The Lamb Center
The Lamb Center is a nonprofit organization based in Fairfax that provides services to individuals experiencing homelessness, including day services and—through its partnership with Wesley Housing—permanent supportive housing.
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.
- Strategy Team Updates
Identified as a core data source for service utilization tracking as part of the Homelessness Strategy Team's data metric framework.
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
In full
Its most prominent capital project is Beacon Landing, a permanent supportive housing development on Fairfax Boulevard near Campbell Drive and Fairfax Circle, whose special use permit was approved in December 2022. The Lamb Center has taken full financial responsibility for services at Beacon Landing, estimated at over $600,000 per year, while Wesley Housing serves as the housing developer; the city's contribution represents roughly 2–3% of the total project budget but enables leveraging of outside funding. A tax grant mechanism—refunding real estate taxes paid by Wesley Housing back to the applicant through the EDO/EDA—has been described as part of the interim financing, with taxes assessed at approximately $10,208 annually as of January 2026.
Beyond Beacon Landing, The Lamb Center functions as a core data source for the HHCAB Homelessness Strategy Team: in April 2026 it was identified as a key metric for service utilization tracking, and in April 2027 Lesley Hatch was assigned to request six months of aggregated trend data from The Lamb Center to monitor homelessness need in the city. That data was reviewed at the June 1, 2026 meeting, showing stable (non-fluctuating) monthly unduplicated counts of people served. A separate unresolved question involves whether The Lamb Center could expand its operations plan—potentially through a modified application to the council—to provide hypothermia shelter coverage on Sundays, filling a gap in the city's hypothermia protection.