Orange County NC Website
Browse       Search
- Discharge Planning should be improved, and <br />- The flow of incentives should favor helping people with the <br />most complex problems. <br />Step 3.Open the Back Door <br />- An adequate supply of appropriate housing should be <br />developed and subsidized, <br />- Quickly re-house homeless persons, and <br />- Specifically address the needs of the chronically homeless, <br />transitionally homeless, and episodically homeless. <br />Step 4. Build the Infrastructure <br />- Increase the supply of affordable housing, <br />- Increase incomes to pay for basic needs, and <br />- Build appropriate services, <br />Plannglg Homeless Issues Partnership Inc. (HIP) is the local homeless <br />PPOCBSS coalition in Corpus Christi and Nueces County. HIP facilitates the <br />Continuum of Care planning process, Corpus Christi recently passed <br />a 1/8-cent sales tax, which is estimated to generate $500,000 for <br />affordable housing developments for low-income residents. Over the <br />last three years, Corpus Christi has added 183 affordable homes, 30 <br />are under construction by the Corpus Christi Housing Authority, and <br />30 new homes were completed by the Nueces County Community <br />Action Agency. Providers in the area have increased their <br />transitional housing bed-capacity by 13 beds. HIP conducted a <br />homeless survey involving 374 total participants in 2003. NIP and <br />United Way of the Coastal Bend conducted a Focus group forum on <br />,lune 10, 2003 involving more than 300 interested agencies, <br />v <br />