Through the Housing and Urban Development EDI-Neighborhood Initiatives Community Planning & Development Account, which will go to the Homeless Support Services of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. In accordance with Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s ten year plan to end homelessness, the Urban Ministry Center (UMC) is implementing a two-year pilot project for providing permanent supportive housing to the chronically homeless population. The UMC is committed to leading the community from a shelter-based homeless services model to a housing-based model by developing the County’s first Permanent Supportive Housing complex with 80-100 efficiency apartments for the chronically homeless. This project meets local, state, and federal government priorities as it aims to provide housing to the less fortunate. Charlotte-Mecklenburg has more than 6,000 homeless (over 500-600 are chronically homeless) yet less than 800 shelter beds. The shelters are frequently overcrowded and turning homeless persons away. The Ten Year Plan has recommended that the community shift service strategy away from a shelter-based model to a supportive service, housing-based model in order to reduce this growing problem and overflow at the shelters. The project provides a proper use of taxpayer’s funds on the local, state, and federal levels as it provides needed services for senior citizens.