When people with lived experience drive the work to end & prevent homelessness, we can be sure our solutions are effective & our systems are accountable to their communities. More on the growing movement to center lived experience: 🔗destinationhomesv.org/centering-lived-experience/

Our next Grantee Partner Spotlight underscores the vital link between stable #housing & quality #education. 🏘️🎓 The Karat School Project helps local underserved communities overcome intergenerational poverty – including unhoused families living in RVs. Support KSP: theksp.org/donate-to-usa-programs

Up next in our GranteePartnerSpotlight series, we’re excited to highlight Carry the Vision and their new initiative: Rooted! 1/2 🧵

➡️A lack of affordable housing options. ➡️Wages that fail to keep pace with rents. ➡️A sudden change in family circumstances. Desiré knows firsthand the forces that are pushing people into homelessness. We must scale our local Homelessness Prevention System to meet the size of need in our community.

Home is more than housing – it’s connection, community, and care. 🏘️💚 Yesterday, we joined our partners in celebrating the grand opening of Parkmoor Community Apartments & The Hub – a project supporting foster youth in Santa Clara County that truly embodies the meaning of home. bit.ly/47xWNka

"By approving this local funding measure, voters can ensure Santa Clara Valley Healthcare continues to do what it’s done so well for decades — care for everyone. Measure A protects critical programs that connect health care and housing." Vote #YesOnA! #SaveOurLocalHospitals #MeasureA

We partner with organizations led by experts who best know the needs of their community to build a stronger & more equitable system for all to thrive. Today, we’re highlighting the work of one of our partners: the South Bay Community Land Trust! 👉 Support their work: tinyurl.com/SouthBayCLT-PPF

Through Donnell's story, we see the bigger picture: homelessness is rooted in systemic issues, not personal shortcomings. We must close the gap between housing costs and wages to solve homelessness. Thank you, Donnell, for sharing your journey! 🔗 destinationhomesv.org/centering-lived-experience/

Those quoted in this @mercurynews.com article are making impossible trade-offs, like choosing between a medical procedure & rent. For others who are barely making ends meet, an unexpected expense like a hospital bill could be what pushes them onto our streets. www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/05/h...

SB 634 makes it clear: cities can't block life-saving outreach & services for people experiencing homelessness. Without services + housing, there is no real path forward. @governor.ca.gov 🔗 tinyurl.com/4nyschsr #SB634 #EndHomelessness

🚨Our local hospital system is under threat.🚨 Santa Clara Valley Healthcare provides essential healthcare to all in our community, but federal funding cuts are threatening the life-saving services they provide. Learn more & join us in supporting #MeasureA: destinationhomesv.org/news/2025/09...

People with lived experience are essential co-creators of the solutions to homelessness. Their firsthand knowledge drives true systemic change. "If you know how to listen, it can impact and transform systems." @rhie512.bsky.social 🔗Learn more: destinationhomesv.org/centering-lived-experience/

Funding cuts are threatening to undo the progress communities across California are making toward ending and preventing homelessness. We need sustained investments in proven solutions to keep momentum. Read more by @calmatters.org: calmatters.org/housing/home...

Really enjoyed talking with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social and Jennifer Loving from @destinationhomesv.bsky.social about what we know regarding homeless prevention and drivers of homelessness. A great opportunity to highlight some of the research from @LEOatND & @ndecon.bsky.social !

TUE at 9AM Tune in to the Episode 1 of #InSearchofHome - we'll talk with @destinationhomesv.bsky.social CEO Jennifer Loving and economics professor @racollinson.bsky.social about the many reasons why homelessness happens and how to prevent it. ❓ Have you ever been on the brink of losing your home?

