California Voices Collections

California can't solve homelessness without vastly improving the public mental health system. Without treatment and interventions, those with a serious mental illness deteriorate and lose housing.

The conditions surrounding homelessness in Texas and California are different, but Houston's success offers lessons. The first step requires setting aside individual priorities and committing to collective impact.

It's incredibly difficult for someone experiencing homelessness to regain housing in California. With consistent funding, equal distribution and stronger rental protections, it would be easier to keep people housed.

Decades of bad policy means it will take bigger, more expensive solutions to deliver the results on homelessness that struggling community members need and the public demands.