Place · on the record since 2026 · discussed in 19 transcribed meetings

The Lamb Center

The Lamb Center is a faith-based social services organization in the City of Fairfax that provides day services to people experiencing homelessness.

Project

City of Fairfax 2035 Comprehensive Plan

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The City of Fairfax 2035 Comprehensive Plan is the city's primary long-range land use and policy document, guiding development, housing, transportation, and related decisions. A five-year review process culminated on October 8, 2024, when City Council unanimously adopted Resolution R-24-30 approving the updated plan dated September 27, 2024.

Apr 6, 2026Housing and Healthy Communities Advisory Board · item 4
Strategy Team Updates
Identified as a core data source for service utilization tracking as part of the Homelessness Strategy Team's data metric framework.
passedMotion to approve the information sharing/gathering approach of attending various Village in the City events for the Home Sharing Strategy Team.
✓ Light✓ LaCroix✓ Delboy✓ Bonaiuto✓ Vincent✓ Ihara✓ Derosier✓ Atwood✓ Gillespie✓ Napolitano✓ Cattaneo✓ Opoku-Yeboah· Anderson· Jensen· Wilber· Cabelli· Hatch
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Other mentions

Mar 23, 2026Housing and Healthy Communities Advisory Board · item 2
Discussion of Next Steps
Number of individuals served at The Lamb Center was identified as a key data point for routine homelessness trend monitoring by the Strategy Team.
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Apr 27, 2026Housing and Healthy Communities Advisory Board · item 3
Discuss Next Steps
The team agreed to request six months of aggregated trend data from The Lamb Center to monitor homelessness need within the City of Fairfax; Lesley Hatch will coordinate this request.
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Jun 1, 2026Housing and Healthy Communities Advisory Board · item 2
Review Data
Aggregated unduplicated counts of people served by The Lamb Center were reviewed; members noted the numbers did not fluctuate significantly month to month and raised a question about what percentage of guests served are housed.
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In full

It is a partner in the Beacon Landing affordable/supportive housing project (located at Fairfax Boulevard/Campbell Drive within Fairfax Circle), developed jointly with Wesley Housing; that project received a Special Use Permit in December 2022 and a city tax grant (structured as a real estate tax refund via the EDO/EDA) to help finance operations. The Lamb Center has assumed full responsibility for financing supportive services at Beacon Landing, estimated at just over $600,000 annually, funded through a capital campaign and applications to Fairfax County, with CoC funding not currently an option due to federal uncertainty around permanent supportive housing.

Separately from Beacon Landing, The Lamb Center has been identified by the HHCAB Homelessness Strategy Team as a core data source for routine homelessness trend monitoring: beginning in April 2026, Lesley Hatch was tasked with requesting six months of aggregated unduplicated counts from The Lamb Center, and that data was reviewed at the June 1, 2026 committee meeting, showing stable monthly numbers without significant fluctuation. An outstanding policy question has also emerged about enabling The Lamb Center to provide hypothermia shelter coverage on Sundays to fill a gap in the city's hypothermia protection network, raised at the October 6, 2026 meeting; it is unclear whether this requires formal council action or can be handled administratively.

Status

Still open

Whether enabling The Lamb Center to provide Sunday hypothermia coverage requires formal council action or can be handled administratively (raised October 6, 2026).
If council action is required for the Sunday hypothermia gap, whether The Lamb Center will submit a modified operations plan as part of a new or amended application.
What percentage of guests served by The Lamb Center are housed — a question raised during the June 1, 2026 data review that was not answered in the record.
Whether ongoing data-sharing from The Lamb Center (and comparable data from FACETS and encampment counts) will be formally integrated into a standing HMIS-linked data monitoring framework, as suggested at the June 1 meeting.

What members have said

Lesley Hatch
At the April 27, 2026 Homelessness Committee meeting, Hatch was assigned to coordinate the request to The Lamb Center for six months of aggregated trend data to monitor homelessness need in the City of Fairfax.
Jim Gillespie
Gillespie attended the CoC Board meeting on April 22, 2026 and reported updates to the Homelessness Committee at its April 27 meeting, providing relevant CoC context alongside the discussion of The Lamb Center data collection plan.
Opoku-Yeboah
In a transcript excerpt from April 7, 2026, Opoku-Yeboah noted that The Lamb Center is seeing more older individuals among the people it serves, flagging the growing older adult subpopulation within the homeless continuum as a trend requiring greater attention and potentially informing home-sharing and other housing options.

Positions as recorded in meeting minutes; votes without recorded comment aren’t summarized.

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Homeless Services3 meetings Affordable Housing Strategic Plan2 meetings City Hall2 meetings