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17 NON-PROFIT IMPLEMENTATION PARTNERS Community Homebuyers Corportation(CHC) shelter for 589 unique individuals. In November Through a DCl/CHC agreement, NHH staff administer and December 2024, 340 unique individuals utilized the First-Time Homeownership Program, provide weather amnesty,with an average of 57 people housing counseling, and assist with board management. per night in November and 82 people per night in Similarly,the Urban Enterprise Association of South December. Bend, Inc. (UEA) is a city partner/fiscal agent contracting with DCI to administer Matching/Vibrant Places Grant. • Funds Oaklawn's City Outreach Team to help unhoused individuals become aware of available Urban Enterprise Assocation (UEA) resources, be placed on the Coordinated Entry list In 2024,the UEA, in partnership with the City,awarded for housing, and gather the needed paperwork to apply to a housing unit when one becomes available. $50,000 to support the development of two new rental infill housing.The purpose of this effort is to • Provides operating funding for Our Lady of the Road help support urban neighborhoods by introducing new and Motels For Now to support transitional housing housing, improving the quality of life,and promoting the for homeless individuals. market potential to a broader audience. • Supports Oaklawn's Crisis Center,which opened in Housing Authority of South Bend(HASB)Partnership March.The Crisis Center provides a place for people The City partnered with HASB to renovate vacant in a mental health or substance use crisis to go for scattered site homes that are part of the public housing care and will complement the existing mobile crisis program.Approximately$1 million in City funds has team and phone resources currently available. In been dedicated to repairing these units so that families 2024,120 unique people came into the Center. can move into them.Six homes were renovated in 2024, and the partnership will continue in 2025. • Facilitates the Wash Wednesday and Senior Suds Night Programs,a partnership with Burton's Laundry Support for Persons Experiencing Homelessness that allows unhoused members of our community and seniors living on fixed incomes to wash their The City supports efforts to address homelessness clothes for free every other week. In 2024 they through financial support for local service providers, washed the equivalent of 6,276 loads of laundry for leverage for permanent supportive housing projects, 995 guests. management of the Coordinated Entry tracking and placement process,and supportive services.The City's The Coordinator of Homeless Outreach also convenes Coordinator of Homeless Outreach works to align a monthly meeting of agencies that provide housing, services across nonprofit partners. mental health, physical health,and recovery services to discuss needs across the city.Separately,the City Below is a description of some of the City's efforts to organizes 18 agencies that work specifically to address address homelessness in 2024: substance use.They have developed a framework to increase awareness,encourage reduction of use, • Provided $350,000 to the Center for the Homeless connect people with treatment options, and create (CFH)to operate weather amnesty for individuals supportive community.The Coordinator of Homeless in need of emergency overnight shelter in the Outreach also provides training on mental health, months of November-April. During the 2023-2024 trauma informed care, de-escalation strategies, and weather amnesty program,CFH provided overnight policies for agencies, neighborhoods, businesses and religious organizations. NEIGHBORHOODS DIVISION ANNUAL REPORT 2024