Ending Homelessness

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Homelessness exists in the Fairfax-Falls Church community and it comes in many faces (families, children, single adults, diverse populations, those with disabilities and mental illness) and in many places (shelters, transitional housing, apartments, motels, outdoors). The Fairfax-Falls Church community manages homelessness; now, it wants to prevent and end homelessness.

The community has developed four strategies to guide the effort to prevent and end homelessness.

1. Prevent Homelessness Due to Economic Crisis and/or Disability
2. Preserve and Increase Affordable Housing Supply
3. Deliver Services to Obtain and Maintain Stable Housing
4. Create a Management System and Ensure Accountability

It will take a community of partners to implement this plan. It will also take individuals to comment and act upon the strategies.

Blueprint for Success: Strategic Directions for the Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness in the Fairfax-Falls Church Area (PDF)

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Headlines

• More than 700 Fairfax County Residents Served in Hypothermia Shelters This Winter
  
  
• Board of Supervisors Adopts Implementation Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness 
  • Implementation Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness: Overview (PDF)
  • Implementation Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness: Volume One (PDF)
  • Implementation Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness: Volume Two, Workbook (PDF)
    
    
• Annual Homelessness Point-in-Time Survey Results Released
  
  • 2008 Point-in-Time Survey (Updated March 31, 2008)
    
    
• Council on Homelessness Presents 2008 Message (PDF)
  
  
• Implementation Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness Scheduled for Presentation on Nov. 26
  
  • Read Executive Summary of Implementation Plan
  • View Power Point Presentation of Implementation Plan
  • Frequently Asked Questions on Ending Homelessness
    
    
• Katherine K. Hanley Family Shelter Set to Open in August
  
  
• Implementation Committee to Prevent and End Homelessness Meets for the First Time
  
  
• More Than 500 People Served by Hypothermia Shelters This Winter
  
  
• Implementation Committee Appointed
  
  
• 2007 Point in Time Survey Results Released
  
  • Read Full Report (PDF)
    
    
• Council on Homelessness Presents 2007 Message (PDF)
  
  
• Board of Supervisors Endorses Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness
  
  
• Watch "Finding Home" Video (Video File)
  
  
• Fairfax County Response to Misinformation About Feeding the Homeless
   
• 2006 Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments Homelessness Report (PDF)
  
  
• Community Convenes Summit to End Homelessness
  • Watch Video of the Summit
  • Read Presentations and Remarks
    
    
• 2006 Point in Time Survey Results Released
  
  
• Council on Homelessness Presents 2006 Message (PDF)
  
  
• Board of Supervisors Endorses Effort to End Homelessness in 10 Years