Our Strategies
We’re committed to delivering the systemic change needed to end homelessness in our community.
At Destination: Home, we advance impactful strategies that address the root causes of homelessness and help ensure that our most vulnerable residents have a stable home. Through our unique public-private partnership, we bring stakeholders together in support of a common set of mutually-reinforcing strategies:
Expanding the Supply of Deeply Affordable Housing
Helping People Secure & Maintain Stable Housing
Improving Access & Equity Within our System
These collective impact strategies are endorsed in the Community Plan to End Homelessness, a five-year roadmap for making homelessness rare, brief and non-recurring.
Learn more about the Destination: Home initiatives within our three main areas of focus:
Expanding the Supply of Deeply Affordable Housing
Our community’s severe lack of deeply affordable housing not only constrains our ability to connect homeless individuals to a stable home, it’s also pushing more of our neighbors into homelessness. That’s why we focus on expanding the supply of: 1) deeply affordable housing that’s reserved for our lowest-income residents, and 2) supportive housing developments, which combine affordable apartments with critical on-site services.
Learn more about our work in this area:
Preventing homelessness with financial assistance
The cost of living in our area and across the country has skyrocketed, while wages have failed to keep pace. As a result, thousands in our community are at risk of homelessness. Financial assistance is crucial to addressing the housing crisis, ensuring people have the support needed to achieve lasting stability. We’ve proven it works here in Santa Clara County. Now, we’re scaling our prevention strategies nationwide.
Learn more about our work in this area:
Improving Access & Equity within Our System
We’re working with our community to make it easier for people seeking housing and supportive services to access them. With a more coordinated and efficient system, we can provide safe and stable housing to as many residents as possible and prioritize people at the greatest risk of homelessness. This work is informed by the leadership of people with lived experience who know how to improve our homelessness response best.
Learn more about our work in this area:
See our Past Initiatives to read about some of the programs we’ve helped launch that are informing our work today including Housing 1000, All the Way Home campaign and our COVID-19 Response.