INDIANAPOLIS — The Coalition for Homelessness Intervention and Prevention (CHIP Indy) and the City of Indianapolis announced recently that Streets to Home Indy has connected 114 neighbors who were living on the streets to housing since the initiative’s start in July 2025. Streets to Home Indy is a community-wide model for ending unsheltered homelessness in Indianapolis, focused on rapidly placing individuals into housing with case management and supportive services.
The Streets to Home Indy initiative centers on targeted, intensive, and highly coordinated street outreach, housing navigation, unit acquisition, centralized rental administration, and case management. In Phase 1, the initiative engages unsheltered individuals, identifies housing opportunities, and connects neighbors directly from the streets into housing with services that focus on long-term housing stability.
Once individuals are housed from a site or zone, that area is cleaned, cleared, restored to its original use, and maintained by the City of Indianapolis. This process is also being utilized in areas where there may not be standalone encampments, such as in the Downtown Indianapolis.
On average, teams are engaging with unhoused neighbors and moving them into units in 27 days. Prior to the collaborative efforts of Streets to Home Indy, the timeline for moving unhoused neighbors into housing was about 100- 150 days.
Phase 1 of the public-private partnership model will continue in 2026 until the goal of housing 300-350 unsheltered people is achieved. Camp closures will only be announced upon completion.