Chronic Homeless Initiative Private Public Partership

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Housing: Through a combination of permanent supportive housing, rapid-rehousing, and additional housing placements, we’ve helped 307 people in San Francisco exit homelessness since our launch in July 2017.

Our team is tracking the progress of our three core strategies: to create new housing, prevent homelessness, and optimize the public sector.

Prevention: System Interventions

Tipping Point is focused on interventions that target the systems that people experiencing chronic homelessness frequently interact with:

• Behavioral health
• Child welfare
• Criminal justice
• Income support

Individual Interventions

The City’s strategy focuses on individual interventions, such as:

• Eviction prevention
• Family reunification
• Legal services
• Mediation

Optimizing Public Resources

• Funding Leverage: To bolster the City’s existing efforts, and to continue funding successful pilot programs launched through the Chronic Homelessness Initiative, Tipping Point is committed to helping the City access supplemental sources of federal, state, and other funding. The Moving On Initiative, for example, leverages under-utilized federal housing vouchers to provide subsidies for people to move out of permanent supportive housing. These subsidies help people transition to housing they can afford at no cost to the City, and simultaneously opens up space to house people currently experiencing homelessness.

• Accountability: We understand that the effects of homelessness are wide ranging and those experiencing it access a variety of city services. CHI programs help bridge the gaps between these services, with the goals of creating a more seamless continuum of care for individuals experiencing homelessness and developing more avenues for individuals to exit homelessness.

• Data: Underlying  our efforts to augment the City’s homelessness response system is the effort to improve data collection and sharing. Without a robust system to track service use and outcomes of those experiencing homelessness, we cannot fully understand the efficacy of our work to reduce homelessness. Tipping Point supports the rollout of Coordinated Entry, a nationwide best practice for connecting people experiencing homelessness to services, and the ONE System, which will serve as the database for the City’s homeless response system. Additionally, in all of our programs, we require the collection and analysis of data around the demographics of clients served in order to track whether our work is equitable. We encourage this practice across all public sector programs.

• Equity and Inclusion: We know that homelessness disproportionately affects Black individuals and members of the LGBTQ+ community. We are committed to using an equity lens to inform our efforts to address these disparities.  We also strive to incorporate the voice of people experiencing homelessness in the design and implementation of our programs. This gives agency to those experiencing homelessness to help shape the programs they interact with and helps to ensure that interventions truly address their needs.