Updated October 2020:
In March 2019, Carl Falconer, MDHA President and CEO, called for all stakeholders in Dallas and Collin Counties, without exception, to rally toward one single vision for ending homelessness. We must, he said, build household incomes, as well as safe, affordable, accessible housing. He called on system and community stakeholders to join MDHA in setting standards, increasing efficiencies in the system, and improving data gathering. He stressed that Dallas must follow the data wherever it takes us and change our programs if the data so warrants, and he introduced his idea for what he called the D-ONE Plan.
The D-ONE Plan, released in its final form in the latter half of 2019, was created by MDHA, in consultation with a broad array of community stakeholders, by synthesizing ideas and priorities from several extant local strategic plans. In 2020-2022 we are operationalizing the D-ONE Plan through a collective action plan, as our community transforms its homeless response system.
