Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness 11
Summary of All In: The Federal Strategic Plan to
Prevent and End Homelessness
FOUNDATION PILLARS
Lead With Equity
Strategies to address racial and other
disparities among people experiencing
homelessness:
1. Ensure federal eorts to prevent and
end homelessness promote equity and
equitable outcomes.
2. Promote inclusive decision-making and
authentic collaboration.
3. Increase access to federal housing and
homelessness funding for American
Indian and Alaska Native communities
living on and o tribal lands.
4. Examine and modify federal policies
and practices that may have created
and perpetuated racial and other
disparities among people at risk of or
experiencing homelessness.
Use Data and Evidence to Make
Decisions
Strategies to ground action in research,
quantitative and qualitative data, and
the perspectives of people who have
experienced homelessness:
1. Strengthen the federal government’s
capacity to use data and evidence to
inform federal policy and funding.
2. Strengthen the capacity of state and
local governments, territories, tribes,
Native-serving organizations operating
o tribal lands, and nonprofits to
collect, report, and use data.
3. Create opportunities for innovation
and research to build and disseminate
evidence for what works.
Collaborate at All Levels
Strategies to break down silos between
federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial
governments and organizations; public,
private, and philanthropic sectors;
and people who have experienced
homelessness:
1. Promote collaborative leadership at
all levels of government and across
sectors.
2. Improve information-sharing with
public and private organizations at the
federal, state, and local level.
SOLUTION PILLARS
Scale Housing and Supports That
Meet Demand
Strategies to increase supply of and
access to safe, aordable, and accessible
housing and tailored supports for people
at risk of or experiencing homelessness:
1. Maximize the use of existing federal
housing assistance.
2. Expand engagement, resources, and
incentives for the creation of new safe,
aordable, and accessible housing.
3. Increase the supply and impact
of permanent supportive housing
for individuals and families with
complex service needs—including
unaccompanied, pregnant, and
parenting youth and young adults.
4. Improve eectiveness of rapid
rehousing for individuals and families—
including unaccompanied, pregnant,
and parenting youth and young adults.
5. Support enforcement of fair housing
and combat other forms of housing
discrimination that perpetuate
disparities in homelessness.
6. Strengthen system capacity to address
the needs of people with disabilities
and chronic health conditions,
including mental health conditions
and/or substance use disorders.
7. Maximize current resources that can
provide voluntary and trauma-informed
supportive services and income
supports to people experiencing or at
risk of homelessness
.
8. Increase the use of practices grounded
in evidence in service delivery across
all program types.
Improve Eectiveness of
Homelessness Response Systems
Strategies to help response systems
meet the urgent crisis of homelessness,
especially unsheltered homelessness:
1. Spearhead an all-of-government eort
to end unsheltered homelessness.
2. Evaluate coordinated entry and
provide tools and guidance on eective
assessment processes that center
equity, remove barriers, streamline
access, and divert people from
homelessness.
3. Increase availability of and access
to emergency shelter—especially
non-congregate shelter—and other
temporary accommodations.
4. Solidify the relationship between CoCs,
public health agencies, and emergency
management agencies to improve
coordination when future public health
emergencies and natural disasters
arise.
5. Expand the use of “housing problem-
solving” approaches for diversion and
rapid exit.
6. Remove and reduce programmatic,
regulatory, and other barriers that
systematically delay or deny access
to housing for households with the
highest needs.
Prevent Homelessness
Strategies to reduce the risk of housing
instability for households most likely to
experience homelessness:
1. Reduce housing instability for
households most at risk of experiencing
homelessness by increasing availability
of and access to meaningful and
sustainable employment, education,
and other mainstream supportive
services, opportunities, and resources.
2. Reduce housing instability for
families, youth, and single adults with
former involvement with or who are
directly exiting from publicly funded
institutional systems.
3. Reduce housing instability among
older adults and people with
disabilities—including people with
mental health conditions and/or with
substance use disorders—by increasing
access to home and community-based
services and housing that is aordable,
accessible, and integrated.
4. Reduce housing instability for veterans
and service members transitioning from
military to civilian life.
5. Reduce housing instability for
American Indian and Alaska Native
communities living on and o tribal
lands.
6. Reduce housing instability among
youth and young adults.
7. Reduce housing instability among
survivors of human traicking, sexual
assault, stalking, and domestic violence,
including family and intimate partner
violence