Three-part framework
The 2020–2025 Community Plan to End Homelessness will serve as our roadmap for ending homelessness in Santa Clara County and is organized around three core strategies:
Stategy 1
Address the root causes of homelessness through system and policy change.
Strategy 2
Expand homelessness prevention and housing programs to meet the need.
Strategy 3
Improve quality of life for unsheltered individuals and create healthy neighborhoods for all
Keep engaged
We are making progress towards our goals! Read more about our collective efforts in the 2023 year-end progress report.
Learn more about the plan from our partners at Destination:Home
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Our Targets
By 2025, we will:
Achive a 30% reduction in annual inflow of people becoming homeless*
House 20,000 people through the supportive housing system
Expand the Homelessness Prevention System and other early interventions to serve 2,500 people per year
Double temporary housing and shelter capacity to reduce the number of people sleeping outside
Address the racial inequities present among unhoused people and families and track progress toward reducing disparities.
*The reduction in annual inflow target was based on annual inflow prior to the COVID-19 panemic. This target will be reevaluated once the longer term impacts of COVID-19 are known.
Community engagement
A thorough community engagement process occurred in late 2019 through early 2020 and included:
- Subject-matter expert convenings
- Stakeholder focus group meetings
- Key stakeholder interviews
- Consumer focus groups and interviews
- Community meetings
- Survey that yielded more than 5,000 responses
Community endorsement
The following jurisdictions have adopted resolutions endorsing the 2020-2025 Community Plan to End Homelessness:
- County of Santa Clara
- Campbell
- Cupertino
- Milpitas
- Morgan Hill
- Mountain View
- San José
- Santa Clara