What to Expect from HomelessStrategy.com
The primary purpose of the Homeless and Housing Strategies for California website is to
- closely examine the issues that are contributing to an unprecedented increase in the number of persons who are homeless and at risk of becoming homeless in California;
- help counties, cities, and communities shape local policies for solving homelessness and increasing affordable housing; and
- assist you in helping other local stakeholders and decision-makers shape local policies by promoting the practices published here.
This site will continuously provide current information for visitors to use to help local stakeholders and decision-makers shape local policies to solve homelessness and increase affordable housing, including permanent supportive housing for homeless persons who are languishing on the streets.
As a visitor you will have access to briefs, reports, fact sheets, and other timely commentary and analyses that focus on the same or similar issues around homelessness and housing that you are facing in your community.
2025 Total Homeless Count Results Reveal a 2.8% Decrease When Compared to 2024 Total Homeless Count
2025 Total Homeless Count Results Recently Released by HUD Reveals a 2.8% Decrease for California When Compared to its 2024 Total Homeless Count Unsheltered Homelessness Decreased by 6.8% Sheltered Homelessness…
Numerous Nationwide 2025 Homeless Counts Reveal a Collective Comparative Decrease
Numerous Nationwide 2025 Homeless Counts Reveal a Collective Comparative Decrease 2025 Homeless Count Results Publicly Released by Numerous Continuums of Care Reveal a Collective Decrease When Compared to Their Collective…
2025 Homeless Count Results Recently Released by a Majority of CA Continuums of Care Reveal a Collective Statewide Decrease of 4.3%
Of California’s 44 Continuums of Care (CoCs), 29 of 30 CoCs that completed a Point-in-Time (PIT) unsheltered and sheltered count in 2025 publicly reported their total counts, unsheltered counts, and…
This site also includes updates, commentary, and analysis concerning the numerous California Assembly and Senate bills recently signed into law. These bills provide a wide range of new regulatory resources designed to help create local solutions for local homelessness and lack of affordable housing, including permanent supportive housing.
These bills often provide funding resources to help implement local solutions for local homelessness based on evidence-based and best practices. Funding resources are also available to increase affordable housing development.
Proposed 2026 California Legislation Concerning Homelessness
Next legislative steps will involve required actions by policy, fiscal, and appropriations committees that may further advance bills into, or stop bills from, becoming law Proposed California legislation concerning homelessness…
Governor Approved Several Legislative Bills Concerning Homelessness During the 2025 California Legislative Session: What’s in the Legislation?
The last day the Governor was able to approve legislation for the 2025 California Legislative Session was October 13. Approved legislative bills concerning homelessness include: AB-348 Full-service partnerships AB-543 Medi-Cal:…
Proposed Legislation Focuses on Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) Grant Program
Proposed legislative bills include the following: • SB 16 would establish a Round 7 program allocation • SB 606 would enact the Functional Zero Unsheltered Act beginning with round 6…
As a visitor you will also learn about how policies and plans are influencing and generating evidence-based, best, promising, and emerging practices through briefs, reports, fact sheets, and other timely commentary and analysis.
You will learn how various counties and cities are adopting and generating these practices in ways that solve issues unique to their jurisdictions. Issues involve chronic homelessness, criminalization of homelessness, episodic homelessness, and at-risk of homelessness. While the many issues currently contributing to homelessness may not be new for many visitors to the site, in-depth examinations into some of these issues may be.
How Many California Continuum of Care Projects Funded through the Federal Continuum of Care Program are Implementing a Housing First Approach?
Homelessness, HUD, Housing First, and California Continuums of Care How Many California Continuum of Care Projects Funded through the Federal Continuum of Care Program are Implementing a Housing First Approach? …
How Many California Continuums of Care (CoCs) Have a Move On Strategy with Affordable Housing Providers in Their Jurisdictions?
-68% of California CoCs Have a Move On Strategy- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) asked each Continuum of Care (CoC) applicant the following question, which was…
How Many California Continuums of Care Demonstrated the Ability to Reallocate Lower Performing Projects to Create New Higher Performing Projects Based on Performance Review of Existing Projects?
-Table 1 Lists Those That Did and Those That Did Not- As part of the 2018 Continuum of Care (CoC) Program competition, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development…
A wide-range of solutions will be offered here. Some of them may be new to you. Some of them may not be. However, we believe that you will discover new facets to familiar ideas and read about innovations connected to these ideas of which you may not yet be aware.
You are encouraged to read the insights published here, review the posted comments from others, and provide your own comments.