Our History
The DRC story began on a spring day in 1997, when bestselling author and former newspaper reporter Jeff Guinn stepped from a downtown bus station to spend a week living on the streets of Fort Worth. His harrowing, first-hand account of street life was published on June 8, 1997 and revealed heartbreaking gaps in help for the homeless. Guinn’s story opened eyes to the human cost of homelessness, and civic leaders responded, opening the DRC as Day Resource Center for the Homeless in 1999.
In 2015, the agency rebranded as the DRC to underscore its leadership in housing strategies for ending homelessness and its new mission: to provide respectful, responsible, and effective community-based solutions to help individuals and families emerge from homelessness as productive, healthy people. It exited shelter services in December 2016 to focus on housing solutions.
After managing the community’s overflow shelter during the COVID pandemic, the DRC discovered that many people living unsheltered were outside of the traditional service model in Tarrant County. In response, the DRC founded the Street Outreach program specifically to bring housing services to those living unsheltered.
Our Mission
The mission of the DRC is to provide respectful, responsible, and effective community-based solutions to help individuals and families emerge from homelessness as productive, healthy people.
Our Vision
The DRC envisions an end to homelessness achieved through investments that make permanent shelter a reality for all who need it.
Our Philosophy
The DRC believes that Housing First makes housing last.
What is Housing First?
Housing First places housing before other life challenges, allowing people the opportunity to make life changes, such as securing employment or improving their health, without the daily stressors of homelessness.
Housing First saves money.
Housing First improves lives.
Housing First creates a vibrant community.
We have a choice: we can spend millions to merely manage homelessness, or invest to end it.
Housing First is the choice of greatest value to individuals and our community.
Today
DRC Solutions, also known as the DRC, is a pioneer and provider of critical outreach, housing, case management, and safety-net services—programs essential to ending homelessness in Tarrant County.
The DRC provides critical services of essential, evidence-based solutions that house people experiencing homelessness, set the stage for housing, or satisfy unmet needs in the community. The DRC regularly acts as “the safety net’s safety net,” taking on projects and responsibilities at the request of local authorities when there is no other organization willing or able to meet urgent needs.
All of the DRC’s programs approach the issue of homelessness with housing in mind. We work to prepare, place, and support individuals and families as they journey out of homelessness into a place of their own.
Learn more about our solutions at Challenges and Solutions.
Our History
The DRC story began on a spring day in 1997, when bestselling author and former newspaper reporter Jeff Guinn stepped from a downtown bus station to spend a week living on the streets of Fort Worth. His harrowing, first-hand account of street life was published on June 8, 1997 and revealed heartbreaking gaps in help for the homeless. Guinn’s story opened eyes to the human cost of homelessness, and civic leaders responded, opening the DRC as Day Resource Center for the Homeless in 1999.
In 2015, the agency rebranded as the DRC to underscore its leadership in housing strategies for ending homelessness and its new mission: to provide respectful, responsible, and effective community-based solutions to help individuals and families emerge from homelessness as productive, healthy people. It exited shelter services in December 2016 to focus on housing solutions.
After managing the community’s overflow shelter during the COVID pandemic, the DRC discovered that many people living unsheltered were outside of the traditional service model in Tarrant County. In response, the DRC founded the Street Outreach program specifically to bring housing services to those living unsheltered.
Our Mission
The mission of the DRC is to provide respectful, responsible, and effective community-based solutions to help individuals and families emerge from homelessness as productive, healthy people.
Our Vision
The DRC envisions an end to homelessness achieved through investments that make permanent shelter a reality for all who need it.
Our Philosophy
The DRC believes that Housing First makes housing last.
What is Housing First?
Housing First places housing before other life challenges, allowing people the opportunity to make life changes, such as securing employment or improving their health, without the daily stressors of homelessness.
Housing First saves money.
Housing First improves lives.
Housing First creates a vibrant community.
We have a choice: we can spend millions to merely manage homelessness, or invest to end it.
Housing First is the choice of greatest value to individuals and our community.
Today
DRC Solutions, also known as the DRC, is a pioneer and provider of critical outreach, housing, case management, and safety-net services—programs essential to ending homelessness in Tarrant County.
The DRC provides critical services of essential, evidence-based solutions that house people experiencing homelessness, set the stage for housing, or satisfy unmet needs in the community. The DRC regularly acts as “the safety net’s safety net,” taking on projects and responsibilities at the request of local authorities when there is no other organization willing or able to meet urgent needs.
All of the DRC’s programs approach the issue of homelessness with housing in mind. We work to prepare, place, and support individuals and families as they journey out of homelessness into a place of their own.
Learn more about our solutions at Challenges and Solutions.