Destination: Home gathers funding from federal, county and city governments as well as private foundations and works with a network of 19 nonprofit partners to run the Homelessness Prevention System with the county.
But if you can only afford a couple of tools, which do you use? Steve Berg, chief policy officer at the National Alliance to End Homelessness, said prevention efforts that are well-targeted at the most vulnerable people really do succeed. “However, it’s still the case that if you have a limited amount of money to reduce homelessness, the money has the biggest impact when targeted at those who are already homeless,” he said.
“The formula of public and private money together allows for the greatest flexibility,” Loving said. “And our community partners know where the needs are.” “Programs like this are going to continue to be necessary until this country decides to do what we should have been doing for the last 50 years — building deeply affordable housing at scale,” Loving said,