Goals & Impact
Goals & Impact
Our Intended Goals
Our Intended Goals
Preservation and Prevention
Increase resources and develop strategies to prevent homelessness, including the preservation of existing affordable housing and enhanced utilization of social services; increased financial supports, such as the City and County Affordable Housing Trust Funds, to prevent homelessness and stabilize those who are precariously housed; and support for local regulation and land use policy changes that increase housing stability for residents.
Emergency Shelter
Create and further develop collective community agreements specific to emergency shelter provision, including expanding options for emergency shelter care to include safe and legal outdoor sleeping spaces and non-congregate shelter and improving shelter access to housing and supportive service resources.
Buildings/Housing Units
Quantify the need for additional affordable units and, through new construction, conversion, subsidization, and redevelopment, increase the local affordable housing stock inventory with a goal of at least 100-200 units per year.
individual vouchers/program-based vouchers
Increase funding for housing vouchers, both short- and long-term, and develop strategies to ensure that those vouchers can be flexibly utilized in ways that promote equity and housing choice; and ensure that existing voucher programs are expended in full.
Supportive Services
Ensure all interested individuals and families participating in housing programs have high-quality crisis intervention, behavioral healthcare, and other supportive services to maintain safe housing.
System Infrastructure
Continue development of the community-wide homeless response system, which includes strategic planning and clarifying the roles, function, and authority of each partner. The system development will include collective identification of system gaps through collecting accurate data, creation of cooperative strategies to address gaps, and consistent cross-agency communication on funding opportunities, housing initiatives, and overall system development.
Preservation and Prevention
Increase resources and develop strategies to prevent homelessness, including the preservation of existing affordable housing and enhanced utilization of social services; increased financial supports, such as the City and County Affordable Housing Trust Funds, to prevent homelessness and stabilize those who are precariously housed; and support for local regulation and land use policy changes that increase housing stability for residents.
Emergency Shelter
Create and further develop collective community agreements specific to emergency shelter provision, including expanding options for emergency shelter care to include safe and legal outdoor sleeping spaces and non-congregate shelter and improving shelter access to housing and supportive service resources.
Buildings/Housing Units
Quantify the need for additional affordable units and, through new construction, conversion, subsidization, and redevelopment, increase the local affordable housing stock inventory with a goal of at least 100-200 units per year.
individual vouchers/program-based vouchers
Increase funding for housing vouchers, both short- and long-term, and develop strategies to ensure that those vouchers can be flexibly utilized in ways that promote equity and housing choice; and ensure that existing voucher programs are expended in full.
Supportive Services
Ensure all interested individuals and families participating in housing programs have high-quality crisis intervention, behavioral healthcare, and other supportive services to maintain safe housing.
System Infrastructure
Continue development of the community-wide homeless response system, which includes strategic planning and clarifying the roles, function, and authority of each partner. The system development will include collective identification of system gaps through collecting accurate data, creation of cooperative strategies to address gaps, and consistent cross-agency communication on funding opportunities, housing initiatives, and overall system development.
Our Impact
The immediate impact of S3 Santa Fe Housing Initiative's coordination and collaboration efforts include the following:
- Provision of emergency hotel shelter to over 450 Santa Fe residents in the fall and winter of 2020-2021.
- Provision of permanent housing options to over 75 individual households, including some with young children, in the fall and winter of 2020-2021.
- Increased access to ongoing coordination, administrative support, and system infrastructure.
- Enhanced access to case management/navigation and direct client support.
- Increased commitment by local, state and federal government entities to support Santa Fe in ending homelessness.
- Enhanced commitment by private foundations to explore opportunities for investment in available Santa Fe properties for the purposes of increased access to affordable housing for both working class and homeless populations.
- Recruitment of and participation by additional investors who are interested in the issue of homelessness and housing conditions in the Santa Fe area.
- New commitments of funds for collective needs and public awareness.
- New Community Catalyst Fund to support more affordable home ownership.
Learn more about our partners and join the S3 Sante Fe Housing Initiative.
Our Impact
The immediate impact of S3 Santa Fe Housing Initiative's coordination and collaboration efforts include the following:
- Provision of emergency hotel shelter to over 450 Santa Fe residents in the fall and winter of 2020-2021.
- Provision of permanent housing options to over 75 individual households, including some with young children, in the fall and winter of 2020-2021.
- Increased access to ongoing coordination, administrative support, and system infrastructure.
- Enhanced access to case management/navigation and direct client support.
- Increased commitment by local, state and federal government entities to support Santa Fe in ending homelessness.
- Enhanced commitment by private foundations to explore opportunities for investment in available Santa Fe properties for the purposes of increased access to affordable housing for both working class and homeless populations.
- Recruitment of and participation by additional investors who are interested in the issue of homelessness and housing conditions in the Santa Fe area.
- New commitments of funds for collective needs and public awareness.
- New Community Catalyst Fund to support more affordable home ownership.
Learn more about our partners and join the S3 Sante Fe Housing Initiative.
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