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.1. As reported by the Texas Interagency Council for the Homeless <br />Need for a Plan (TICH), there were 200,000 homeless people in Texas in 1999 (1% of <br />to End Chronic <br />HOInoI8SSI18SS the total population), According to the results of a homeless survey by <br />TICH in 2000, 15 percent of the survey participants were homeless for <br />more than five years. Texas had the third largest homeless population, <br />according to the 2000 Census, with 7,608 persons in emergency and <br />transitional shelters, behind New York (31,586) and California (27,701) <br />Corpus Christi reflects the complex characteristics and special needs of <br />all homeless people elsewhere in Texas. In 2004, 39 percent of the <br />participants in a homeless survey in Corpus Christi were chronically <br />homeless. The inability to provide for their own basic needs (housing, <br />food, clothing, medical care) is common to all chronic homeless people, <br />Some homeless people require limited assistance in order to regain <br />permanent housing and self-sufficiency, Others, especially people with <br />physical or mental disabilities, require extensive and long-term support. <br />Chronic homelessness is a complicated problem rising from the <br />changing social, economic, political, and cultural conditions of the past <br />20 to 25 years. This plan is an effort to make systemic changes and <br />integrate to the homeless services system in order to end chronic <br />homelessness in seven years, Following the initiative of the National <br />Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH), homeless service providers in <br />Carpus Christi have stepped forward in making the homeless assistance <br />system more outcome-driven by tailoring solution-oriented approaches <br /> <br />