Over the past decade, the Springfield and Sangamon County community has received the lowest amount of U.S. Housing and Urban Development funding to address homelessness among Continuums of Care in the state of Illinois. HUD utilizes an annual Continuum of Care competition and application process to determine the amount of funding communities receive through their […]
Josh Sabo
Josh Sabo is executive director of Heartland HOUSED, which serves as the backbone organization tasked with developing strategy, supporting implementation activities and facilitating the collaborative work of the Heartland Continuum of Care with the purpose of effectively addressing homelessness in Sangamon County.
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Organizations work to reach “functional zero” homelessness by 2028
Springfield and Sangamon County’s 2022-2028 Strategic Plan to Address Homelessness was finalized in the fall of 2022. The plan’s ambitious goals aim to help our community reach “functional zero” homelessness in 2028. Functional zero is the point when a community’s homeless system of care can prevent homelessness whenever possible and ensure that when homelessness does […]