"Triage is a lifeline, but treatment is the cure. If we want fewer people outside tomorrow, we can’t just count cabins built or encampments cleared. We have to measure keys in hand, leases signed and doors closed behind someone finally home." 🔗 Read more @sanjosespotlight.com: bit.ly/Bramson908

We’re honored to be featured in @packardfdn.bsky.social‘s latest grantee story and grateful for their steadfast partnership, which has been instrumental in helping our community pioneer bold and collaborative solutions to homelessness. If you haven’t already, give it a read ⬇️⬇️⬇️

"...That means filling federal funding gaps with local dollars wherever possible. It means doubling down on eviction prevention and emergency rental assistance. It means building political will to protect those on the margins." Read more @sanjosespotlight.com:

By focusing on preventing homelessness with financial assistance, we're tackling the root causes of housing instability and demonstrating that keeping families in their homes is both compassionate and cost-effective. #PreventHomelessness 🔗 Learn more: destinationhomesv.org/homelessness-prevention/

🏥 Healthcare 🖼️ Art ❤️ Connection Lanette Quiroz has access to all three, now that she has a stable place to call home at Hillview Court. #HousingChangesLives #HousingEndsHomelessness Read more @mercurynews.com:

Spoiler: Ticketing and arresting people for sleeping outside without shelter PROLONGS their homelessness. Essential items & documents are often lost during sweeps & bans, and enforcement forces people into more isolated areas. #HousingEndsHomelessness #HousingNotHandcuffs Read more @calmatters.org:

We can’t afford this anymore. Not with thousands living on the edge of eviction. Not with families like Megan’s choosing between rent and everything else. What we need now is common ground. That means... 1/🧵

With thousands of families living paycheck to paycheck & just 1 emergency expense away from losing their housing, we must scale homelessness prevention programs—like the Santa Clara County Homelessness Prevention System—to ensure more families like Linda Nguyen's stay housed. @csmonitor.bsky.social

We should be scaling homelessness prevention initiatives – a proven, cost-effective and, most importantly, humane solution to homelessness – but local budget cuts are threatening to reduce the capacity in our local Homelessness Prevention System. Learn more: destinationhomesv.org/news/2025/05...

After living out of his car for a few years, Celso was able to end his experience with homelessness after finding a home at Kifer Senior Apartments. Affordable housing does more than provide permanent housing for Celso and other residents–it offers safety, community, and access to vital healthcare.

Happening this Wednesday! Join us to learn more about homelessness in Gilroy: bit.ly/Gilroy514

Presenting: Kifer Senior Apartments! 🏠 We're teaming up with @abodeorg.bsky.social to present a quick tour of this beautiful permanent supportive housing development in Santa Clara – the first in a series of affordable housing tours in celebration of #AffordableHousingMonth. Check it out!

“It absolutely creates an opportunity to take philanthropic dollars and stretch them farther. You can reinvest dollars that have come into your organization five or 10 times over, and create thousands of units as opposed to hundreds of units,” says @destinationhomesv.bsky.social COO Ray Bramson.

Join Destination: Home and the City of Gilroy on Wednesday, May 14th, at 6 PM for a conversation with local leaders and experts on the realities of homelessness and how we can create lasting solutions. 📅 5/14, 6-8 PM 📍Gilroy Library – 2nd Floor, 350 W. Sixth Street 🔗RSVP now: bit.ly/Gilroy514

Reality check: Our community doesn't face a refusal of shelter problem. Roughly 1,400 people are on the countywide waitlist for shelter, with more than 60% from San Jose. We need to focus our energy on solving real problems impacting our community, like lack of housing people can afford.

“They wasted a lot of time and money pursuing this case...That’s probably hundreds of hours of work and thousands of dollars wasted. And that money would be better spent by simply offering Mr. Two Hands housing without arresting him,” says Ron Hochbaum in @calmatters.org. 🔗bit.ly/4cIrMLt

“When you think about all the people who were involved, from police to the city attorney’s office to judges and court clerks... That’s probably hundreds of hours of work and thousands of dollars wasted. That money would be better spent by simply offering Mr. Two Hands housing without arresting him.”

"There’s a reason why only certain regions of this country have the kind of visible street homelessness that they do, & that’s the variable—the growing chasm between people’s incomes & what landlords are charging for a place to live…not addiction or mental illness." www.thenation.com/article/cult...

