Directions Home

The City of Fort Worth and its partner agencies are working to make homelessness a rare, short-term and non-recurring experience in Cowtown by 2018 through the Directions Home program.

Currently, only a third of the more than $30 million in private and public funds spent each year on homelessness are responding in a proactive manner.  Directions Home seeks to focus efforts countywide to respond in the most economically prudent and compassionate way possible by:

• Increasing the supply of permanent supportive housing
• Expanding opportunities and service linked with accountability
• Developing and operating a central resource facility
• Coordinating and expanding homelessness prevention initiatives
• Supporting and strengthening existing public, private and faith-based efforts
• Mitigating the negative community impacts of homelessness
• Leading, educating and advocating for change

• Public Comment Sought on Funding Priorities for Programs and Services in Support of the Directions Home Plan to End Chronic Homelessness 
• Multi-year trends point to success 
• Homeless count shows more people moving into stable housing 
• Quarterly Performance Reports

Data and Reports

• Evaluation of Directions Home Supportive Housing and the Use of Critical Service Systems: Preliminary Results 
• Supportive Housing: Neighborhood Impact

Program Contact

Otis Thornton
Homelessness Program Director
Phone:817-392-7552

Agencies

• Tarrant County Homeless Coalition
• Texas Homelessness Network
• U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness
• HUD Homeless Resource Exchange 
• United Nations Human Settlements Programme
• Corporation for Supportive Housing
• National Alliance to End Homelessness