For every two very low-income households, there is only one available and affordable home. More than half of these households are paying over half of their income in rent, and are just one emergency away from disaster. People with unsustainable incomes are competing for extremely limited resources.

The city doesn’t yet have good systems in place to prevent people from becoming homeless in the first place. Each year, over 2,000 new individuals become homeless for the first time. In 2019, it was measured that one in five people coming home from prison became homeless within three months of their release.

As one client told our Executive Director, “being homeless is a full-time job.” Once someone has lost their stability, it can be exhausting to travel to 10 different places across the city for the 10 different things: meals, shower, laundry, mail, employment, housing, medical, etc. How can someone escape their situation if they spend all their time just trying to survive?