Funders Together for Housing Justice released a new publication, Caring Collectively: How Health Funders Can Step into the Movement for Housing Justice to End Homelessness. It is designed to support how health-focused foundations can engage in housing justice work in ways that align with their existing priorities.
Developed through the collective wisdom of the Health Funders for Housing Justice network, this resource reflects a shared understanding that housing is one of the most powerful social determinants of health.
This resource:
- Articulates the relationship between poor health outcomes and homelessness
- Introduces a housing precarity continuum, illustrating where health services, systems, and advocacy can intervene
- Frames housing justice as values that apply across every stage of housing insecurity
- Identifies three entry points for health funders to engage with the housing and homelessness field
- Profiles Funders Together members California Health Care Foundation, Cedars-Sinai, and HealthSpark Foundation, offering concrete recommendations grounded in practice
While written with health funders in mind, this resource offers actionable guidance for any foundation whose priorities intersect with housing. This paper also clarifies an essential truth: ending homelessness has always required housing justice. Homelessness is the result of racist and oppressive policy decisions that must be repaired and reversed. Moving people indoors, while critical, has never been sufficient on its own.
To read the report, click here.