R2005-158 PLACING ON FILE FINAL REPORT

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FIVE YEAR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING PLAN FINAL REPORT NHDC recommends phasing the production of housing over a five year period. The reasons for this are as follows: • This plan will serve those most in need first. Those persons with the most precarious current sleeping conditions—those on the streets or in shelters —will be housed in the first phase. Those who usually have a place to sleep but move around from night to night will be housed in the second phase. Those living with friends or relatives will be housed in the third phase. • The plan can adjust to changing market demands without overstocking the inventory of housing. The needs of this population can change. Developers can be confident of full occupancy in the first phase. However, plans for successive , phases can be scaled back or stepped up, based on the ease of filling units in earlier hases. p • The plan accounts for increases in chronic homelessness. As mentioned earlier, the planning team has been unable to find a reliable model for predicting changes in the extent of chronic homelessness, nationally or locally. Therefore the plan calls for providing housing for only those persons known to be in the target population right now. It can be anticipated that additional people will enter this population over the next 3-5 years, but it is impossible to predict how many will do so. To account for the added demand, the plan includes 50 people in the current population who may not utilize new housing because no housing model was assigned and/or their current sleeping status was unknown. Number of Units Needed bv Unit Tvpe The planning team began this step by creating a list of various housing models currently employed to provide permanent housing for this population. This resulted in a short document, Housing Models for Chronically Homeless Persons. The original matrix PAGE 16