Montgomery County launches rapid planning process to prioritize homelessness prevention and rehousing

Tom, a consultant working with Home Solutions and Montgomery County, told a webinar audience that the county will run a fast-paced planning process to identify priority actions to prevent and reduce homelessness and move toward implementation in early 2026. The process centers on seven short “opportunity” briefs and a 30-day input window, Tom said.

The effort seeks to build prevention, speed rehousing and strengthen system coordination so homelessness is “brief and rare,” Tom said. He described the briefs as concise, curated summaries of promising strategies drawn from national, state and local examples, and said the team borrowed a graphic from the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness (Homeless Hub) to show the overall goal of rebalancing crisis response toward prevention.

Why it matters: the planning work will steer short-term priorities and potential funding or program efforts that Montgomery County’s Homeless Solutions Policy Board and the local Continuum of Care (CoC) may consider for adoption and…