Anchored Home 2023-2028

Anchorage’s 5-Year Strategic Plan to Address Homelessness.

Together we are fighting to make sure that every neighbor has a roof over their head, a place to put down anchor and feel safe with their loved ones.

About the plan

The strategies and actions in Anchored Home 2023-2028 focus on increasing the supply of and equitable access to affordable housing and tailored supports for people at risk of or experiencing homelessness and are in alignment with federal strategic goals and investments to address homelessness.

Reaching “Functional Zero” homelessness is the goal.

Functional Zero is a milestone, which must be sustained, that indicates the community has measurably solved homelessness for a population. Inflow is less than outflow. When it’s achieved, homelessness is rare and brief.

Anchored Home Strategic Directives

  • Strengthen the capacity of state and local governments, tribes, Native-serving organizations, and nonprofits to collect, report, and use data.

  • Promote equity and seek ways to expand partnership to include people with lived experience and ensure meaningful participation and compensation for their time and expertise.

  • Increase access to housing and homelessness funding and coordinate and leverage funding opportunities with existing federal, state, local and philanthropic funding.

  • Improve information-sharing with public and private organizations at the federal, state, and local level.

  • Expand engagement, resources, and incentives for the creation of new safe, affordable, and accessible housing.

  • Increase the supply and impact of permanent supportive housing for individuals and families with complex service needs.

  • Increase the use of evidence-based service delivery across all program types.

System Performance Measures

System Performance Measures help communities gauge their progress in preventing and ending homelessness and provide a more complete picture of how well a community is achieving its goal of functional zero.

Improve

Improve community approaches—including getting contributions from those experiencing homelessness—to identify, engage, and re-house people experiencing unsheltered homelessness, including through a Housing First approach.

Reduce

Reduce the average length of homelessness through improved coordinated entry system implementation including through partnerships with mainstream resources and programs.

Prevent

Prevent people from becoming homeless when they exit public systems, including but not limited to child welfare, prisons, and mental health institutions, through state, tribal and local partnerships.

Increase

Increase retention in housing by improving access to affordable housing, healthcare, and other client-centered supportive services.

Increase

Increase capacity of Continuums of Care (CoCs) to use existing data to measure and track system performance.

Measuring Success:

To help achieve the goal, including evaluating the system performance measures, the following metrics have been established:

  • Number of people experiencing homelessness

  • Length of homelessness

  • Number of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness

  • First time homeless

  • Number of Veterans experiencing homelessness

  • Number of families experiencing homelessness

  • Percentage of people exiting to permanent housing destinations

  • Returns to homelessness

  • Number of supportive services-only programs

  • Percentage of people experiencing homelessness into HUD and other subsidized housing programs