report Wednesday that shows a national
  decline in the number of chronically homeless
  adults who live on the streets or in emergency
  shelters.
• "These are the numbers we've been waiting to hear
  for a quarter of a century," says Philip Mangano,
  executive director of the U.S. Interagency
  Council on Homelessness, which coordinates
  federal efforts.
• USA TODAY, November 7, 2007

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INSIGHTS FROM COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS
AN ACCELERATING NATIONAL MOVEMENT REDUCES
NUMBERS OF CHRONICALLY HOMELESS 10-Year Plans
encouraged by the Council are a burst of effort
that has buoyed a field long accustomed to
futility and part of an accelerating national
movement that has reduced the numbers of the
chronically homeless. The New York Times, June
2006
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HOMELESS IN AMERICA CAN URBAN STREET
HOMELESSNESS BE ENDED? Can urban street
homelessness be ended? . . .the Bush White
House argues that the answer is yes and is
putting substantial effort and resources (over
4 billion annually) into proving it. The Wall
Street Journal, January 18, 2007
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INSIGHTS FROM COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS
METRICS OF BUSINESS IS THE LANGUAGE OF HOPE
TARGETING THE TOUGHEST CUSTOMERS OF ALL
Here's how hard-headed business practices can
help the world's wealthiest nation deal with the
hard-core homeless . . . The market research is
done the usual way asking what they want. The
typical response is emphatic . . . What they want
is a room of their own. As with any business
plan, a lot has to go right. But while applying
the metrics of business to homelessness may sound
icily clinical, ultimately this is the language
of hope. Fortune Magazine, 2006
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DEMOCRATS SAY ADMINISTRATION PLAN OFFERS
SOLUTIONS . . . A number of big-city
Democratic mayors who have often been harshly
critical of Bushs domestic policies say the new
approach offers practical solutions to a problem
that has vexed them for decades.
Bloomberg.com, June 15, 2006
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INSIGHTS FROM COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS . . .
MILLION DOLLAR MURRAY Why problems like
homelessness may be easier to solve than to
manage By Malcolm Gladwell . . .enormous sums
of money are already being spent on the
chronically homeless, and . . . the kind of money
it would take to solve the problem could well be
less than the kind of money it took to ignore
it. So far, the Council has convinced more than
two hundred cities to radically reevaluate their
policy for dealing with the homeless. The New
Yorker, February 13, 2006
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INSIGHTS FROM COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS . . .
STABLE HOUSING CURBS HUGE COSTS CHRONIC
HOMELESS IN INTERVENTION SPOTLIGHT . . .some
researchers, government agencies, and advocates
for the homeless began to take a hard look at the
data . . .if the chronic homeless were given
intensive intervention that included some form of
stable, safe housing, the savings created from
curbing the huge costs generated by these
individuals could be used to help other homeless
individuals. Journal of the American Medical
Association, May 24/31, 2006
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INSIGHTS FROM COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS . . .
SAVE MONEY SAVE LIVES The consequences of
Administration efforts to date are amazing -
significant percentage drops in such cities as
San Francisco, Philadelphia, Miami, Dallas,
Denver and Portland, Oregon . . . You save money
this way, but here's the real gold You save
lives. President Bush, the stealth
humanitarian, Scripps Howard News
Services January 9, 2007
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INSIGHTS FROM COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS . . .
