Innovations in 10-Year Plans to End Chronic Homelessnessin Your Community
Key to any 10-year planning effort is ensuring that business principles inform the plan: establishing baselines to quantify the magnitude of the problem; benchmarks to remedy incrementally what the baselines reveal; budget implications including needed investments and return cost savings; and identification of best practices.
USICH Director Phil Mangano notes that when community 10-year plans are “driven, shaped, and implemented by a business mindset that requires results and outcomes, we have seen dramatic changes occur. Visible, measurable, quantifiable change on the streets, in neighborhoods, and most importantly in the lives of homeless people.”
