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We can’t solve unsheltered homelessness everywhere. But we can solve it here.

Streets to Home Indy is a public-private partnership that aims to end chronic and unsheltered homelessness in Indianapolis by 2028. The initiative, championed by Mayor Joe Hogsett’s Leadership Council on Homelessness and led by the Coalition for Homelessness Intervention & Prevention aims to house 300-350 unsheltered individuals over the next 12 months. Streets to Home Indy is supported by the City of Indianapolis, Mayor’s Leadership Council on Homelessness, the Blueprint Council, and Continuum of Care Partner Agencies.

In the summer of 2025, The Indianapolis Continuum of Care updated and simplified Indianapolis Community Plan to End Homelessness for 2025-2028, providing a strategic blueprint for our community and laying out how we will achieve our collective vision that everyone has the right to be housed and connected to care.

Priority One, Core Strategy 1.1 in the Community Plan focuses our efforts on creating direct housing pathways for individuals experiencing homelessness through the Streets to Home Indy initiative.

This partnership will provide furnished apartments with dedicated services to help our neighbors transition from the streets to home. Our alternative to criminalization, Streets to Home Indy is focused on delivering lasting results to the community and paving a path to stability for individuals who have been living on our streets for too long.

Why This Will Work.

350. That’s about how many people are living unsheltered, on our streets in Indy. They’re not in shelters; they’re not couch-surfing; they’re on the streets. The right thing to do first—and the smartest thing to do first—is to get each of these people into a place they can call home.

And now’s the time to do it. We have the systems in place to make this solution not only effective, but sustainable, securing an outcome that supports people and prevents them returning to the streets. Successful outcomes in Cleveland and Milwaukee can chart our path. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we transformed the way we did our most vital work—connecting vulnerable people to permanent housing—building new capacities to move hundreds of people out of shelter and off the streets into housing with supportive services.

Now we have insight and expertise, along with the will to do something truly consequential. We also have unprecedented backing from the city as well as our local philanthropic, business and faith communities. And, we’re doing it differently this time. New partnerships will allow our community to more actively manage Indy’s vital urban spaces and prevent encampments from reforming, all while avoiding the criminalization of our community’s most vulnerable.

The partners, the model and the momentum are all in place. We can go from having people waiting for housing to having housing waiting for people. Everyone is house-able. Learn more about our plan.

Be Apart of the Solution

We can’t solve unsheltered homelessness everywhere, but with your help we can solve it HERE! Your donation to Streets to Home Indy helps move our neighbors from uncertainty to stability through permanent housing paired with any wraparound services they need to then stay housed. 

To achieve the initiative’s goals, Indianapolis’ homelessness services community must align efforts and resources in partnership with city agencies, philanthropic funders, faith-based organizations, and the corporate sector.

Together, we can build a city where everyone has a secure, safe place to call home. Your gift supports the end of street homelessness in Indianapolis.

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The WHAT

Streets to Home Indy is a phased approach to ending chronic, unsheltered homelessness in Marion County. Phase one is a 12-month, $8.1 million targeted effort to end street homelessness for over 300 individuals, leveraging political and civic will and securing local investment to expand rental subsidies and supportive services.

  • Phase 1 – Focus on Street Homelessness | Now through 2026
    • House over 300 unsheltered people in permanent housing
    • Increase service capacity across the system including street outreach, housing navigation, and case management
  • Phase 2 – Focus on housing people from shelters | Begins in 2026
    • House people from shelter system in permanent supportive housing
    • Work with the Indianapolis Housing Agency to restore and secure homeless preference vouchers
    • Sustainability plan for Phase 1
  • Phase 3 – Focus on Diversion | 2027-2028
    • Divert additional people from entering the system
    • Sustainability plan for Phases 1 & 2
    • Identify long-term dedicated funding, including leveraging vouchers and Medicaid

The WHY

Our CoC Vision: We believe everyone has the right to be housed and connected to care.

Unfortunately, this is not the reality today. Data shows us that chronic and unsheltered homelessness have actually been increasing in Indianapolis. We must do something different.

The HOW

Using the infrastructure we built through the HomeNow Indy approach, we will apply best practices in street outreach, housing navigation, housing acquisition and landlord engagement, centralized rental administration, and housing case management to accelerate permanent housing and supportive services to house people directly from the streets. Once individuals are successfully housed through the initiative, dedicated teams will prevent the re-emergence of encampments and swiftly connect others with the support they need to leave the streets—ensuring that Indy’s public spaces remain welcoming to all.

HomeNow Indy allows us to innovate and improve our impact in the places where strategy and resources come together.

The WHO

  • CHIP – Lead agency (project management, system modeling, procurement, contracting, performance tracking, communications)
  • City of Indianapolis – Local public investment
  • Mayor’s Leadership Council on Homelessness – Political will, alignment of civic, philanthropic, business, faith, and government, fundraising, sustainability, champions
  • Blueprint Council – System alignment, system performance, policy, and compliance
  • Continuum of Care Partner Agencies – Implementation design, service provision, data tracking and quality
  • RDOOR – Rental administration, flexible funding, housing navigation and landlord engagement
  • Clutch Consulting Group
  • Funds/ Funders
    • Indianapolis Foundation | Housing to Recovery Fund
    • City of Indianapolis
    • Philanthropic, faith, corporate, and individual funders

The WHEN

Phase 1 of Streets to Home Indy is a year-long initiative, starting in Summer 2025, to house 300 unsheltered individuals, to decommission camps once everyone is housed, and to sustain people in housing

Streets to Home Indy is part of the Community Plan to End Homelessness, and an initiative from HomeNow Indy.