We’re inviting you to a free screening of Beyond the Bridge: A Solution to Homelessness, presented in partnership with @uwbayarea.bsky.social in celebration of #AffordableHousingMonth! See what we can accomplish when we unite behind solutions proven to end homelessness. 🎟️ RSVP: bit.ly/Bridge512

“We are living in a world of musical chairs where there are not enough chairs for everyone. Someone is going to be left standing.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/n... By @elizashapiro.bsky.social via @nytimes.com #housing+ #urbanism+ #urbanism

“Think of a problem you have faced — and how much harder it would have been if you had had no place to sleep, shower, store your possessions or use the bathroom.” #HousingEndsHomelessness This @latimes.com op-ed is a must-read: 🔗 lat.ms/4igvVHD

Robust data show 85%+ of people with serious mental illness (with or without substance use) thrive in supportive housing with the right services. As policy debates shift, it’s critical to stay focused on what works: housing + voluntary services. Learn more: buff.ly/Gyl3RRL #HousingFirst

We’re thankful for our partnership with the Packard Foundation and excited to spotlight their commitment to helping our community achieve our shared goal of ending and preventing homelessness. 🔗 Read our new #PartnerProfile here: bit.ly/SpotlightPackard

"Over the past four years, 97 percent have either remained at the Lenniger or moved to other housing." In-depth reporting on life in PSH in @nytimes.com with key messages 🧵 Two Years in a Place Where Homelessness Ends www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

ICYMI: @nlihc.bsky.social's new GAP report shows CA has just 24 affordable homes per 100 ELI renters—a shortfall of nearly 1M. 📊 In our study, nearly 9 in 10 people said housing costs blocked them from getting back into a home. You can’t solve homelessness without solving housing affordability.

“Sweeps often have unintended consequences and inflict new trauma on vulnerable people, many with mental illness or addiction, while doing nothing to get them housed.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/u... via @nytimes.com #housing+ #urbanism+ #urbanism

It's #mythbusting time💥. People experiencing #homelessness are stereotyped as ‘transient drifters’ seeking services in urban areas. FACT👉 People experiencing homelessness in California are Californians. 9 out of 10 lost their last housing in CA and 75% live in the same county as their last housing.

“People aren’t being evicted because they refuse to pay rent. They’re being evicted because they can’t afford to. The gap between wages and rents just keeps getting bigger.” law.stanford.edu/stanford-law... #housing+ #urbanism+ #urbanism

“If I had been arrested or cited, I may not be here today,” says Cassandra Magana. “That is the reality for so many of our neighbors. We cannot let our city leaders dictate a false narrative that being poor is a crime.” #HousingNotHandcuffs

“Evidence shows that we can solve homelessness if we address its primary driver: the gap between incomes and rent. “ Via: @centeronbudget.bsky.social www.cbpp.org/researc... #housing+ #urbanism #urbanism+

“Our continuum of care has not had a problem filling units,” Jennifer Loving said. “We have a problem with the lack of housing options for people...And when we make it about other things, it’s not going to solve the actual crisis.”

With resources stretched thin, how can leaders make the most impact? Join us to explore insights from our upcoming report, offering research-backed guidance to help focus resources across homelessness and behavioral health systems. 📅 Mar 20, 11:30 AM PDT 🔗 buff.ly/VpEO9pz

NLIHC released today its annual report, "The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes." The report finds that the lowest-income renters in the U.S. face a shortage of 7.1 million affordable and available rental homes. Download "The Gap:" https://nlihc.org/gap Key insights 🧵

Yesterday’s webinar by @nextcity.org illuminated how our community’s Homelessness Prevention System is effectively preventing homelessness – and how other communities can too! 🔗Join us in replicating this proven prevention model: results4america.co/toolkit

The US has only 35 units of housing affordable & available per 100 extremely low-income households. CA has 24. This is why we have the homelessness crisis we do. The @nlihc.bsky.social #TheGap2025 report out today. nlihc.org/gap 1/x