Homelessness
The City of Fort Worth and its partner agencies are working to make homelessness a rare, short-term and non-recurring experience in Cowtown by 2018 through the Directions Home program.
Currently, only a third of the more than $30 million in private and public funds spent each year on homelessness are responding in a proactive manner. Directions Home seeks to focus efforts countywide to respond in the most economically prudent and compassionate way possible by:
- Increasing the supply of permanent supportive housing
- Expanding opportunities and service linked with accountability
- Developing and operating a central resource facility
- Coordinating and expanding homelessness prevention initiatives
- Supporting and strengthening existing public, private and faith-based efforts
- Mitigating the negative community impacts of homelessness
- Leading, educating and advocating for change