Stretched to Capacity: The Challenges Facing California’s Homelessness Service Providers
Published On February 28, 2024
Nonprofit organizations play a key role in providing services to people experiencing homelessness in California and many have expanded their services amid a surge in homelessness over the last several years. Our new report, part of our collaborative series on Addressing Homelessness in California with UCSF and Abt Associates, underscores the growing demand for nonprofit homelessness organizations’ services and the limitations in infrastructure, funding, and staffing that have hindered their capacity to assist everyone in need. The report highlights nonprofit providers’ strategies for overcoming these limitations, and it identifies systemic reforms to improve the funding inconsistencies, complex application processes, low staff wages, and other challenges that undermine nonprofit efforts to address California’s homelessness crisis.
Find this report and more, including our recent report looking at opportunities to improve the implementation of CalAIM to support services for people experiencing homelessness, on the series webpage here.
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