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This issue of Homeless Network News covers the issue of communities creating plans to end homelessness. As Interagency Council on Homelessness Director, Philip Mangano said in his address to the U.S. Conference of Mayors in January 2003, “When we recognize a problem in our cities, we make a plan to address it.” Cities all across the nation are taking a serious look at the homeless assistance system as well as broader public systems toward strategies that will prevent and end homelessness. Though coordination with top city officials, nonprofits, and the business community, many communities are starting to think about homelessness as a finite and solvable problem that can be that ended.
The following Texas cities have plans to end chronic homelessness adopted by their Mayor and/or City Council:
| City of El Paso |
approved April 7, 2004 |
| City of Dallas/Dallas County |
approved June 23, 2004 |
| City of Corpus Christi |
approved August 18, 2004 |
| City of Austin |
approved September 2, 2004 |
The following communities are in varying stages of the planning process:
| Beaumont |
| Cameron County |
| Donna |
| Edcouch |
| Galveston/Galveston County |
| Groves |
| Hardin County |
| Houston/Harris County |
| Jefferson County |
| Laredo |
| Lubbock |
| McAllen |
| Mercedes |
| Mission |
| Nederland |
| Orange |
| Orange County |
| Plano/Collin County |
| Port Arthur |
| Port Neches |
| Progresso |
| Rose City |
| San Antonio |
| Sugar Land |
| Tyler |
| Victoria |
| Vidor |
| Waco |
| Weslaco |
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