Ten Year Plan

The Federal mandate is for the nation's communities to work and implement a ten year plan to eliminate homelessness. To this end the S.C. Homeless Coalition has written a state plan that has been distributed to the various communities to adapt to their own needs.

In Greenville the plan is well underway. March 15, 2005 over 100 members of the community gathered to learn about this undertaking. Those able and interested joined at least one of five task forces to work on particular aspects of the skeletal plan handed down from the state. The task forces will then submit their plans to a steering committee, which will then integrate the plans into one. The revised plan will be unveiled to the community in the beginning of  September.

Parties interested in implementing the plan will begin their work. This will take a lot of effort to bring various resources together, develop discharge plans from hospitals and prisons to alleviate the problem of people being released into homelessness, build affordable housing, and identify new resources. Prevention of homelessness will also be a key component.