Homeless Housing - Plans for Ending Chronic Homelessness
Contents
- About Plans to End Chronic Homelessness
- Local Government Planning Efforts
- Information Resources
- Related MRSC Pages
About Plans to End Chronic Homelessness
Legislation passed in the 2005 session establishes a statewide homeless housing program with the goal of ending homelessness in Washington State within the next 10 years. Chapter 484, Laws of 2005 (ESSHB 2163) (
68 KB) provides that the Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development (DCTED) and local governments that choose to participate must create and implement a program to reduce homelessness by 50% within 10 years. The program establishes a $10 additional surcharge on document recording, a state competitive grant program, and a statewide homeless census. (See Final Bill Report for ESSHB 2163)
Chapter 485, Laws of 2005 (SSB 5767) ( 10 KB) provides that counties that opt to participate in the Homeless Housing Program must create a task force to develop a ten-year plan, addressing short and long term housing solutions for the homeless. As needed, each task force must adopt guidelines for establishing emergency shelters, temporary encampments, and supportive housing. Counties that already have an existing group focused on homelessness are not required to create a new task force. Counties may decline to participate in the program by forwarding a resolution to DCTED, in which case the department will contract with a nonprofit entity to develop the county's plan. Local governments that choose to participate may develop their 10-year plans individually, create a joint plan with other local governments, or contract with another entity to develop the plan. (See Final Bill Report for SSB 5767)
A number of Washington jurisdictions have developed strategic plans to end homelessness that are linked on this page. Also linked are general resources addressing the topic of strategic planning to end homelessness.
Local Government Planning Efforts
Adams County
- Adams County Emergency Food and Shelter Board designated as the Task Force to develop the county's ten year plan to reduce homelessness, Board of Commissioners Meeting, 8-15-05
Chelan- Douglas County
- Ten -Year Plan to Reduce Homelessness In Chelan & Douglas Counties, draft ( 290 KB)
- Exhibits ( 121 KB) - via CTED Housing-Information.net
- Exhibits (
Clark County
- Clark County 10-Year Homeless Plan ( 348 KB) Updated August 2007
King County
- Committee to End Homelessness in King County
- A Roof Over Every Bed in King County: Our Community's Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness
- Bellevue Resolution No. 7322 ( 116 KB), passed 1-17-06
- Bellevue Resolution No. 7322 (
- Homeless Assistance Programs - King County Department of Community and Human Services
- Tent City - Temporary Homeless Shelters in King County - MRSC
- Seattle Resolution No. 30758 endorses the goals of "A Roof Over Every Bed in King County: Our Community's Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness" and states the city's intent to work with other organizations and governmental entities in the implementation of this plan, passed 4-11-05
Pierce County
- Pierce County Resolution No. R2005-154 ( 66 KB)- Adopts the road home: homeless housing and assistance plan to reduce homelessness by fifty percent in 2015
- The Road Home: A Ten Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness in Pierce County ( 1.07 MB), Pierce County
- Tacoma/Pierce County Coalition for the Homeless
Spokane County
- City of Spokane News Release 3-22-05 - City, Community Works on 10-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness
- City of Spokane 10-Year Plan to End Chronic, Street, & Emergency Sheltered Homelessness
Whatcom County - Bellingham
- Whatcom County Coalition for the Homeless - Bellingham Planning & Community Development
- A Way Back Home: Ten Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness in Whatcom County ( 77 KB), City of Bellingham and Low Income Housing Institute
- Whatcom County Resolution No. 2005-077 ( 1.54 MB)- Adopts the Whatcom County 10-year Homeless Housing Plan as recommended by the Whatcom County Advisory Committee, passed 12-13-05 (copy of plan attached, entitled: A Home for Everyone, Whatcom County 10-Year Homeless Housing Plan, Phase 1)
- A Home for Everyone 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness in Whatcom County ( 485 KB), Phase III, January 2008
Yakima County
- A 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness in Yakima County ( 1.83 MB), Homeless Network of Yakima County, 2006
- Yakima County Resolution 66-2005 ( 57 KB) - County endorses the Homeless Network Plan, passed 1-05
- Yakima (City) Proclamation ( 85 KB) -Supports of the goals and strategies expressed in the Homeless Network of Yakima County Ten Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness, 2-15-05.
Information Resources
- Ending Chronic Homelessness: Strategies for Action - U.S. Health and Human Services, March 2003
- Homeless Programs - Washington State Community Trade and Economic Development (CTED)
- Homeless Plan - Includes State Ten-Year Homeless Plan & 2008 Annual Report
- Homelessness Working to End Chronic Homelessness - Health and Human Services, The Faith-Based and Community Initiative, - Changing Lives - Targeting Human Needs
- Ten Year Plan - National Alliance to End Homelessness
- Subcommittee on Housing and Homelessness: Background Paper (1.14 MB), President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, June 2004
- Toolkit for Ending Long-Term Homelessness - Corporation for Supportive Housing
- Agencies and Organizations