Connecting our most vulnerable neighbors with a stable place to call home, not displacement.

Being housed with wraparound services means someone is not only placed in a home but is intentionally supported with whatever services they need to stay housed and rebuild their life.

Everyone we support through Streets to Home Indy receives comprehensive, personalized support services designed to help them remain housed and thrive long-term. The services are intensive, holistic, and individualized, and begin day one when a person or family is housed. Support services may include case management, mental health and substance use support, health care, income and employment assistance, life skills training, legal support, or help with reintegrating into their community.

Streets to Home Indy is using rapid rehousing to connect more than 300 individuals experiencing unsheltered homelessness with housing. Some will transition to permanent supportive housing or a long-term voucher, while others will secure safe, stable housing by reuniting with loved ones, moving in with a roommate, or finding a more affordable apartment. The Streets to Home Indy ensures all individuals receive case management from day one and are supported to effectively transition after 12 months. Communities implementing similar models see that around 85-90% of clients don’t return to homelessness even after their subsidy ends.

Direct-to-Housing Encampment Response, commonly called camp decommissioning, allows communities to manage public health and safety while compassionately ending homelessness for the vast majority of people living outside. In this method, people aren’t being displaced and moved to a new outdoor location. They are being matched with housing and services.

This model, being used in the STHI initiative focuses on one single location and group of people for an extended period of time. This surge of focus and resources allows communities to house up to 50 or more people and close an encampment within 4-6 weeks. Once everyone is housed from the encampment, it is closed . Landscaping, barriers, reactivation, and patrols can be used to enforce restrictions on camping, while the homelessness response system continues housing people site by site.

Yes! While the direct-to-housing encampment response is a major focus of Phase 1, STHI addresses all those living unsheltered throughout Marion County. This is not just a “downtown initiative.” We will be working in all districts of Marion County to rapidly rehouse our most vulnerable neighbors, whether they’re within a large, visible encampment or a single person sleeping outside on their own.

The Housing Hub, Indianapolis’ new low-barrier shelter, will fill critical gaps in the shelter system— serving individuals with pets, male-led households, and families often excluded from existing shelters.

Open 24/7 with no sobriety, ID, or religious requirements, the Hub connects guests directly to permanent housing through case management and flexible stay durations. It plays a vital role in ensuring homelessness is rare, brief, and nonrecurring.

Earlier this summer, the Indianapolis Continuum of Care updated and approved the 2025-2028 Indianapolis Community Plan to End Homelessness, providing a strategic blueprint for the community and laying out how to achieve this vision. Priority One, Core Strategy 1.1 in the Community Plan focuses efforts on creating direct housing pathways for those on the streets through the Streets to Home Indy initiative. You can read the 2025-2028 Indianapolis Community Plan to End Homelessness here.

Organizations and individuals interested in supporting Streets to Home Indy can get connected with details about Streets to Home Indy, including how to support at chipindy.org/streetstohomeindy.