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Steering committee outlines targets and data push in Concord's plan to end homelessness
Summary
The city's steering committee presented a five-part plan aiming to reduce homelessness and improve coordinated services; the group seeks funding for a project manager and better real-time data to drive outcomes.
Roseanne Haggerty, chair of Concord’s steering committee for the city's Plan to End Homelessness, presented the committee's five-part strategy and implementation progress to the City Council.
Haggerty said the committee set a measurable near-term goal to reduce homelessness by 80 people and to add roughly 100 permanent housing opportunities to meet that target. She said the July baseline used last year estimated roughly 320 individuals experiencing homelessness; more recent data the committee reviewed showed an increase to 418 individuals countywide, and the committee is working to reconcile reporting and improve the accuracy of the counts.
“First, our goal is to reduce overall homelessness by, 80 individuals, and, as as you'll hear as I go into the presentation a bit, that was based on the data we had at the time,” Haggerty told…
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