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Outline: 10 Steps to End Homelessness Forever
#1 Keep politics out of the whole process. Focus on getting into the action of building housing so people can live with respect and dignity.
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#2 Create a master plan. This master plan could be developed in urban cities, counties and rural counties across the USA.
#3 Create public and private partnerships, implementing ideas, concepts and dreams to build affordable housing.
Three Pillars To End Homelessness In America
Pillar 1: Emergency Shelter
Pillar 2: Transitional Housing
Pillar 3: Permanent Affordable Housing both Rental and Ownership
#4 Master planning to end homelessness to include the specific creation of emergency shelters (1–90-day stays), transitional housing (91–180-day stays) and permanent rental housing models to be built on scattered sites within residential neighborhood contexts.
#5 Create a local, statewide and federal overhaul of all planning codes. This will encourage and incentivize new developments of all types, increase density bonuses by public and private partnerships.
#6 Amend and overhaul the local, state and federal building codes which will dramatically reduce the bureaucratic delays and irrelevant costs that drive up the cost of development and construction.
#7 Create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund of evolving funds made available to nonprofit and for-profit organizations. This would create a constant supply of funds for and allow loans for new housing and rehabilitation of existing structures.
#8 Create a public/private citizens’ panel to provide constant and interactive communication tools between governmental entities, financial institutions, neighborhood voices and developers.
#9 Streamline all approval processes to adopt local, state and federal legislation which will mandate a project’s length of time limit for all approvals to expedite the production and implementation of emergency shelters, transitional housing and permanent housing models.
#10 Create and adopt annual and five-year work programs backed up with legislation which details and will delineate project concepts, goals, development timelines and build-outs of emergency shelters, transitional housing and permanent housing models.
