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City and County of Honolulu
City & County of HonoluluMayor’s Housing First
ACTION PLAN
Jun YangCCH Office of Housing
Executive Director
City and County of Honolulu
Demographic of Honolulu’s Homeless Persons
Honolulu 2013 Point In Time Count
4,556 homeless persons1,465 unsheltered homeless
505 chronically homeless
Unsheltered:78% severely mentally ill55% chronic substance abusers29% both mentally ill and chronic substance abuser
City and County of Honolulu
Policy and Philosophy
Treatment First vs Housing First
• Transition through various levels of housing, shelters, transitional apartments
• Each move closer to independent housing• Treatment usually mandatory• Housing = Treatment
City and County of Honolulu
Results of Housing First
Quincy, MA = 50% reduction over four-year period
Norfolk, VA = 40% reduction over two-year period
Denver, CO = 36% reduction of two-year period
Portland, OR = 70% reduction of two-year period
Portland, ME = 49% reduction over three-year period
Wichita, KS = 61% reduction of four-year period
City and County of Honolulu
Recommendations
1. Adopt Housing First principles to address health & safety of unsheltered homeless.
a. Implement two-year pilot at scattered sites in Downtown, Waikiki & Waianae at estimate cost of $48,000 per person annually.
b. Transition federal homeless Continuum of Care funding towards long-term Housing First implementation.
c. Adopt policy to support use of CDBG and HOME federal funds to implement Housing First.
d. Adopt policy to focus on acquisition & rehab of SRO units.
City and County of Honolulu
Recommendations
2. Leverage federal, state, community and private sector partnerships.
3. Address federal funding reductions by:a. Monitor federal updatesb. Implement cost saving measures, andc. Amend fiscal policy to support use of alternate funds
City and County of Honolulu
Recommendations
4. Benchmark goals against 2013 PIT Count to place 15% of chronically homeless persons in housing by 12/31/15
City and County of Honolulu
ACTION PLAN
Housing is one of the First Steps to TreatmentSome say it is the First Step to Treatment
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