Learn more about the Campaign to End Family Homelessness in the Treasure Valley.
The Campaign to End Family Homelessness is a community initiative to end family homelessness in Ada County by 2026.
The Campaign was launched by a group of driven local funders, leaders, and partners who came together to say no one, especially our families with children, should experience homelessness. No family in crisis should have to wait for the intervention we know would end their homelessness. And they were going to do something about it.
The goal of the Campaign is to do as much as we can to end family homelessness by preventing housing loss as often as possible and responding quickly to families in a housing crisis. To achieve this goal, the pooled Campaign funding is made available to partners to expand three proven interventions to help end homelessness for families with children:
Prevention
Prevention stabilizes families and keeps them housed, thereby ensuring children don’t endure the trauma that comes from living without a home. In turn, we will be better positioned to support the families in our community currently experiencing homelessness.
Quick and short-term assistance for families experiencing brief economic hardships helps provide stability. This type of assistance offers families light support to gain stable housing, curbing the need for more costly interventions.
Rapid Resolution Assistance
Supportive Housing
Supportive housing provides the rental assistance and case management needed to house and stabilize families. Rental assistance helps make housing affordable and individualized support services help keep families in housing long-term.
This graphic describes the continuum of care that the Our Path Home partnership provides to families experiencing housing instability and homelessness. Jesse Tree is the lead prevention agency.
By supporting our agencies, you can help us make the vision of home a reality for every child in Ada County.
Dedicated Units Program: If you are a property owner or manager, help rehouse families with children in your units by joining Our Path Home’s Dedicated Unit Program here.
Donate: Give directly to our Campaign partners at CATCH and Jesse Tree.
Volunteer: Get in touch with any of our partner organizations that provide services to families experiencing a housing crisis.
Get Involved: You can get involved with Our Path Home to help build understanding about homelessness and advocate for solutions for our neighbors in Ada County, sign up for Our Path Home updates here or get in touch with us at info@ourpathhome.org.
Campaign Outcomes: Last Updated July 2021 – May 2024
The Campaign, a five-year initiative, has had a major impact since officially beginning in July 2021 with the first funding distributed to Jesse Tree, CATCH, and the Boise City/Ada County Housing Authorities. The community support, work of our partner agencies on the ground supporting families, and system collaborations have been critical in the success the Campaign has seen along the way.
To see more data from the initiative, head to the Campaign to End Family Homelessness Dashboard.
Collectively, the Campaign to End Family Homelessness has inspired more than $11 million of new investment into ending family homelessness since launch.
With the support of the Leadership Cabinet, Our Path Home raised just over $3.6 million for the Campaign to End Family Homelessness from 29 donors and community leaders. In addition to this, the City of Boise surpassed their original $2 million pledge by investing over $8.1 million to purchase an apartment complex that will be converted into 48 new homes that will be paired with permanent rental assistance and support services for families with children experiencing homelessness.
In the first three years, the Campaign spend almost $1.6 million to support the effort and for Year 4 Our Path Home has disbursed over $1 million directly to partner agencies to expand services. For the first four years of the Campaign to End Family Homelessness, funded partners have received a total of:
Jesse Tree: $744,777 to provide direct assistance to families facing eviction.
Campaign Funding
Boise City/Ada County Housing Authorities: $99,896 to add staff support for households receiving rental assistance.
CATCH: $1,286,112 to increase re-housing program capacity that provides direct financial assistance, housing navigation, and case management support.
Our Path Home faces a challenging path forward. Low supply, high demand, and rising costs of housing in Ada County created the perfect storm - making it the most difficult it has ever been to secure affordable housing units for families exiting homelessness. Our partnership had access to campaign and additional federal funds over the last few years, but now federal funds are depleted as demand for services is rising, making things even more difficult for our families in need. Adding to that the cost to support families – both to prevent the loss of housing and get rehoused - is increasing across all partner programs, due in large part to 35% increase in rent prices over the last three years.
In spite of increased demand, Our Path Home partners are responding by working to prevent more evictions, rehouse more families, and meet the needs of our neighbors faster than ever before. Our Path Home is staying the course to achieve our shared goal of net zero.
Year 4 and Beyond
Members of the Campaign to End Family Homelessness speak to the community about the urgent need to end homelessness for children.