MOVING THE HOMELESS OUT OF SHELTERS, INTO
HOMES A new approach is being heralded not only
as more successful in fighting chronic
homelessness, but more cost effective From
New York to Dallas to Seattle, cities across the
country are focusing not just on emergency
shelter, but on getting the homeless homes. As a
result, they're seeing reductions in the numbers
of chronically homeless people on their streets
and in their shelters . . . The federal
government, under Mangano's leadership, is also
asking for a record a 4.4 billion dollars in
2008 to spur the development of more
supportive-housing complexes. Christian
Science Monitor, August 2007
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the resource for states and localities
SOLVING THE TOUGHEST, MOST VISIBLE, AND COSTLY
PART OF THE PROBLEM The mission is to cajole
Governors, Mayors and County Executives into not
just embracing but owning the elusive goal of
ending chronic homelessness. What matters more
than rhetoric and the planning is the new
thinking behind it all focusing on the toughest
and most visible part of the problem the
hard-core street homeless, who cost taxpayers
dearly in hospital and prison stays. Abolitioni
st Apostle On a mission to end chronic
homelessness, November 2006
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UNDERSTANDING THE HIDDEN COSTS OF
HOMELESSNESS GOOD SAMARITAN Editorial Part
of the rationale for these new investments was
based on an enlightened understanding of the
hidden costs of homelessness. But the White
House also concluded that policies needed to move
in a new direction. The Washington Times,
March 23, 2006
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INSIGHTS FROM COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS . . .
EDITORIAL - DOING THE MATH TO REDUCE
HOMELESSNESS What cities are discovering is
that it's more cost-efficient - and humane - to
provide these individuals a long-term residence
up front and assign them visiting case workers,
rather than allowing them to rack up hefty tabs
as frequent fliers to city and private
services. Christian Science Monitor Editorial,
June 2006
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INSIGHTS FROM COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS . . .
SOMETHING THAT WORKS One factor now motivating
local officials is a realization of how much the
homeless are costing them . . . The important
thing is that somebody has finally found
something that works. Give 'em Shelter Good
news for the homeless. by William Tucker, July
3, 2006
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INSIGHTS FROM COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS . . .
TACKLING CHRONIC HOMELESSNESS IS RIGHT
APPROACH For once, there seems to be some
unanimity of purpose between the center and the
cities. The U.S. Conference of Mayors has
endorsed the Ten-Year Plan, reflecting a change
of emphasis at the local level, too. Cities such
as Philadelphia, New York and Chicago have
started to try to move their chronic homeless
from shelters to supportive housing of one sort
or another . . . . . . homelessness is not
really one problem, but two one brought on
usually by disability, the other largely by
economic misfortune. Chronic homelessness may be
the right one to tackle first. Homelessness -
Gimme a roof over my head A huge problem with,
at last, a solution? August 2003
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RESULTS-ORIENTED 20 Decrease in Homeless
Veterans Follows Previous Decrease

2008 VA reports a 20 percent decrease in the
population of homeless veterans, with fewer than
154,000 veterans homeless. This report follows a
2006 VA report that the number of homeless
veterans had dropped below 200,000 for the first
time in a decade.
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UNPRECEDENTED NATIONAL RESULTSIN REDUCING STREET
AND CHRONIC HOMELESSNESS
12 Decrease in chronic homelessness across the
nation 2005 175,914 2006 155,623 "We will
continue to help the most vulnerable in our
society find housing and other services as we
work towards the President's goal of eliminating
chronic homelessness." White House Press
Statement Local data based on reports from a
single day from 3,900 cities and counties, of
which more than 1,500 reported a decrease over
one year.
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HOMELESSNESS RESULTS IN REDUCING STREET AND
CHRONIC HOMELESSNESS DECREASES FROM LOCALLY
REPORTED DATA
Nashua 64
Duluth/St. Louis County 15
Tacoma 65
Seattle/King County 20
Portland 49
Springfield, MA 39
Portland/ Multnomah County 70
Chicago 9
Quincy, MA 55
Danbury, CT10
Madison, WI 38
Contra Costa County 35
NYC 25
Philadelphia 50
St. Louis 34
DC 6.5
San Francisco 38
Nashville 21
Denver 36
Norfolk, VA 40
Asheville/Buncombe County 23
Monterey, CA 11
Raleigh/Wake County, NC 11
Shreveport 15
Fort Worth/Tarrant County 42
Augusta, GA 16
Tucson 6
Montgomery 14
Gainesville/Alachua County 18
Dallas 43
Atlanta 8
Mobile/Baldwin County 26
For the year 2006 2007.
Miami 50
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