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Building the region’s model for ending homelessness, together.

Beyond Homeless unites government, nonprofits, real estate, philanthropy, and tech around one goal: developing and operating homeless housing and service facilities at scale. We serve as backbone and convener, turning a fragmented system into coordinated action across campuses, innovation, and policy.

Client: Beyond Homeless
Where: Bay Area Region
When: 2021 to Present
Online: BeyondHomeless.org ↗

At a glance

50+

organizations engaged

Collaboratives

campuses in development

10+

letters of support from senators, mayors, and system leaders

The challenge

The Bay Area spends billions on homelessness, yet housing and services remain fragmented across counties, agencies, and providers. Site control is the single biggest blocker to new facilities, funding is contracting, and no shared picture of the system exists.

Our approach

Learn from proven models, convene unlikely partners, and pilot new ones.

We brought Bay Area leaders to see what works, organized the region into focused Collaboratives, and applied real estate expertise and technology to the hardest bottlenecks.

On film

The work, on film.

Two short films from Beyond Homeless: the Bay Area delegation’s field learning in Texas, and the convening that first brought the region’s leaders to one table.

Field learning

· Fall 2025

The Texas delegation: what’s working at scale.

A cross-sector Bay Area delegation traveled to Texas to study homelessness solutions that are working at scale, and to ask what the Bay Area could learn, adapt, and accelerate. Leaders from housing, policy, healthcare, philanthropy, and civic life spent the trip in site visits and roundtables with some of the country’s most innovative organizations.

3campuses visited

2Texas cities

5sectors at the table

The itinerary

Haven for Hope, San Antonio: housing, healthcare, and services on one campus
Community First! Village, Austin: permanent homes with wraparound support
Towne Twin Village: a master-planned community on the same model

Convening

· October 2023

The first solutions convening, the region at one table.

On October 3, 2023, 50 leaders from more than 30 of the Bay Area’s top civic organizations gathered in San Francisco for the first-ever solutions convening on homelessness, brainstorming the initiatives they could coalesce around to make a significant, positive impact.

50leaders in the room

30+civic organizations

Firstconvening of its kind

01 / 02

Results

What the work delivered.

50+

Bay Area leaders taken on delegations to Haven for Hope (San Antonio) and Community First! Village (Austin), the campus models shaping our work.

organizations aligned across San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda, Marin, and other counties through a regional homelessness delegation.

58.6

acres at the former Holy Names University campus being reimagined as Golden Gateway, a TAY workforce hub with partners including Kaiser Permanente, Bayer, BACS, Cardea Health, and Alameda County Behavioral Health. Target: 1,000 students across 15 career pathways.

126

tiny homes planned at Seeds of Hope’s Corie Court campus in San Jose, backed by Mayor Matt Mahan and Senator Dave Cortese.

15+

organizations in the Innovation Collaborative, launched March 2026, piloting three initiatives through a $500K state Innovation Partnership Fund application.

Thousands

of viewers across California for the documentary Beyond Homeless: Finding Hope.

Innovation in motion.

Homeless Response System Platform

A jurisdiction-wide map and dashboard showing every facility, the pipeline, its needs, and human and financial outcomes.

Donor-Advised Fund vouchers

A pilot routing DAF capital through a community foundation to fund housing vouchers when public funding is uncertain.

AI for pre-development

Tools that speed site feasibility, land use analysis, and matching sites to community needs.

BeyondHomeless.org

A regional network hub connecting members, projects, and partners.

Outcomes for the region.

Policy

A coalition with DignityMoves, Bay Area Council, and state Senate offices advancing interim housing and functional zero legislation.

Real estate

Pro bono site feasibility, renderings, and a Gensler introduction that saved partners millions in pre-development costs.

Coordination

Behavioral health departments across the region now engaged alongside providers, funders, and developers.

Testimonials

A bridge from policy to practice.

“Policy only matters if it reaches the people who can put it into practice. Collective Impact has become a vital bridge between the Bay Area Council and the tech community, and it’s leading collaborations on homelessness that bring new partners to the table. Its vision for reimagining how our buildings and campuses serve the region is exactly the kind of thinking we need on our board.”

Jim WundermanPresident & CEO, Bay Area Council

A 60-acre campus, reimagined.

“Collective Impact has rallied hundreds of public and private stakeholders to reimagine our 60-acre campus for a new purpose. It’s turning a legacy property into lasting value for the community and everyone invested in its future.”

Jim BrooksPresident, BH Properties

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