Blueprint Plan
The Blueprint to End Homelessness, a plan guiding a community-wide initiative, contains many recommendations, but at its core it calls for a simple but profound change in the way that the current homeless system responds to those it serves.
History
The Blueprint started as a year-long community planning effort that produced a ten-year strategy for how we can both prevent and end homelessness in Indianapolis. The ten-year timeline began in January 2003.
What It Is
The Blueprint is a dynamic strategic plan to increase supportive housing, expand prevention services, and move the focus from emergency responses to lasting solutions. Affordable housing matched with support services and employment has been proven highly effective in keeping even people with multiple challenges housed and moving toward self-sufficiency.
Why It’s Needed
Research has shown that permanently housing people experiencing homelessness and providing them with support services saves public dollars. Further evidence shows that supportive housing provides public benefits beyond cost savings, including improved neighborhood safety and beautification and increased or stabilized property values in most communities.
What Works
The Blueprint outlines proven strategies to end homelessness, with a primary focus on a Housing First, Housing Plus approach.
Ending homelessness is cost effective, feasible and humane. We cannot afford to continue to watch more families and individuals lose their homes when we know how to help them. Homelessness can be ended in Indianapolis with the support and advocacy of caring and engaged members of our community.
Download a copy of Indianapolis’s Blueprint to End Homelessness.
