Joel John Roberts

For 21 years, Joel John Roberts has led PATH, and its housing development agency PATH Ventures, as the Chief Executive Officer. The mission of PATH is to end homelessness for individuals, families, and communities. This community-based organization currently has 26 locations throughout the State of California. The major regions where PATH is located are: Los Angeles/Southern California, San Diego/South, Santa Barbara/Central Coast, and San Jose/Bay Area.

In the past four years, PATH has moved more than 7,500 people who were formerly homeless into permanent apartments. PATH Ventures has 19 permanent supportive housing communities completed or in development that includes 1,045 housing units. These agencies have nearly 400 staff, a total annual operating budget of $52 million, and have raised over $400 million in capital funds for permanent supportive housing.

Roberts is currently a member of San Diego’s Regional Continuum of Care Board of Directors, San Diego’s New Market Tax Credit Advisory Board, and recently was the co-Chairperson for the Governor’s California Interagency Council on Veterans/Interventions to Solve Homelessness Sub-Committee.

Roberts is also the author of numerous opinion pieces on homelessness, as well as the book, “How To Increase Homelessness.” He is the publisher of the national online journal for housing and homelessness, PovertyInsights.org, and is a writer on homelessness for Huffington Post.

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