Home For Good Columbus

Home for Good: The Alliance to End Homelessness is charged with implementing the 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness. The 10-Year Plan provides the framework for advancing the community from a model of managing the immediate needs of homelessness to ending homelessness through long-term planning and key strategies. Mission:
Through a public-private partnership, Home for Good works to end chronic homelessness and reduce all types of homelessness over the next decade. The goal is to make homelessness
• Atypical,
• Temporary and
• Non-recurring. Values:
Home for Good values community involvement, collaboration, and inclusive and creative problem solving. Through this collaborative process outcomes will be reported and evaluated, best practices will be highlighted, and new resources identified, strengthening the homeless service system and ultimately reducing the number of people who experience homelessness in Columbus and Muscogee County. Cost Benefit to Our Community:
Not only is homelessness prevalent, it is also expensive. The greatest expense is often in the provision of emergency response services, which are far more costly than temporary or permanent housing. Other communities who have implemented a 10-year plan have seen significant savings in the area’s public systems, including reduced use of hospital emergency rooms, ambulances, EMT, fire prevention, law enforcement and other services.