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Dear Friends,
Addressing homelessness requires an all hands on deck approach. As you know, over the last two years Tipping Point has surveyed individuals experiencing homelessness in San Francisco and collaborated with local and national experts on homelessness. Informed by these efforts, we believe the solution to homelessness starts with homes and services like employment or behavioral health supports. We’re launching the All In campaign to activate San Franciscans to demand homes and services in their own neighborhoods so that all of our neighbors can permanently exit homelessness.
All In will provide public education, host neighborhood events, conduct online recruitment, and work in coalition with private, non-profit, and public sector partners. Our goal is to house 1,100 people across all 11 districts of San Francisco by the release of the next Point-In-Time count results in 2021.
It's time to challenge ourselves and our neighbors to step up and demand homes with services like never before. Join us.
All my best,
Daniel
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Snapshot: All In - The Solution to Homelessness Starts with You
In 2017, Tipping Point Community retained EMC Strategies to conduct public opinion research, polling, and focus groups with the goal of understanding what San Franciscans believe about homelessness. The research shows that a majority of residents would welcome housing for people experiencing homelessness in their neighborhoods, but don’t know where to turn or what to do.
Now, with All In, a robust coalition of front-line service providers, people with lived experience of homelessness, philanthropy, business, and SF residents are coming together to take action. We’re committed to helping 1,100 people exit homelessness into homes by 2021. The first steps include:
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The All In campaign is focused on homes and services in part because a stable home helps a person take advantage of supportive services. Approximately 90% of people experiencing homelessness say that a home is the most certain way to help them lead healthy, stable lives. As Dr. Margot Kushel, Director of the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations*, explains, mental health and substance abuse treatment is “difficult–bordering on impossible–if people are living on the street. Housing is an inescapable, unavoidable part of the solution.” We need to focus on both new construction and re-purposing homes from existing housing stock to address this crisis.
*title for identification purposes only
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Ray Shanahi, General Manager
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"I was always looking for options in terms of finding tenants, and this has been nothing but a good experience for me. We're glad to get a little more diversity—people of color, elders, families with young children—which is just awesome, because that's how it was when I first bought the building. We are also very proud to accept formerly homeless tenants and believe in equal opportunity to all SF has to offer."
In 2000 Ray started to operate the apartment buildings at 11th and Kissling in SOMA. These 24 units of one and two-bedroom apartments are stylish, with original details and the latest amenities—Ray takes pride in maintaining beautiful homes. The property management business in San Francisco demands that landlords invest in making their units as high-end as possible, but as a child of working-class immigrants, it felt wrong for Ray to have his building be part of the trend of homes becoming less affordable in San Francisco.
In partnership with Brilliant Corners, who help people exiting homelessness connect with landlords and rent homes through rental subsidy programs like Section 8, Ray is making his building part of the solution to homelessness. Brilliant Corners guarantees the rent on a unit while managing paperwork for Ray and the tenant. They also mediate when the rare challenges arise with tenants they support, to make sure that both tenants and property managers feel supported and heard. This makes it little different from renting to a market-rate tenant, and, for Ray, “being able to make housing affordable to more people feels really good.”
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What We're Reading
Editorial: New S.F. program tries to engage community in homeless solutions - All In’s initial objective is to secure stable housing — not just shelters or navigation centers — for 1,100 homeless people. Here is where it gets challenging: The campaign is not about constructing a large complex, but rather finding available space, one by one, in all 11 supervisorial districts in the city.
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Chronic Homelessness Initiative Overview
There are approximately 2,100 people experiencing chronic homelessness on any given night in San Francisco. Tipping Point’s $100 million pledge marks the single largest private investment to address homelessness in City history.
Tipping Point takes a three-pronged approach to our impact goal. See here for more details. If you are receiving this email as a forward, subscribe here to receive this update monthly.
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