With the help of their Built for Zero improvement advisor, the Abilene team developed a command center and brought the group together every other week. They set out to accomplish a bigger goal: to end veteran homelessness. They were content, but they were not satisfied. At the end of the spring, they had exceeded their goal, housing 64 people. The various organizations all rallied around this shared goal, meeting weekly to build accountability. That all changed when Abilene embarked on an ambitious Mayor’s Challenge to house 50 people in 100 days. “People were operating and doing their programs, but very much alone,” says Michelle Parrish, the grants director at the Community Foundation of Abilene. Abilene was like many communities where resources, efforts, and insight into the nature of homelessness were siloed across many agencies. In many communities, there is no single agency or organization accountable for ending homelessness. Abilene, Texas, ended veteran homelessness in 2019 as part of Built for Zero.
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