Campaign to End Family Homelessness
The Campaign to End Family Homelessness is a community initiative to end family homelessness in Ada County by 2026.
Campaign to End Family Homelessness.
The Campaign to End Family Homelessness is a community initiative to end family homelessness in Ada County by 2026.
The campaign was launched by a group of driven local funders, leaders, and partners who came together to say no one, especially our families with children, should experience homelessness. No family in crisis should have to wait for the intervention we know would end their homelessness. And they were going to do something about it.
The goal of the Campaign is to do as much as we can to end family homelessness by preventing housing loss as often as possible and responding quickly to families in a housing crisis. To achieve this goal, the pooled Campaign funding is made available to partners to expand three proven interventions to help end homelessness for families with children:
Prevention
Prevention stabilizes families and keeps them housed, thereby ensuring children don’t endure the trauma that comes from living without a home. In turn, we will be better positioned to support the families in our community currently experiencing homelessness.
Rapid Resolution Assistance
Quick and short-term assistance for families experiencing brief economic hardships helps provide stability. This type of assistance offers families light support to gain stable housing, curbing the need for more costly interventions.
Supportive Housing
Supportive housing provides the rental assistance and case management needed to house and stabilize families. Rental assistance helps make housing affordable and individualized support services help keep families in housing long-term.
Campaign Funding
Collectively, the Campaign to End Family Homelessness has inspired more than $11 million of new investment into ending family homelessness since launch.
With the support of the Leadership Cabinet, Our Path Home raised just over $3.6 million for the Campaign to End Family Homelessness from 29 donors and community leaders. In addition to this, the City of Boise surpassed their original $2 million pledge by investing over $8.1 million to purchase an apartment complex that will be converted into 48 new homes that will be paired with permanent rental assistance and support services for families with children experiencing homelessness.
In the first three years, the Campaign spend almost $1.6 million to support the effort and for Year 4 Our Path Home has disbursed over $1 million directly to partner agencies to expand services. For the first four years of the Campaign to End Family Homelessness, funded partners have received a total of:
Jesse Tree
$744,777 to provide direct assistance to families facing eviction.
Boise City/Ada County Housing Authorities
$99,896 to add staff support for households receiving rental assistance.
CATCH
$1,286,112 to increase re-housing program capacity that provides direct financial assistance, housing navigation, and case management support.
To see more data from the initiative, head to the Campaign to End Family Homelessness Dashboard.