Office of Homelessness Prevention and Intervention
The Office of Homelessness Prevention and Intervention coordinates activities and planning for providers, stakeholders, and affected citizens to ensure an efficient and effective system offering everyone access to shelter, food, employment, housing, and other basic needs and opportunities. The office does not provide direct support services but serves as an information source and assists with problem-solving and communications for difficult situations requiring multiple resources and organizations.
The Office was created in 2014 in response to the Report of the Mayor’s Commission on Homelessness.
How do I get help?
Find out how to access information about all available services including overnight and day shelters for people experiencing an immediate crisis.
Housing Stabilization Partnership Program
As Fayette County begins to rebound from the impacts of COVID-19, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government has established a Housing Stabilization Partnership Program to minimize trauma and crisis caused by lack of secure housing.
How do I get involved?
Learn about the best ways to help and especially how to make sure efforts are not harmful or duplicated.
What’s being done?
Read about current initiatives and review data on homelessness in Lexington.
Information for partners and stakeholders
Information for people and organizations operating programs or otherwise involved in developing and delivering solutions.
News
New vouchers will help Lexington move closer to ending homelessness
Lexington took a big step toward effectively ending homelessness today through 76 new federally funded Emergency Housing Vouchers.
City prepared for arctic blast bringing ice, snow
The City’s top priority is to keep the public safe, especially in the event of power outages and ice-covered streets.
HUD Recognizes City of Lexington and Commonwealth of Kentucky for exemplary implementation of the Foster Youth Independence Initiative
New initiative helping local young people aging out of foster care and who are at extreme risk of experiencing homelessness obtain housing.