STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Housing & Homelessness Solutions
AGENDA DATE: January 24, 2024
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S): All
DEPARTMENT: Office of Homeless Solutions
EXECUTIVE: Kimberly Bizor Tolbert
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SUBJECT
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Authorize the City Manager to execute a twenty-month contract with Housing Forward as a sole source, approved as to form by the City Attorney, for outreach services enhancing the efforts of the Real Time Rehousing (RTR) Project formerly Dallas Real Time Rapid Rehousing; the services will provide front line outreach services to persons experiencing homelessness in encampments and aligns with the City of Dallas' strategy to reduce encampments and unsheltered homelessness through the RTR initiative - Not to exceed $2,354,314.00 - Financing: General Fund (subject to annual appropriations)
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BACKGROUND
The expansion of Street Outreach Services enhances the capacity and aligns with the City of Dallas' strategy to reduce encampments and unsheltered homelessness through the RTR initiative (formerly Dallas Real Time Rapid Rehousing). Street Outreach staff are essential to the encampment decommissioning and re-housing process, and are responsible for delivering the following services, engagement with people experiencing unsheltered homelessness, conducting coordinated access system assessments, service coordination and connection to community-based resources, housing navigation to support people on a pathway to permanent housing, data entry and reporting to monitor performance.
The Continuum of Care Board (CoC), recognized Housing Forward (formerly Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance), a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, as the lead agency to operate the CoC and support year-round planning activities. As the lead agency designated by the CoC, Housing Forward is also the lead agency for RTR. This project has been in operation since 2021 and has been instrumental in addressing homelessness in the city of Dall...
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