Homelessness is solvable.
This is not a radical belief — we work with more than 80 cities and counties making it a reality every day.
We can create a future
where homelessness is never inevitable or a way of life.
Many communities are already on their way
How communities are ending homelessness
with Built for Zero
The New York Times, “How Many Americans Are Homeless? No One Knows“
“’Homelessness is an inadequate description of a million different housing crises.’ The problems are individual, and until the government knows how many people need help, it’s impossible to know how far America’s communities still have to go.”
How we help communities end homelessness
Our work seeks to answer one urgent question: what will it take to create a lasting end to homelessness that leaves no one behind?
Built for Zero
More than 80 communities are demonstrating what is possible when homeless systems are designed to get to zero.
Moving Upstream
In order to end homelessness for good, we must understand how to prevent it.
Creating housing, faster
A social-impact investment model is solving for affordable housing challenges in a way that can be replicated by nearly any community.
ZERO IS A MINDSET, A METHODOLOGY,
AND A GROWING REALITY
Discover books featuring Community Solutions and Built for Zero
Recommended reading about complex social challenges (and how to solve them).
The Business of Giving: A Conversation with Community Solutions CEO on Winning MacArthur’s $100 Million Award To End Homelessness
A conversation between Rosanne Haggerty, President & CEO of Community Solutions, and Denver Frederick, the Host of The Business of Giving
Charlotte Veteran Featured in Rocket Mortgage Video
“When someone’s homeless, they’re not hopeless. They’re just not in a home right now.” And that’s a problem Thomas Jacobs can help solve.
NEWS
Equipping the homeless sector with racial equity tools
We worked with local homeless services leaders and people who experienced homelessness to develop a framework for understanding and improving the racial equity of a community’s homeless response system.
Our policy recommendations to accelerate an end to homelessness in the U.S.
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