Key to Home's Two-Year Roadmap
In 2023, the Key to Home Partnership's board of directors set the following goals to be achieved by the end of 2025.
Create a new governing system
- Increase number of board members to include high-level decision makers, people with lived experience, and business owners.
Address homelessness differently
- Establish a dedicated team to manage resources, coordination of services and new initiatives.
- Enhance data solutions and accuracy to provide real time data access.
- Increase access to affordable housing by leveraging federal rental subsidies with MAPS 4 funding to add 500 (permanent supportive housing) PSH units.
Reduce youth homelessness
- Use Youth Homelessness Demonstration project funding to expand youth services.
- Rehouse or divert 100 youth by the end of 2025.
Reduce chronic unsheltered homelessness
- Deploy Encampment Rehousing Initiative to move people directly from encampments to housing.
- Rehouse 500 unsheltered single adults and families by the end of 2025.
Oklahoma City is experiencing a surge in people considered “chronically homeless.” This means more people have been homeless for a year or longer or have been homeless multiple times in the last several years.
A large percentage of those who are chronically homeless are also experiencing unsheltered homelessness. People experiencing chronic and unsheltered homelessness are typically the hardest to serve, most visible, and most costly to the community due to reactive measures such as litter abatement, emergency response and court costs.
Through this initiative, program partners collaborate to house encampment residents in an expedited 4-6 weeks and provide ongoing case management support for 12 months.