Leadership Characteristics
Success in Houston was achieved primarily through cooperation between political leaders and this type of group.
What are nonprofits?
Houston stands out for housing roughly this percentage of homeless people since 2011.
What is 60%?
The initiative in Houston was aided by government funding from this level of government.
What is federal?
Homelessness in Dallas declined by 14% after it did this.
What is Copied Houston's approach?
List Any Two of the Four Traits highlighted for Annise Parker
Data-Driven Decision Maker
Pragmatic Innovator
Coalition Builder
Delegator of Expertise
Houston has housed roughly this many people since the beginning of the program.
What is 32,000?
This strategy used by the project shares a name with a Syracuse class.
What is Data-Driven Decision Making?
In contrast to Houston's ability to build apartments for $200,000 each, Los Angeles must spend this amount.
What is $837,000?
List any two of the four traits highlighted for Sylvester Turner.
Visionary and Continuity-Oriented
Politically Strategic
Cross-Jurisdictional Partner
Public Communicator
The wait time for homeless people to receive housing in Houston has fallen to this number.
What is 32?
Name any one of the two strategies highlighted as ineffective
Fragmented Social Services or Emergency Shelters
Homeless veterans in Houston used to need to wait this many days to access permanent housing
What is 720?
List any two of the four traits highlighted for Mandy Chapman Semple.
Systems Thinker
Problem-Solver
Network Facilitator
Mentor and Reformer
Of the people housed by Houston's initiative, roughly this percentage of people found positive results.
What is 90%?
Streamlined bureaucracy and removal of barriers helped people to obtain these items as crucial steps to housing.
What are IDs?
Name any one of the three ways in which organizations in Houston used to be "fragmented".
Duplicating services, competing for funds, not sharing data.
Of the three leaders highlighted, which one was not a mayor of Houston?
Mandy Chapman Semple
The organizations under The Way Home total to exceed this noteworthy number.
What is 100?
Instead of collaborating with nonprofits, government in the past and elsewhere had done this.
What is competing?
This model for addressing homelessness allowed Houston to find success where other cities did not.
What is housing first?