“Homelessness is organic, it’s not very static.” “When Haven opened, there was a significant drop and then it stabilized,” he said. Haven for Hope has placed 4,000 people in permanent housing since it opened in 2010.
Marbut argued that flat numbers of homelessness in Bexar County show success in Haven for Hope’s efforts. So from my perspective, that’s not necessarily success.” “Whenever you look at our ‘Point in Time’ count numbers, they’ve always been pretty much the same,” she said. Those numbers have remained fairly stagnant, she said, and indicate that the problem of homelessness may be less visible but not addressed adequately. Once a year, SARAH conducts a “ Point in Time” count of people without permanent housing. Greg Abbott, Mascorro pointed to the past decade’s homeless population count in Bexar County as an indication that the organization is not the sole solution. Though Haven for Hope has been lauded as a model for other cities to emulate by people such as Gov. But you can’t just pick it up and plop in a different city and expect it to work.” Related: San Antonio to Reevaluate How It Fights Homelessness “We understand each other, and by we, I mean organizations work well with each other. “We have a fairly well-run system here because we’ve done it for a while,” she said. The two organizations have fundamental disagreements on how best to address homelessness, she said, but the network of care providers in San Antonio work well together. Mascorro has not worked personally with Marbut, but SARAH works closely with Haven for Hope. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to allocate federal funding to combat homelessness. The Rivard Report was unable to reach Kenneth Wilson, the current chief executive at Haven for Hope, for comment at the time of publication.īrenda Mascorro serves as the executive director of the South Alamo Regional Alliance on Homelessness (SARAH), the agency assigned by the U.S.
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