10 Year Plan
Places for People - The Tampa/Hillsborough 10-year Plan to End Homelessness
In 2002, Hillsborough County was one of the first communities in the nation to develop a 10-year plan. The Places for People was introduced in 2002 and identified a handful of long-term, proven solutions to helping homeless people in our community.
The plan's recommendations to increase access to housing and shelter in the City of Tampa and Hillsborough County are to:
1. Create a Homeless Customer Services Program that coordinates intake and assessment collaboratively, while creating an accurate database in real time on homelessness/low income housing and shelter space availability.
2. Develop H.E.L.P. (Hillsborough Emergency Lodging Program) Shelters to stabilize families while they wait to get into a mainstream program.
3. Develop a H.E.L.P. Shelter to stabilize single homeless while they wait to get into mainstream programs.
4. Develop a Recuperative Care Center for homeless persons who are released from hospitals; a facility to recuperate with medical support before they return to the streets.
5. Create incentives to develop Permanent Supportive Housing: Small facilities with services for the chronically homeless. Monitor quality of services, facilities, and outcomes.
6. Assist with permanent housing by using “Housing First” as the main way to addressing homelessness. Assist the Tampa Housing Authority, City of Tampa, and Hillsborough County to prioritize development of very low-income housing (30% of median income and below). As a budgeted priority, and endorse the National Housing Trust Fund.
Places for People, Tampa/Hillsborough 10-year plan to end homelessness (<<Click to Download PDF)
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