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City staff and Housing Forward seek ARPA support for $30M "Street to Home" push to halve unsheltered homelessness
Summary
Dallas officials briefed the Housing and Homelessness Solutions Committee on the "Street to Home" initiative — a $30 million mix of federal, local and private funding intended to reduce unsheltered homelessness by 50% — and requested a $5.6 million ARPA allocation to support 185 housing placements.
Christine Crosley, director of the Office of Homeless Solutions, and Sarah Khan, CEO of Housing Forward, briefed the Housing and Homelessness Solutions Committee on Jan. 28 on an expanded homelessness-response initiative called Street to Home.
The initiative builds on earlier city investments and a public–private program known as the Dallas Real Time Rapid Rehousing Initiative. Christine said the earlier effort began with an initial infusion of roughly $72 million that the presenters credited with enabling accelerated rehousing and other system improvements.
"This public private partnership with its unprecedented commitment of roughly $72,000,000 jump started our system into a no new fully aligned direction," Christine said.
The progress to date and the new goal
Sarah Khan described measurable progress: the city and partners have reduced unsheltered homelessness by about 24% since the earlier initiatives and are aiming for a 50% reduction through Street to Home. She said the city placed 27,100 people under the initial program goal and then exceeded rehousing…
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