Together, California Can Solve Homelessness
Join the fight to Bring California Home
Our Mission
Our coalition recognizes that it all starts with home: stability, community, health, healing. Bring California Home is a diverse coalition of more than 100 homeless advocates, affordable housing providers, local government staff, community organizations, and people with lived experience of homelessness, all working in collaboration to solve homelessness in California.
352,305
Californians experienced homelessness across the state during the course of 2024, in addition to the many Indigenous people who experienced homelessness in our state, but did not get included in this count.
1.2 Million
of California households with extremely low incomes renters spend half or more of their income on housing, making them vulnerable to homelessness in the state with the most expensive rental market.
Over 249,000
Californians receive services or housing through our local homeless response systems each year.
Less than 0.5%
of California’s annual budget is committed to ongoing funding for housing and homelessness.
We know what works to end homelessness: affordable housing coupled with quality services to bring people home and keep them housed. We need our state leaders to support our housing, health, social services, justice, aging and emergency services sectors by investing in proven solutions. That’s why our Bring California Home Coalition advocates for statewide solutions, including a bold but achievable goal: to secure ongoing revenue at scale to fund policy strategies proven to end homelessness.
California has the 4th largest economy in the world, but our leaders have yet to pass long-term, ongoing funding or even to plan for funding needed to end homelessness. That must change. To effectively rehouse people for good, one-time funding does not work. Our homeless response needs reliable money they can count on now and in the years to come, which is why we need our leaders to invest in lasting solutions that work to rehouse people and end homelessness for good.
Policy Priorities
It’s time for California to invest in ongoing funding for effective programs and proven interventions, at a level that matches the scale of the need.