Our Goal: Improve access to safe, stable, and affordable housing in Sheboygan County.
Objective 1: Increase community awareness of homelessness and renting barriers
- Develop and execute an outreach plan for key stakeholders to educate them about homelessness and renting barriers
- Identify local lived experience experts and create opportunities for them to share their stories
Objective 2: Enhance housing (buying and renting) navigation resources
- Create a toolkit specific to housing resources to provide education on advocacy
- Work with Access and Navigation Action Team to refine and distribute housing navigation resources
- Increase the number of agencies that participate with Coordinated Entry
Objective 3: Promote housing regulations that support renters’ rights
- Advocate for local eviction laws and policy change
- Launch the Renters’ Association
- Facilitate ongoing conversations between Renters’ and Landlords’ Associations
Objective 4: Enhance resources for persons experiencing homelessness
- Adopt common/shared vocabulary and definitions
- Advocate for creation of holistic case management and wrap around services
- Develop out-of-the-box training and education to support businesses/organizations on how they can interact with and serve those experiencing homelessness with dignity, empathy, and compassion