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Pasco County lays out homelessness strategy, highlights Pasco Hope shelter outcomes and new outreach measures
Summary
County staff described a 'rare, brief, non‑recurring' strategy, presented PIT count data and shelter outcomes, and proposed outreach, anti‑panhandling messaging and referral improvements to reduce visible encampments and expand rehousing capacity.
Pasco County on Jan. 13 presented a coordinated plan to address homelessness focused on making homelessness "rare, brief and non‑recurring," combining prevention, rapid re‑housing and wraparound services.
James Walters, the county’s newly hired program administrator for homelessness, said the county is shifting emphasis from a housing‑only approach to an outcomes‑oriented model that pairs housing with mental‑health, employment and case‑management supports. "If we don't support the unhoused population through capacity, through providing services, and address all of the circumstances that led to someone being unhoused, then we have failed them and solved nothing," Walters said.
County staff reported the 2025 point‑in‑time (PIT) count identified 638 people experiencing…
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