DALLAS — The streets in downtown Dallas have transformed over the last several years. In 2024, the city of Dallas invested $30 million to close homeless encampments in public areas and move residents into permanent housing through The Street to Home initiative.
The Street to Home Initiative is a Dallas-based collaborative program led by Housing Forward. The organization partners with other nonprofit organizations, law enforcement, and mental health and substance abuse agencies to provide permanent housing solutions and services to keep people off the street.
“We have permanently resolved all encampments downtown,” Sarah Khan, president and CEO of Housing Forward told WFAA regarding Phase I of the initiative. “Our friends at DDI are doing daily streets counts and those have decreased by 87 percent.”…