Agenda Packet 5-13-19 Joint Work Session

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CONCLUSION IMPLEMENTATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS With collaboration and effective coordination, Lane County and the City of Eugene, along with other stakeholders across the county, are well-positioned to drive system changes that will impact the unsheltered homeless crisis, as well as make significant strides to ending homelessness throughout Lane County. Whether decreases in unsheltered homelessness will be realized in a meaningful way depends largely on the ability to implement TAC’s recommendations in a timely and thorough way. Upon review of this report, TAC strongly encourages Lane County to create an implementation plan to carry out the recommendations outlined here. While a new low-barrier shelter may take up to a year or two to design and develop, the other recommendations can begin to be implemented fairly quickly once resources are identified. A new low-barrier shelter alone will not decrease the overall literal homeless numbers, but once created, it will offer a safe and secure place for many of Lane County’s most vulnerable people experiencing homelessness. To have a truly evident impact on the overall homelessness crisis requires broad and sweeping changes throughout the homeless system. TAC’s system modeling puts forward a three-year timeframe to implement our recommendations in order to have the demonstrable impact desired. However, the county and its partners will need to determine which recommendations are most viable and able to be implemented and at what point in that period or another timeframe. TAC believes that all of the recommendations must be implemented as a ‘package deal’ and considers any determination on the order of implementation best made at the local level. To assist the county and partners in developing an implementation plan, TAC has created both a cost analysis (Appendix E) and a list of potential funding sources for each recommendation (Appendix F). Once implementation begins, it is critical that system performance evaluation occur to ensure the intended impact of recommendations takes place and determine whether additional changes are needed to address homelessness in Lane County. PAGE 22 May 13, 2019, Joint Work Session – Item 1