Utah Reduced Chronic Homelessness By 9. Percent; Here's How : NPR. The Road Home is a private nonprofit social services agency that assists homeless individuals and families, in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. Here, a view from outside.
Here, a view from outside. The overall homeless population is around 1. I get probably two to five calls a week now, wanting to know how we did it, what's unique about Utah. Lloyd Pendleton, director of Utah's Homeless Task Force. The chronically homeless, on the other hand, are a subset of the homeless population that is often the most vulnerable. These are people who have been living on the streets for more than a year, or four times in the past three years, and who have a . He says he likes to think of this place as his own park.
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He is 5. 4 years old, but looks a lot older. He has a tent with a fence around it made of wood, piles of tarp and grocery carts full of stuff he collects.
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He wears a good new winter coat, which was donated. He says he's been living outside for five years. When he talks, he's a little hard to understand. He said he's had a stroke and is missing some teeth. But any day now, he's about to get his own apartment, mostly paid for by the federal government. He says he doesn't want to spend another winter in the woods.
Or he might have just stayed homeless. Under Utah's Housing First approach, he'll get housed with few questions asked. A Doubter Becomes Director Of Housing First Efforts. The idea of Housing First is that housing comes first, services later.
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Clients do have to pay some rent — either 3. A similar approach was first tried in Los Angeles in the late 1. New York City in the early 1. Later, the Bush administration adopted the model, and cities and states started writing 1. But he changed his mind after learning about the Housing First model and now heads Utah's Homeless Task Force. Almost two years later, Pendleton says, all those people remained housed. And he got everybody all the way up to the governor on board.
According to Pathways to Housing National, Utah was the first to take the Housing First model statewide. And even though many cities in the U. S. Ten years ago, when the efforts first started, there were nearly 2,0. Utah. By comparison, there are currently more than 2. California. Second, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints, which has significant influence in Utah, was a big supporter of Housing First. As well, Utah had a champion in Lloyd Pendleton — someone who believed in the idea and was willing to push politicians and advocates to go along. And finally, most of the advocates and agencies in Utah know each other and work well with each other.
They also know most of the homeless people by name. Matching The Homeless With Homes. Every Tuesday in Salt Lake City, people in all the organizations that work with the chronically homeless gather in a small meeting room at a nonprofit called The Road Home. On a recent Tuesday, Kevin Austin, the group's housing supervisor, looks through a list of 8. Salt Lake region who qualify for housing. Even though Utah is committed to Housing First, there still isn't enough housing for every one of the chronically homeless.
And so the group has to assess need, and match the right apartment opening with the right person.(For privacy reasons, NPR is not revealing clients' names.)For instance, there's an opening at a group living site with shared bathrooms. Austin notes they need a candidate who is male and . And just before the group is ready to finalize that decision and move on, Ed Snoddy, who does medical outreach for Volunteers of America, a faith- based nonprofit, speaks up.
For now, his name stays on the list. The group works through a few more openings, trying to balance the needs of people living on the street with the housing available. After the meeting, Austin says those decisions are tough.
But (for) those three people, that's their lifeblood. It's one place in Salt Lake City where chronically homeless people are placed in housing, and it provides services like counseling on site. Formerly homeless, Joe Ortega has been living at Grace Mary Manor for the past six months. He says it's how he dealt with life on the streets. He was homeless for 2. For the past two years he lived under a bridge. Then one day he started losing movement in his arms and losing his balance.
He went to a doctor who told him to get sober. He says he kind of liked living in the streets. Because you're like, 'I've got freedom, and I don't have to answer to a landlord, and don't have to pay the light bill.' .. And that's what kind of keeps you out there. I was scared. And I was like, 'What am I gonna do alone? I gotta find things to take up my time.'.
Advocates say it takes time for people to get used to the fact that they have a home. Some people will sleep in tents, inside their apartments.
Some will even go sleep on the streets a few nights a week. For Joe Ortega, it means getting used to not having to hustle for everything — and getting used to being alone. Ortega says he spends his days with puzzles or watching documentaries on TV.