In Their Own Words - Californians' Journeys From Encampments to Housing
This report explores how four California communities are implementing encampment resolution efforts, and how those strategies are experienced by residents, drawing on interviews, HMIS data, and policy review. It identifies promising practices, persistent barriers, and key themes that shape pathways to permanent housing. Funded by the National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH), the study offers practical insights for designing more humane and effective responses to unsheltered homelessness.
Housing CA Conference Presentation: The First Step is to Understand
Homebase was honored to facilitate a panel of experts from different areas of California who have experienced homelessness and are catalyzing solutions and change in their communities, the State and nationwide at the 2025 Housing California conference. The panel shared their experiences, expertise and lead discussion about implementing solutions to homelessness through collective action and shifting power structures while highlighting data and humanizing the issue of homelessness.
Impacts of Criminalizing Homelessness
These fact sheets show the impact of local laws that criminalize people living outside.
Advancing Anti-Criminalization Efforts: Protecting the rights of people experiencing homelessness
This webinar co-hosted by Homebase and Destination: Home was designed to empower and educate Santa Clara County service providers, advocates, and community members about the legal rights of people experiencing homelessness, especially those affected by encampment sweeps and vehicle tows. The training also included information about reasonable accommodation requests for individuals with disabilities experiencing homelessness.
Shifting the Narrative: A data-driven, person-centered approach to combating the criminalization of homelessness
This workshop at the National Human Services Data Consortium outlined how to leverage lived experience expertise to assess gaps in legal services and inform the creation of legal clinics for people experiencing homelessness.
Potential Impact of Stipends on Recipients’ Public Benefits and Taxes in California
Stipends are a recognition of the uniquely valuable insights that people with lived expertise bring to work to respond to and solve homelessness. However, receiving a stipend can have implications for taxes and benefits. This toolkit offers guidance on what to consider when distributing or receiving stipends.
Advancing Health Equity: Peer Health Ambassadors for People Experiencing Homelessness
Peer Health Ambassador Programs have been developed to improve health education and connections for people experiencing homelessness by hiring, training, and mentoring health ambassadors who have lived expertise and experiences of homelessness. This toolkit is designed to help new and expanded Peer Health Ambassador Programs design, develop, and implement their programs in ways that are effective, equitable, and specific to the needs of people experiencing homelessness in the community. This toolkit provides foundational information, best practice guidance, and sample resources that can support local design and implementation.
Professional Development Toolkit for People with Lived Expertise
Designed specifically for people with lived experience, this toolkit offers insights on how you can use your lived experience as a marketable skill. The toolkit provides resources for personal and professional development - tapping into your skills, growing your career, and setting yourself up for success.
Homekey Client Engagement Toolkit
This HCD Toolkit is intended to be a resource for providers of Homekey and other programs seeking deeper engagement with their clients. It includes practical fact sheets that providers can use to guide their client feedback processes.