This session explores how Geographically Targeted Housing Outreach offers a compassionate and fiscally responsible alternative to criminalizing homelessness. Highlighting Community Rebuilders’ evidence-based Housing First approach, it demonstrates how connecting unsheltered individuals to permanent housing and essential services reduces street homelessness, improves health outcomes, and revitalizes community spaces. Attendees will learn how this approach fosters inclusive communities while reducing costs associated with enforcement and addressing systemic disparities.