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An outreach operation within the mayor's administrative authority; gated on a validated fiscal model and labor agreements.
The problem
Services that wait behind an office door miss the people who can't get through it. Trust isn't built with a flyer — it's built by showing up, in the same places, with the same faces.
The plan
Multidisciplinary street-outreach teams — combining housing specialists, health workers, and peers with lived experience — will build relationships with people living outside and connect them to the full Dignity First pathway.
Staffing begins within the first 100 days under the finalized operating protocol, and teams are measured on relationships and placements, not contacts alone.
How you’ll know it’s working
- Neighbors engaged in sustained outreach relationships
- Referrals to housing, health, and benefits services
- Placements into emergency housing
- Transitions into permanent housing
- Team staffing and retention rates
From the Blueprint
- Each team combines a social worker, peer navigator, health screener, and housing specialist.
- Peer partners with lived experience are hired directly onto outreach teams.
- A handheld case management app with offline sync connects to a real-time housing availability API.
- The dignity checklist: introduce yourself, listen, make a concrete offer, do not take belongings.
- Refusals are documented with a follow-up visit in 2–3 days — engagement continues.
- Timeline: 3–4 teams hired and trained in days 0–90; app and feed in days 60–90; citywide in 3–6 months.
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Sources and research conditions
S01 pp. 249-251
SOURCE-SUPPORTED; FISCAL MODEL
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