Mission

City Net establishes, facilitates and provides backbone leadership to city-wide and regional Homeless Collaboratives.  These are multi-sector collaborative with the goal of ending street-level homelessness for most homeless neighbors in the city or region.

City Net Homeless Collaboratives consist of agencies from city government, law enforcement and other city first responders, incumbent work groups, nonprofit organizations, civic organizations, businesses, homeless neighbors and the faith community, all working together on shared goals, a common agenda, shared measurement and mutually reinforcing activities.

Shared goals are determined locally, but typically include goals such as moving homeless neighbors off the streets and on the path to permanent housing, including addressing the most difficult and costly cases, coordination of homelessness activities in the city and region, reducing community costs related to homelessness, and providing linkages to existing resources in the region.