Destination: Home

One-line definition: Santa Clara County public-private partnership using a collective-impact model to end homelessness, anchored by a $50M Cisco grant seeding the Supportive Housing and Innovation Fund.

How sources describe it

• Grew out of a “blue ribbon commission” of the San Jose mayor and Santa Clara County board of supervisors; Jennifer Loving became its leader and adopted the Stanford collective-impact model. (source: raw/calls/May 31st, 2018.md)
• ~5-person team (Jen, Chad Bojorquez as operations lead, Robert on communications, Ray as chief impact officer / grantmaking). (source: raw/calls/May 31st, 2018.md)
• Acts as a “backbone” and strategy builder for service organizations like Abode; funds developers (often for-profit) with cheap or 0% forgivable loans. (source: raw/calls/May 31st, 2018.md)
• Goals: ~5,000–6,000 supportive-housing units, a $1B private-sector target; the $950M county bond can’t fund services, so private capital fills the gap. 90% of the Cisco investment goes to acquiring housing stock. (source: raw/calls/May 31st, 2018.md)
• Four active initiatives: All The Way Home (veteran homelessness), Destination: Work (employment), a homelessness-prevention system, and Housing Ready Communities (grassroots organizing). (source: raw/calls/May 31st, 2018.md)

Where it shows up

• Chad Bojorquez (Destination: Home) — 2018-05-31 — call with Chad Bojorquez and Ray on the model.

Conflicts

• None.

Related concepts

• Homelessness — the problem the partnership exists to end, targeting ~5,000–6,000 supportive-housing units.
• Social Innovation — the partnership seeds a Supportive Housing and Innovation Fund and runs grassroots initiatives like Housing Ready Communities.
• Cisco — anchor funder whose $50M grant seeded the fund, with ~90% directed to acquiring housing stock.
• Chad Bojorquez — operations lead on the ~5-person team running the collective-impact model.