Housing for Youth

HomeBase has worked in collaboration with the Corporation for Supportive Housing and ICF Consulting to facilitate two U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) foster youth housing events. The first event "All the Way Home: Creating Partnerships to House Emancipated Foster and Homeless Youth" was held October 28, 2003, in Oakland, CA. The second conference, "A Home of Their Own, Creating Partnerships to House Emancipated, Foster and Homeless Youth" was held in Los Angeles on December 1, 2004.

Both of these conferences focused on creating partnerships between service providers, developers, funders and landlords in an effort to create more housing for emancipating and homeless youth. Panelists at both conferences included speakers who already have a program to house emancipating youth, developers and funders who wish to help create more housing for the youth, and foster and emancipated youth themselves. The participation and attendance at these conferences was quite broad, but the overall goal was the same throughout. That aim is to find ways to ensure that all youth leaving the foster care system have a home in which to live.

To download conferences materials from either the Oakland conference or the LA Conference, please click on the appropriate link below.

"All the Way Home" October 28, 2003 Oakland, CA Conference:

Creating Partnerships to House Emancipated Foster and Homeless Youth

"A Home of Their Own" December 1, 2004 Los Angeles, CA Conference:

Creating Partnerships to House Emancipated Foster and Homeless Youth