We are a California Nonprofit Religious Corporation, organized as a 501(c)3, and are based in Los Angeles, with operations focused initially across California
We intend to substantially reduce the homeless population in California. Specifically, this entails the removal and restoration to society of tens of thousands of involuntarily homeless from the gross population of 180,000 now substantially unsheltered. Aside from the many obvious benefits of reversing homelessness for all citizens, resolving this problem will also prevent the needless loss of 2,000 lives now suffered annually by this community.
Our approach, while comprehensive, is also fundamental. Each of the key drivers of homelessness require practical solutions; we have endeavored to marry current-day research with data collected over twenty years and applied that knowledge to solving the specific problems that require redress in order to achieve lasting results, and a meaningful reduction in homeless populations.
This is a population suffering daily, that has grown 19% in size over the past five years (2020 ~ 2024) despite California having spent $24 billion to solve it. This is partly due to policies, including “Housing First”, that stubbornly focus resources on housing, while ignoring the many factors causing homelessness. We stratify the population to finally address their many varied needs, including triage, addiction, COL/Wage Gap, job placement, mental health needs, interim housing, and ultimately, permanent housing.
Vincent Van Gogh
Homelessness is a protracted, complex, and multilayered problem, caused by many factors and with symptoms not easily solved. Historical data puts the preceding statement in stark relief.
Ours (Joshua’s) is a humanitarian effort, not a political one, and our analysis is not intended to assail political parties. Any fair and reasonable analysis will describe the many attempts by city, county, and state governments to address the homelessness epidemic, all of which, in the aggregate, as having substantially failed.
We believe this is due in large part to a persistent focus on housing, to the general exclusion of the many factors that cause homelessness; any one-dimensional approach is not likely to succeed. Housing is the ultimate desired outcome, but there are many issues needing to be addressed before housing can be sustained by this populace.
• Total Homeless Population in the U.S (2022): 582,000 as of 2022
• Total Homeless Population in the U.S. (2023): 653,100 as of 2023 (a 12% increase over 2022)
• Total Homeless Population in California (2023): 181,399 as of 2023
• CA Share of the U.S. Homeless Population: 27.77%
• Population of CA Homeless in 2018: 151,278
• Total Amount Funded by CA between 2019-2023: $24 Billion
• Increase in CA Homeless Population 2019 – 2023: 19.91%
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