What it does
Create a community where homelessness is rare, brief, and non-recurring through strong public/private partnerships, using data to guide our strategy, and educate the public on homelessness and its solutions.
A way home for tulsa (awh4t) housing solutions leads a way home for tulsa (awh4t) in providing community planning and support for the collective response needed to effectively implement strategies for a system-wide approach to preventing and ending homelessness. Awh4t and its 60+ participating organizations work together to implement strategies to house people experiencing homelessness and support those at risk of homelessness from losing their housing. As the lead agency for awh4t, housing solutions monitors data and outcomes, and research and advances evidence-based solutions. Housing solutions also manages the local process for the annual hud continuum of care (coc) program grant competition, and oversight and technical assistance for grant recipients. Housing solutions led the coc to house a record number of people experiencing homelessness, launched a new justice initiative program focused on housing justice-involved individuals, and worked in the homelessness prevention space to stop homelessness before it starts.
Street outreach: provide outreach, engagement and system and housing navigation to individuals living in unsheltered environment not meant for habitation.
Landlord tenant resource center the landlord tenant resource center provides free services in legal information, pro bono referrals, know-your-rights information for both landlords and tenants, and referrals to housing-supportive social services. Ltrc operates the social services hub, an eviction diversion program. The social services hub is a multi-partner collaboration between restore hope ministries, legal aid services of oklahoma, iron gate and tulsa county district courts to support individuals and families facing housing instability or eviction.