What are the priorities of the Ten-Year Plan?
There are several key elements of the plan: • Prevent homelessness. We will work to make sure appropriate housing and supportive services are available to prevent homelessness and help people stay in their homes. Services include rent and utility assistance, job training, education assistance, health care, mental health counseling, foster care and chemical dependency treatment. This also includes working to ensure people are not discharged into homelessness from jails, hospitals or foster care. • Help people move people rapidly from homelessness to housing. We will place homeless people as quickly as possible in permanent housing and then help them to stabilize and function on their own by providing them with the supportive services they need. • Build the public and political will to end homelessness. We must expand our community’s commitment to ending homelessness by educating the public, tracking our successes and building on them, and establishing steady funding. • Increase the effi
