Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance Revenue and Competitors

The Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance (MDHA) leads the development of an effective homeless response system that will make the experience of homelessness in Dallas and Collin Counties rare, brief, and non-recurring. MDHA brings together more than 85 shelter, housing and supportive services programs in retooling homeless services into a crisis response system. MDHA’s mission rests on the 2009 Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing (HEARTH) Act, and Home, Together (the successor to Opening Doors) the national strategic plan to end homelessness, established under the Act. MDHA has five main statutory roles: Facilitate $17 million of Federal Continuum of Care (CoC) funding annually, for homeless services programs; Administer the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS), a community-wide database, that drives improvement of homeless services programs, serving 23,562 persons; Maintain a count of persons experiencing homelessness; Maintain an inventory of housing and shelter beds for the homeless and formerly homeless; Develop and quarterback an effective unified homeless response system, where all homeless services programs work together to make homelessness rare, brief and nonrecurring. Over the course of 2015-2017, MDHA focused on building the necessary components of an effective unified homeless response system. In mid-2017, MDHA shifted its focus to utilizing the system to better house people quickly and permanently, while working with experts and innovators to continue to improve it. At the end of 2018, the MDHA Board of Directors appointed Carl Falconer, a Florida-based renowned expert in the arena of ending homelessness, as MDHA’s President and CEO. In 2019, Falconer released the D-ONE Plan, which was created by MDHA, in consultation with a broad array of community stakeholders, by synthesizing ideas and priorities from several previous strategic plans. This plan continues to guide the work of the homeless response system in 2020-2021.