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Expanding Neighborhoods that End Chronic Homelessness

The Future of New Beginnings

Chronic homelessness is growing in Northwest Arkansas. The most recent count found more than 500 neighbors without homes, nearly 200 of them chronically homeless in Fayetteville alone. Traditional responses like shelters and food pantries meet immediate needs but cannot provide long-term stability. Without safe housing, consistent support, and a sense of belonging, neighbors remain in tents, cars, and abandoned buildings—at enormous human and public cost.

Our Pathway to Ending Chronic Homelessness

At New Beginnings, we believe ending homelessness requires more than housing alone. It takes:

  • Consistent support services that address health, income, and life skills.

  • Affordable homes that people can sustain.

  • Community belonging that fosters resilience and recovery.

This pathway is rarely a straight line. Recovery often includes setbacks, restarts, and long stretches of rebuilding. That is why our model combines housing with case management, medical care, and community life—ensuring no one has to walk the journey alone.

The Plan

To turn this vision into reality, New Beginnings is focused on a clear plan that expands housing, strengthens support services, and builds neighborhoods where stability lasts.

Sustaining Support Services

Additional team members, expanded case management, and access to healthcare, therapy, and life-skills training so stability lasts.

Expanding A Place to Stay

Five new cabins will grow our bridge housing neighborhood by 25 percent, allowing more neighbors to move out of tents and into stability.

Neighborhoods with Support

Spruce Street Gardens will transform a 1.5-acre site in Fayetteville into a supportive neighborhood with 16 studio apartments, 8 cottages, and a community clubhouse. Here, formerly unhoused residents and mission-aligned neighbors will live side by side in a community designed for belonging.

Spruce Street Gardens

Spruce Street Gardens, will be a planned neighborhood in the heart of Fayetteville. On a 1.5-acre site already owned by New Beginnings, we are creating a community where neighbors can move from surviving to thriving.

Spruce Street Gardens will include:

  • 16 studio apartments created by renovating existing duplexes, giving residents private space with dignity and affordability.

 

  • 8 new cottages for mission-aligned families and individuals who choose to live alongside formerly unhoused neighbors, building community together.

 

  • A community clubhouse designed for meals, gatherings, and shared life that fosters belonging.

 

  • Amenities and green space that provide beauty, recreation, and healing in daily life.

With its central location near the VA Hospital, public transit, and grocery stores, Spruce Street Gardens will connect residents to essential resources while anchoring them in a safe, supportive neighborhood. Over the next 30 years, more than 50 people will experience lasting stability here, showing what is possible when homes, support, and community come together.

The Impact

If nothing changes, chronic homelessness will continue to grow. But with these investments, neighbors will move into safe homes, access healthcare, reconnect with family, and rediscover purpose. Over 30 years, Spruce Street Gardens alone will provide stability for more than 50 people and model a future where every community can end chronic homelessness.

The Invitation

We are shovel-ready to begin. With your support, we can expand A Place to Stay, launch Spruce Street Gardens, and sustain the services that make housing last. Every gift moves this vision forward – because homes, services, and community must be built together.

If you are interested in making a leadership gift to help build Spruce Street Gardens and expand the full pathway out of homelessness, please contact our team—we would love to share how your support can shape the future of New Beginnings.