City hears SafeMove Tulsa plan; consultants lay out three-year, $10Mto30M scale-up to reduce street homelessness

City officials and a consultant group presented the SafeMove Tulsa framework and system-model findings on Wednesday, outlining steps the city and partners would need to take to reduce street homelessness and accelerate exits to housing.

Mandy Chapman of Klutch Consulting, retained by local private-sector partners and working with Housing Solutions and the mayor—s office, told the committee the firm constructed a system model showing an annual inflow of about 3,100 adults into homelessness in Tulsa, that 74% are experiencing homelessness for the first time, and that many of those could be resolved with relatively low-cost, rapid interventions. Chapman said the modeling also identified a smaller group of people (about 500) who are likely to remain in homelessness more than a year without deeper interventions.

Key figures presented to councilors and staff included: a 64-day average…