5 Year Master Plan for Ending Homelessness in Albuquerque
The “Five-Year Master Plan to End Street Homelessness” in Albuquerque addresses the urgent and complex crisis of unsheltered individuals struggling with addiction, serious mental illness, or both. The core problem is the need for a comprehensive, scalable, and results-driven system to move these most vulnerable residents off the streets and into long-term stability. The current system is fragmented, and while dedicated, it lacks the scalable and results-driven infrastructure needed to clear the streets. The plan provides a unified vision to correct this, moving away from paying for programs and instead committing to a clear public-private-faith partnership to achieve verified, sustained outcomes over the next five years.
A Successful Model
The key finding is that the underlying model, demonstrated by State of the Art Healing (SAH) over the past 18 months, is effective. SAH has already engaged over 1,000 people and has about 33% of them in stable housing, achieving this primarily through Medicaid billing and without City operating funds. This success is the foundation of the plan’s ambitious primary goal: to scale this model ten-fold to engage 5,000 people and house 50–70% of them for 1–3 years. The five-step plan centers on adopting the proven ‘Built for Zero’ framework, anchored by a single, integrated ‘By-Name List’ database for real-time tracking, and shifting public investment entirely to results-based contracts that pay per person stabilized, rather than funding bureaucracy.
Read the full analysis to see how Albuquerque can successfully implement a “Street to Stability” pathway for thousands of individuals, ensuring every dollar of public and private investment is directly tied to measurable outcomes like getting people into treatment and stable housing for the long term. This plan is a call for political commitment, capital investment in land and technology, and the mobilization of the community to finally reach functional zero street homelessness for this population.