PATH: Homelessness

PATH: Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness

The goal of McLean County is to provide by 2014 all individuals and families facing homelessness with the opportunity to access safe, decent, affordable housing and the resources and supportive services to sustain it. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) defines a chronically homeless person as an unaccompanied individual who has been homeless for a year or more or had four or more episodes of homelessness in the past three years. Additionally, the individual must be disabled by addiction, mental illness, chronic physical illness or disability, or developmental disability. On any given day, more than 800,000 people experience homelessness in the United States.

Goals of the plan to end homelessness:

Increase the stock of affordable and/or subsidized housing throughout McLean County.

Improve and increase supportive services for the homeless.

Increase public awareness and support for plans to end homelessness.

Increase the focus on prevention.

Fall Internship 2004:

Issue: Looking to other plans in various cities, what would be the best way to execute the plan to end homelessness?

Goals:

Collect case studies and plans of other cities that have developed plans to end homelessness.
Make contact with community members involved in project.
Develop suggestions for Bloomington area.

Results: Suggestions were made for the Bloomington Ten Year Plan which include: use more facts to support ideas offered in plan, make the document easier to read - model plans after Indianapolis. Much more research needs to be done however.

For more information:

PATH
201 E. Grove Street
Bloomington, IL

Phone: 309.827.4005
Email: kzangerle@pathcrisis.org

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