Destination: Home
Destination Home 2030
Our new strategic plan is here!
A new 5-year strategic plan was approved in March by the Evansville-Vanderburgh Commission on Homelessness.
Destination Home 2030 is a comprehensive plan to alleviate and ultimately end homelessness in Vanderburgh County.
Three Main Goals
Reduce overall homelessness in Evansville and Vanderburgh County by 20% by 2030.
Achieve “functional zero” for chronic, veteran and family homelessness. Functional zero means fewer people experience homelessness and, if they do, it’s rare and brief.
Launch a public data dashboard to track DH2030 progress and promote transparency.
History of Destination: Home
Evansville made a formal commitment in 2002 to end homelessness in our community. We set out to develop a 10-year strategic action plan called Destination: Home to guide us as we worked to alleviate and ultimately end homelessness in Evansville.
Destination: Home was robust, taking about two years to complete. It was created using input from subject matter experts, formerly homeless individuals, service providers, and the general public, and tons of data and research. Over 200 people participated in the development of Evansville’s first strategic plan to end homelessness.
Destination: Home included:
- A deep-dive into the root causes of homelessness
- Who was most at risk for homelessness in our community
- What they needed to achieve stability
- What resources were currently available and unavailable locally to these individuals
It was a big deal, helping Evansville shift from a reactive to a proactive approach to preventing, diverting and ending homelessness. The original plan was used as the foundation for updates in 2012, 2022 and 2025.
Our Plans To-Date
We encourage you to review our original 2002 plan to end homelessness, along with the 2012 and 2022 updates.
Destination: Home 2012 Recommendations
Destination: Home 2022 Recommendations
2025 Destination: Home Plan (Current Plan)
*Using funds from the American Rescue Plan, we held a special conference in 2022 to review the state of homelessness in Evansville.
History of Destination: Home
Evansville made a formal commitment in 2002 to end homelessness in our community. We set out to develop a 10-year strategic action plan called Destination: Home to guide us as we worked to alleviate and ultimately end homelessness in Evansville.
Destination: Home was robust, taking about two years to complete. It was created using input from subject matter experts, formerly homeless individuals, service providers, and the general public, and tons of data and research. Over 200 people participated in the development of Evansville’s first strategic plan to end homelessness.
Destination: Home included:
- A deep-dive into the root causes of homelessness
- Who was most at risk for homelessness in our community
- What they needed to achieve stability
- What resources were currently available and unavailable locally to these individuals
It was a big deal, helping Evansville shift from a reactive to a proactive approach to preventing, diverting and ending homelessness. The original plan was used as the foundation for updates in 2012, 2022 and 2025.
Our Plans To-Date
We encourage you to review our original 2002 plan to end homelessness, along with the 2012 and 2022 updates.
Destination: Home 2012 Recommendations
Destination: Home 2022 Recommendations
2025 Destination: Home Plan (Current Plan)
*Using funds from the American Rescue Plan, we held a special conference in 2022 to review the state of homelessness in Evansville.