Pathways Home

In 2012 the Texas Interagency Council for the Homeless (TICH) published Texas’ first state strategic plan to address homelessness called Pathways Home: A Framework for Coordinating State Administered Programs with Continuum of Care Planning to Address Homelessness in Texas (PDF). 

To better understand how Texas’ infrastructure is positioned to address the complexities of housing instability, the Texas Interagency Council for the Homeless initiated a study in January 2011. The Council convened work groups composed of representatives from nonprofit organizations and eleven state agencies, analyzed state data, reviewed national research, and gathered public input through ten hearings. Pathways Home presents findings from this study, which indicates that greater coordination of employment and health service resources with local housing programs would expand the state’s capacity to prevent and end episodes of homelessness. In response to the study’s findings, Pathways Home proposes a framework to help more of Texas’ most vulnerable citizens enter and remain in safe housing.

• 2019 Annual Report (PDF)
• 2018 Annual Report (PDF)
• 2017 Annual Report (PDF)
• 2016 Annual Report (PDF)
• 2015 Annual Report (PDF)
• 2014 Annual Report (PDF)
• 2013 Annual Report (PDF)
• 2012 Annual Report and Pathways Home Addendum (PDF)

TICH identified a need to revise Pathways Home in 2021 to develop an updated framework that is better suited to prevent and end homelessness in Texas (the Plan). These revisions may include, but are not limited to, recommendations recognizing changes to the delivery of mainstream and targeted homeless services, changes within the state and federal policy environment surrounding homelessness, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on homeless response efforts.

Prioritization of a more comprehensive range of actionable steps needed to ensure Texans enter and remain in safe and decent housing is expected to be included in the Plan.