The Homelessness Prevention & Response System serves those at risk of or experiencing homelessness to safely housing people.

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The Homelessness Prevention & Response System

The Advisory Council’s goal is to establish a complete and comprehensive system of care; addressing and resolving programmatic and systemic gaps in service will help achieve this goal. 

Prevention

• Prevention
  Serves low-income and extremely vulnerable people about to lose their housing.
• Diversion
  Serves people who have lost housing and are facing imminent entry into a shelter or sleeping outside.
• Retention
  Ensures that people that previously experienced homelessness and have been placed into permanent housing retain their housing.

Homelessness Response

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• Outreach
• Emergency Shelter 
• Transitional Housing

Housing

• Supportive Housing
  Combines housing assistance with support services to address the needs of chronically homeless people.
• Rapid Rehousing
  Designed to help people quickly exit homelessness & return to housing.
• Independent Affordable Housing
  When the occupant pays no more than 30% of gross income for housing.