A Future Without Street Homelessness
Our Mission
Street Homelessness is Solvable
At DignityMoves, we believe no one should be forced to live on the streets. We’re reimagining scalable solutions to end street homelessness and building a future where every person has a safe, dignified place to call home.
Understanding the Crisis
Street homelessness is the most visible, most inhumane, and yet the most solvable part of our housing crisis.
More than half of the nation’s unsheltered population lives in California. For every one person who exits homelessness, three more fall into it. Despite billions spent, our system is overwhelmed and street homelessness continues to rise.
The reasons are complex, but the result is clear: people are left with nowhere to go. While only permanent housing ends homelessness, interim housing is a bridge that gives people a safe and dignified alternative to living on the street and a pathway out of homelessness. It’s an invitation to come indoors, to stabilize and seek the support of housing, health and workforce services.
We Need a New Approach
While everyone deserves a permanent home, using our streets as a waiting room for permanent housing results in tremendous human suffering and the degradation of our civic life. That’s not acceptable and it’s not inevitable.
The longer someone stays outside, the worse their outcomes become. Trauma deepens. Health declines. What started as short-term instability becomes chronic homelessness—a condition that is harder, more expensive, and more complex to resolve.
We need interim solutions that meet people where they are, get them indoors quickly, and create the conditions for stability and recovery. Interim supportive housing provides immediate relief to our unsheltered neighbors and a cost-effective, timely solution for cities.
The Path to Functional Zero Unsheltered
Across California, cities are demonstrating that it’s possible to design coordinated, citywide strategies to reach Functional Zero Unsheltered – a future where we have enough interim housing or shelter beds so that no one is forced to sleep outside.
Getting there means rethinking how we respond to homelessness. We need to close the gap between crisis and recovery, and build systems that don’t leave people behind.
That’s where interim supportive housing comes in. It gives cities a fast, humane way to bring people indoors and connect them to on-site services to support their journey toward stability.
THE RESULT
Fewer encampments. Safer streets. And most importantly, real pathways from living on the street to housing stability at scale.