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.

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Extreme heat weather plan

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.

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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. 

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How do I get involved?

Learn about the best ways to help and especially how to make sure efforts are not harmful or duplicated.

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What’s being done?

Read about current initiatives and review data on homelessness in Lexington.

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Information for partners and stakeholders

Information for people and organizations operating programs or otherwise involved in developing and delivering solutions.

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News

Volunteers sought for 2022 LexCount

Volunteers will visit dozens of outdoor locations where persons experiencing homelessness might be found to sleep overnight.

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.

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