The Plan: Key Strategies

EveryOne Home envisions a housing and services system that partners with consumers, families and advocates; provides appropriate services in a timely fashion to all who need them; and ensures that individuals and families are safely, supportively and permanently housed. To achieve those objectives, the plan is structured around five major goals that outline multi-faceted solutions for a multi-dimensional problem:

• Prevent homelessness and other housing crises. The most effective way to end homelessness is to prevent it in the first place by making appropriate services accessible at the time they are needed. In particular, people leaving institutions such foster care, hospitals, jails and prisons need interventions and planning that will prevent them from exiting into homelessness.

• Increase housing opportunities for the plan’s target populations. Increasing affordable and supportive housing opportunities requires creative use of existing resources, developing new resources and using effective models of housing and services. This plan identifies a need for 15,000 units of housing for people who are homeless or living with HIV/AIDS or mental illness over the next 15 years.

• Deliver flexible services to support stability and independence. Culturally competent, coordinated support services must accompany housing. Direct service providers in all systems throughout the county must have a degree of knowledge about and access to a range of housing resources and supportive services.

• Measure success and report outcomes. Evaluating outcomes will allow systems and agencies to identify successful programs and target resources toward best practices.

• Develop long-term leadership and build political will. The goals of EveryOne Home will only be achieved by developing a long-term leadership structure that can sustain systems change activities. Implementation of this plan will also require building and sustaining political and community support for its vision and activities.

Downloads

Download a PDF of the EveryOne Home Unit Definition

Download a PDF of the Homelessness Prevention in Alameda County: Phase 1 Report

Download a PDF of the EveryOne Home Action Plan

Download a PDF of the Alameda Countywide Homeless and Special Needs Plan

Download a PDF of the Alameda Countywide Homeless and Special Needs Housing Plan- Companion Materials