Presentation on Housing First & justifications (to be developed with this organizations help) for taxpayer & government funding savings from the proposed solution!

2. Hope for the Hopeless
A Path to Housing First
Designs, Land, Prototype, Services, Funding
& Sustainable Community Living
Supportive Housing for the New Age
Homelessness Can Be Ended

3. Other Communities are doing
Housing First

Many definitions, many approaches

Confusing to some, does mean housing before..

Local model will be developed with consensus

Existing providers don't support Housing First

Why Housing First?

Sobriety vs Recovery

Why is it a Health Safety Net Council issue?

Save taxpayers, jails, hospitals & mental health
provider $ - do more with existing $

4. Why Housing First Now?

Savannah needs new approaches to chronic &
under-served homeless populations

Chronic because we've been ignoring them

Hard problem to solve – one size doesn't fit all

Family, Women & Children's homelessness

Ignored also, but GA 49 out of 50 in 2009 study

Savannah is in GA, must be ignoring them too!

Youth, Prison reentry, mental health

(ODR has no housing component!)

5. A vision in Marin County CA
Homeward Bound

Partnership

Homeless Continuum

Land, OMA Village, story!

Designs

Container Housing

Builder, doing container housing already

Applying to Family Homelessness

15. Savannah's Justification

21. What is Homelessness

23. HousingFirstSavannah.com
Founding Partners

HIS Advocacy

HUGS, Heads Up Guidance Services

Trident Sustainability

24. HousingFirstSavannah.com

Executive Summary

Jobs, container housing model

Unique Services (proven) model

Outreach model

Entire community benefits

Taxpayer savings

Aug 22, 2010, $2.1M taxpayer cost in SMN
article?

25. Popular question:
How many homeless in Savannah?

If we rely on PIT numbers then...

100KHomes registry model

Atlanta model of outreach, Hands On ATL

Surveys, Vulnerability Index from 100KHomes

VAT, Vulnerability Assessment Tool, DESC.org
− Other communities taking it to this level
− Surveys, gather data, document, pictures

Savannah data exists, 100KHomes, GAEH @ Stand
Downs two years (75 registered)

26. HousingFirstSavannah.com
Two pieces of property on Wheaton St

Land plots adjoining

2.1 acres

6 acres

NIMBY should be minimal

Close to main target demographic – tents
around CNI / ESG neighborhoods

38. Outreach, streets, bridges,
tent cities
•

39. City of Atlanta, Mayor
www.unshelterednomore.org

Partners

Funding, Bloomberg Philanthropies

311 system redesign

100KHomes.org partnership

Advisory Board

40. Funding for Savannah's
Housing First?

Community effort to end homelessness

Not just the job of government, social services

Jobs for homeless to stabilize
− Multiple types of jobs, new entrepreneurs

Interfaith efforts, more than street ministries

Social Impact Bonds

Not government money for housing or programs

Taxpayer savings though as justification

Pay for Success model of funding, SIBs

Social Good investors – private, L3C, B-Corp

43. Health Impact Bond: The Next SIB?
by David Friedkin (03/25/2013)
There is growing momentum in the US around Social Impact Bonds, and Pay for
Success strategies in general. With the New York City Social Impact Bond already
announced and under way, proponents of the model are hoping to adapt it to
produce positive outcomes in cases of health and the environment as well. The
latest development occurred on March 25, 2013 and will target Fresno, CA. The
California Endowment awarded a $660k grant to Social Finance US "to launch a
demonstration project to improve the health of low-income children with asthma
and reduce the costs that result from emergency treatments."
Press Release
Other Social Impact Bond Projects (USA):

Prison Recividism – Rykers Prison, NYC, Youth population

Homelessness – Boston, MA

Federal Govt – in budget FY 2013 - $100M to test SIBs for govt funded projects

Coming from UK where successful method for funding Social Good Projects
Investors doing Soical Impact Bond investing:

Private investor groups interested in Social Good & Pay for Success models

Governments

Social investment “venture” funds

45. What is Homelessness

47. Resources to learn more
about homelessness
• Here's something on the 60 minutes segment on families
living in their cars:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7389750n&tag=cont
got a lot of awareness on issue!
• Littlest Nomads is kids segment - 4 minute trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbSgzEQJXs8
• One page - what is homelessness:
http://hearus.us/pdf/CTL-homelessness_causes-1pg.pdf
• Overall page on Understanding Homelessness:
http://hearus.us/understanding-homelessness.html

48. Testimony, Background
Marvin Heery
Recent interviews can
• Click to add text
serve as way to learn
more about the
Advocacy
• Thecoastalsource.com
• SavannahNow.com

49. Contact Us, Get Involved!
Marvin Heery
Homelessness in Savannah Advocacy ==> Housing First Savannah ==>
Savannah Interfaith Taskforce
info@homelessnessinsavannah.org
912.659.0696 mobile 678.632.4663 office
On Social Media, Facebook, Twitter & Blogs:
Savannah Area Interfaith Taskforce on Ending Homelessness – Page, Group
Housing First Savannah Blog, Twitter
Homelessness in Savannah Advocacy Blog, Twitter