Five major U.S. cities and the state of California will receive federal help to get unsheltered residents into permanent housing. The plan was launched Thursday and is part of the Biden administration’s larger goal to reduce homelessness 25% by 2025. The White House says the All Inside initiative will partner the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness with state officials in California and local governments in Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Seattle and the Phoenix metro area. Officials say the administration will offer “tailored support” for two years to improve efforts toward housing unsheltered people, including embedding a federal official in each area.
More than 580,000 Americans were homeless in 2022, with 4 out of 10 of them unsheltered and sleeping on sidewalks and in tents and cars, Rice said.
Funding specifics were not offered, but the White House said the program will build on the $2.5 billion already allocated to prevent homelessness under the administration’s American Rescue Plan and $486 million in the Department of Housing and Urban Development funding released to local municipalities earlier this year.
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell said the White House plan will “unite our systems,” bringing solutions that are effective in some cities to other areas. Seattle, King County and nearby cities joined together to launch a regional homelessness authority two years ago. But many officials say the new agency has underperformed, been beset by political fights and had trouble fulfilling administrative duties such as executing contracts with service providers.
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