Coalition for the Homeless<\/a>. \u201cBut all of our sheltering partners, if they had a way to exit people out and give them more support, that would be better than building a whole new building that you have to fund.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\nThe funding source<\/p>\n
Young added that the money can be used more flexibly than other funding that may come from the federal government because not everyone qualifies for those dollars.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThese flexible dollars are helping us be able to help someone who might have just ended up on the street yesterday,\u201d Young said. \u201cAnd we can figure out that next step for that person and move them along more quickly, and they don\u2019t have to wait a\u00a0 year until they\u2019re eligible for housing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Funding comes from organizations such as the Brown Foundation, Cullen Foundation, Houston Endowment and Kinder Foundation. <\/p>\n
One of the goals is to move people from homelessness to stability within 90 days. Housing and Community Development Director Mike Nichols said some people can move quickly into transitional housing, sober living facilities or other resources. Some may take longer, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are individuals with individual issues that have to be solved,\u201d he said. \u201cBut that\u2019s (90 days) the goal.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
One more thing<\/p>\n
The funding is expected to be spent over three years while partners look for more long-term, sustainable funding, Young said. Part of that includes seeing if the systems can absorb the costs themselves after the P2I funding has ended. The other part involves looking at local tax dollar funding options.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do think that we need to be thoughtful about if these are things that we want fixed, how much are we willing to pay for it,\u201d Young said.<\/p>\n
Young said she is hopeful that other organizations and corporations will see the success of the fund and will be willing to become donors to fill the gap to reach the $48 million goal.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A regional homeless initiative will invest $48 million over three years in a strategic philanthropic fund for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[116379,73778,66472,56,19255,58,57,42500,116380,157160,157159],"class_list":["post-459447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-419-emancipation","tag-coalition-for-the-homeless","tag-homeless-services","tag-houston","tag-houston-endowment","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-kelly-young","tag-mike-nichols","tag-p2i","tag-pathway-to-independence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}