Technique to Finish and Stop Homelessness

Our imaginative and prescient is that homelessness is uncommon, temporary, and non-recurring in Charlotte-Mecklenburg; and each particular person has entry to everlasting, inexpensive housing with the sources to maintain it.

Immediately, a broad consortium of the private and non-private sectors is happy to announce the discharge of A Home for All: Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s Strategy to End and Prevent Homelessness – Part 1: Strategic Framework.

The Strategic Framework represents the end result of this part of the group’s work to develop a complete, transformative technique to handle housing instability and homelessness. Cathy Bessant, Vice Chair of World Technique at Financial institution of America; and Eugene A. Woods, President and CEO of Atrium Well being, served because the co-chairs of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Housing & Homelessness Technique (CMHHS), which is the physique that produced this framework.

“Homelessness is a human and group tragedy that impacts all of us,” stated Cathy Bessant, Vice Chair, World Technique, Financial institution of America. “Our focus has been on growing an strategy that addresses the total continuum of want, and on serving to to drive significant and lasting change. With everybody on the desk, together with the general public, non-profit, and personal sectors, we plan to help present work whereas creating and executing modern, new approaches.”

“It has been an honor and a privilege to co-chair the 2025 Charlotte Mecklenburg Housing and Homelessness Technique, alongside Cathy Bessant, over the previous yr,” stated Eugene A. Woods, president and CEO of Atrium Well being. “We have seen firsthand the deep dedication and unimaginable spirit of collaboration on this public-private partnership as now we have labored collectively to handle one of the crucial urgent challenges our group faces, and this partnership will undoubtedly proceed to develop stronger.”

Included within the Strategic Framework is a high-level overview of suggestions throughout 9 areas: prevention; shelter; inexpensive housing; cross-sector helps; coverage; funding; knowledge; communications; and long-term technique. These suggestions are additional organized by the values that undergird them: addressing historic and structural inequities; increasing entry to and availability of stock and sources; coordinating programs to make sure they’re straightforward to navigate for the people who want to make use of them; and altering the system to maintain the long-term impression of the work enacted.

“This effort is our group at its greatest,” stated Michael Smith, CEO of Charlotte Heart Metropolis Companions. “A seemingly insurmountable social justice problem being taken on by a broad coalition of devoted professionals, group leaders, previously homeless and government leaders. The strategic plan is complete and well-crafted to realize the shared imaginative and prescient of uncommon, temporary and non-recurring homelessness.”

Launched virtually one yr in the past, CMHHS has integrated illustration from people with lived expertise of housing instability and homelessness in addition to suppliers who serve on the entrance traces of this work; representatives from the every of our group’s public sector entities; members of the company enterprise sectors, together with healthcare, workforce improvement, childcare, transportation, and different complementary sectors; non-profits; funders; religion communities; grassroots organizations; and housing builders, landlords, and actual property entities. The suggestions in A Residence for All have been knowledgeable by analysis and greatest practices, together with via instantly participating material specialists and group leaders from throughout the nation.

“To place it one other method, it is a best-practice knowledgeable, data-driven framework that has been wrapped in our native context in order that it’s poised for motion” stated Dena R. Diorio, Mecklenburg County Supervisor.

Immediately additionally marks the day our group comes collectively to finish the annual Level-in-Time Depend, a required exercise to obtain federal homelessness funding. The Level-in-Time Depend is led by Mecklenburg County and identified domestically as “EverybodyCountsCLT.” The objective of the Level-in-Time Depend is to make sure that everybody experiencing literal homelessness is counted. Releasing the framework on at the present time serves as an essential reminder for why we’d like options, now.

The objective of CMHHS is to develop a method that makes our imaginative and prescient doable: that homelessness is uncommon, temporary, and non-recurring in Charlotte-Mecklenburg; a method that’s targeted on offering each particular person entry to everlasting, inexpensive housing and the sources to maintain their housing. The discharge of the Strategic Framework represents a shift on this work from plan improvement to implementation, turning the suggestions into motion.

To assist events unpack the suggestions in addition to counsel tangible methods to help implementation of them, a toolkit has been developed. Please contemplate downloading and sharing the toolkit, linked here. You too can signal as much as obtain common updates by coming into your e mail at www.ahomeforallmeck.com. To study extra in regards to the A Residence for All Strategic Framework, present suggestions, or advocate objects for consideration within the implementation plan, please e mail [email protected].

Along with Atrium Well being and Financial institution of America, a consortium comprised of representatives from Mecklenburg County, the Metropolis of Charlotte, and Charlotte Heart Metropolis Companions have offered ongoing help to launch and maintain the CMHHS effort and the discharge of A Residence for All: Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s Technique to Finish and Stop Homelessness – Half 1: Strategic Framework. McKinsey & Firm has offered fact-based evaluation on a professional bono foundation to assist inform the event of the great technique. To view a particular video message from CMHHS co-chairs, Cathy Bessant and Eugene A. Woods, please go to www.ahomeforallmeck.com.