Department of Housing
2023-2028 Continuum of Care (CoC)
Homelessness Plan
Year 1 Progress Report
July 8, 2024
Department of Housing
PASADENA COC HOMELESSNESS PLAN
The Continuum of Care (CoC)
Homelessness Plan, approved
by the CoC Board in February
2024, aims to make
homelessness in Pasadena rare,
brief, and non-recurring.
2 Department of Housing
Action Areas
SYSTEMWIDE
PLANNING
EQUITY &
RESPECT
CRISIS
RESPONSE
HOUSING &
SUPPORTS
PREVENTION
The Homelessness Plan is built around five action areas, with goals and strategies for each area.
Pasadena CoC Homelessness Plan
3 The full Homeless Plan can be found at
pasadenapartnership.org/homelessness-plan.
Systemwide
Planning
Equity &
Respect
Crisis
Response
Housing &
Supports
Prevention
2028 Homelessness Plan Goals
Goal 1: 50% Reduction in Annual Homelessness
1,208
1,0971,208
1,051
951
854 815
716
604
2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028
Results Target
Results: 9% reduction in annual homelessness
Target: 13% reduction in annual homelessness
4 Systemwide
Planning
Equity &
Respect
Crisis
Response
Housing &
Supports
Prevention
Homelessness Plan Goals
Goal 2a: Parity in Housing Program Outcomes for Black People 5 Permanent Supporting Housing
Successful Exits
Rapid Rehousing
Lease-Up Rates
58% 62%
Other Races Black People
71%
58%
Other Races Black People
Systemwide
Planning
Equity &
Respect
Crisis
Response
Housing &
Supports
Prevention
Homelessness Plan Goals
*Hispanic / Latino Share of 2024 Homeless Count 6
Goal: 46%*
32%
29%
40%
30%
Emergency
Shelter
Permanent
Housing
2022 2023
Goal 2b
Parity in Access to
Services for
Hispanic/Latino People
Systemwide
Planning
Equity &
Respect
Crisis
Response
Housing &
Supports
Prevention
Homelessness Plan Goals
Goal 3: Year-Round Shelter Beds for 80% of Unhoused
36% 40%
36% 32%
45%
49%
69%
81%
2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028
Results Target
Results: Year-round beds for 40% of unhoused
Target: Year-round beds for 32% of unhoused
7 310
410
310
211 208
148
207 208
165
2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028
Results Target
Systemwide
Planning
Equity &
Respect
Crisis
Response
Housing &
Supports
Prevention
Homelessness Plan Goals
Goal 4: Permanently House 1,110 People
8 Results: 410 people permanently housed
Target: 211 people permanently housed
Systemwide
Planning
Equity &
Respect
Crisis
Response
Housing &
Supports
Prevention
Homelessness Plan Goals
Goal 5: 15% Reduction in Inflows
97 137
97 107 102 97 92 87 82
2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028
Results Targets
Results: 137 People Newly Unhoused
Target: 107 People Newly Unhoused
9 Department of Housing
Fine-Tuning Homelessness Plan Targets
With two years of data, we plan to revise our yearly prevention and housing targets to ensure we stay on track to achieve a 50% reduction in homelessness.
10 Despite housing nearly twice as many people as anticipated, our decrease was only 9% instead of the projected 13%, indicating the need for more ambitious housing goals.
Moreover, higher-than-anticipated inflows underscore the urgency to ramp up prevention efforts.
Insight 2
Insight 1
Department of Housing
Year One Successes
In year one…
Nearly double the anticipated
number of people were
permanently housed
We achieved a 9% reduction in the
number of people experiencing
homelessness annually.
These results show that concerted
efforts can move the needle in
meaningful ways.
11 Department of Housing
Looking Forward: 2024 Projects
12 Heritage Square South,
a new permanent supportive
housing building for seniors 55+,
opened in April 2024 and will
be fully leased by mid-summer.
Phase I of the Transitional
Aged Youth (TAY) housing
project
will provide interim housing
for six youth, with a
preference for PCC students,
beginning this summer.
A new Safe Parking program
will open on All Saints
Church’s parking lot on the
corner of Walnut St. and
Euclid Ave. in fall 2024.
The Bad Weather Shelter
will expand its capacity to
be able to serve more
people during inclement
weather this winter.