On Our Way Home: Missoula Community Houselessness Strategy 2025-2028

We are excited to announce that On Our Way Home: Missoula Community Houselessness Strategy 2025-2028 is here! The strategy was created by a group of 16 community members representing: housing and houseless services, behavioral health, medical care, Missoula Coordinated Entry System, property management, faith community, neighborhood councils, and more. People with lived expertise of being unhoused in Missoula currently or in the past comprised nearly one-third of group representatives. Review the full strategy and the one page overview to learn more.

Homebase worked closely with community partners and City of Missoula staff to lead our community through the process of crafting a collective strategy that is dynamic and adaptable to changing conditions. Homebase began working with Missoula in January 2024 and deployed a variety of tools and mediums to help guide community members, service providers, neighbors with lived expertise of being unhoused, and local government towards a strategy. Tools included: interviews, focus groups, a town hall, a leadership group, guidance on best practices, examples of models in other communities, and much more. This process was of and for the community and we're grateful to all of you who showed up to share your perspective over the last year!

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Community partners across Missoula worked together to address houselessness under Reaching Home: Missoula’s 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness until it reached its lifecycle in October 2022. The plan, launched in 2012, was robust and included 10 goals driving how the Missoula community devised programs and projects to meet the needs of Missoulians who are unhoused, ultimately making instances of houselessness rare, brief, and one-time only. Upon its ending, JG Research & Evaluation conducted an Evaluation of the 10-Year Plan in partnership with City of Missoula Houseless Programs. The evaluation was completed and released to the public in March 2023.