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By stabilizing people through shelter, moving them into permanent housing, and engaging them in developed assistance programs to keep them in their long-term, permenant housing, we can not only reduce, but help to eliminate, homelessness along our gulf Coast.
Since modern homelessness began more than fifty years ago, research and experience have overwhelmingly shown that investments in permanent housing are extraordinarily effective in reducing homelessness — as well as in most
cases being cost-effective.
Many of the most successful housing-based policies designed to address the homelessness crisis — in particular, permanent supportive housing for individuals living with disabilities, Veterans, and other special needs —were pioneered in major metropolitan areas and replicated throughout the country. Although, there are three types of shelters, we will first develop community-based Help Center providing rapid delivery of services within our communities, and will then begin the planning for a centralized SVDP Family Homeless Shelter that will support services for more complex, critical, and long-term needs, such as housing. Numerous research studies have consistently confirmed that long-term housing assistance not only successfully reduces homelessness — it is also less expensive than temporarily sheltering and other institutional care. Proven housing-based policies include:
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