| San Joaquin, CA | 800,000 | 4732 – (2024) | The San Joaquin Community Response to Homelessness (2020) | Coming Soon | Coming Soon | View the San Joaquin Community Response to Homelessness Strategic Plan 2020 |
| Long Beach, CA | 450,000 | 3,595 – (2025) | Coming Soon | Coming Soon | Coming Soon | |
| Spokane, WA | 230,000 | 2,021 – (2024) | 5-Year Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness | Coming Soon | Coming Soon | 2020-2025 5-Year Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness |
| Fremont, CA | 225,000 | 807 – (2024) a 97% increase since 2022
| Fremont Homelessness Response Plan (2024) | Fremont’s Homelessness Response Plan (HRP), published in May 2024, serves as a roadmap to address homelessness through coordinated, data-driven solutions aimed at removing barriers to assistance, expanding housing opportunities, and enhancing community quality of life. The plan’s core goals are to halt the growth of homelessness by increasing exits to permanent housing (Goal A), to significantly boost pathways to housing so individuals remain homeless for less than a year (Goal B), and to reduce the impact of unsheltered homelessness on the community (Goal C). Aligning with regional plans like Alameda County’s Home Together 2026, the HRP strives for a system where homelessness is “rare, brief, and non-recurring,” ultimately working towards “functional zero” | Fremont’s Homelessness Response Plan explicitly avoids deterrence strategies, instead focusing on comprehensively serving those experiencing homelessness within the city through prevention and expanded housing opportunities. The plan notes its current FY 23-24 budget of approximately $7.59 million significantly prioritizes crisis support and mitigation activities (79% of spending) over prevention and housing pathways (17%). It highlights a critical imbalance, with $17 spent on crisis/mitigation for every $1 on housing pathways. To shift this, the plan proposes targeted investments aiming for a $15 million total budget by year five. Specific initiatives include significantly expanding rapid rehousing to 140 slots and launching a shallow subsidy program for 145 households, bolstering prevention efforts with 60 new slots, increasing safe parking options, extending winter relief services year-round, enhancing encampment management through dedicated field staff and structured responses, and improving coordination to identify new interim and permanent housing sites. | View Fremont’s 2024 Homelessness Response Plan |
| Santa Rosa, CA | 175,000 | 1,365 – (2024) | City of Santa Rosa Homelessness Solutions Strategic Plan 2023-2027 | Santa Rosa’s Homelessness Solutions Strategic Plan outlines a five-year framework focused on cross-sector collaboration, rehousing interventions, and reducing inflow into homelessness. The strategy includes strengthening homelessness prevention programs, expanding interim and permanent housing inventory (including Project Homekey conversions and supportive housing), and enhancing service navigation for unsheltered individuals. A central goal is reducing the visible presence of street homelessness through better access to care coordination, encampment resolution protocols, and prioritized housing pathways. The plan is informed by stakeholder engagement, local data, and best practices from the federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness. It identifies three target populations—chronically homeless individuals, families, and transition-age youth—and ties interventions to measurable objectives, regional partnerships, and funding alignment with local Measure O and ARPA resources. | Santa Rosa’s approach is centered on a Housing First orientation, with an emphasis on service navigation and coordinated housing placement rather than deterrence or enforcement. While the plan references encampment management and public impacts, it does not recommend the use of exclusionary design, enforcement sweeps, or criminalization-based interventions. Instead, it calls for the development of proactive encampment resolution protocols tied to housing offers and outreach services. The city intends to address visibility in public spaces through expanded shelter and interim housing options. The strategy is notable for its integration of upstream prevention with neighborhood livability concerns, positioning itself as a systems level alternative to physical deterrents. Estimated costs are broken down across prevention, housing operations, and staffing, with flexibility to scale based on external funding. | View the 2023 Santa Rosa Homelessness Solutions Strategic Plan |
| Concord, CA | 122,000 | 173 – (2024) | City of Concord Homelessness Strategic Plan (2024) | Concord’s 2024 Homelessness Strategic Plan outlines a multi-pronged approach grounded in systems-level coordination and practical housing interventions. The plan’s framework is anchored by six core strategies: Mobile Resource Centers for in-field outreach and service delivery; Rapid Re-Housing to quickly stabilize newly homeless individuals; Scattered Site Interim Housing and Scattered Site Tiny Homes to provide decentralized, low-barrier shelter options; Centralized Interim Tiny Homes for structured transitional housing; and Motel Interim Housing to expand capacity using existing commercial properties. These strategies are tied together through prevention programs, coordinated referral systems, and increased performance measurement. A strong emphasis is placed on working in collaboration with local nonprofits, faith-based groups, and county agencies. Importantly, the city aims to establish an Encampment Response Policy that prioritizes engagement and voluntary service connection over enforcement. Each initiative includes proposed lead departments, potential funding streams (ARPA, general fund, Measure V), and a commitment to quarterly tracking of progress indicators. For municipal audiences, this plan offers a well-organized and realistic model of how smaller cities can blend temporary, scattered, and centralized housing interventions without relying on large-scale shelter projects. | Concord’s Homelessness Strategic Plan reflects a service forward model built around voluntary compliance, mobile outreach, and multi-modal housing interventions. Rather than relying on exclusion tactics or space control measures, the city aims to reduce public space conflicts by expanding access to interim options ranging from tiny homes to motel based shelter. The proposed Encampment Response Policy prioritizes connection over removal, requiring credible housing alternatives before any intervention. With an implementation model that scales through both centralized and decentralized assets, Concord avoids the high cost, high friction infrastructure of traditional shelters while still providing meaningful engagement. This is a collaborative, systems-level strategy designed to balance individual dignity, public safety, and resource feasibility
making it a strong reference point for peer cities seeking durable alternatives to enforcement-based approaches. | 6 Goal Homelessness Strategic Plan |
| Vallejo, CA | 122,000 | 682 – (2024) | FY 2025-29 DRAFT Consolidated Plan Document | The plan identifies homeless persons as a priority population group (second only to extremely low- and very low-income renters). It focuses on implementing affordable housing and community development strategies, leveraging programs like CDBG, HOME, and NSP, and coordinating efforts with the Solano County Continuum of Care (CoC) to provide permanent housing, transitional housing, and supportive services. | The primary focus is on housing solutions, service coordination, and funding mechanisms. There are mentions of general “health and safety public improvements” and “quality of life issues,” but these are not tied to specific design deterrents for the unhoused. | FY 2025-29 DRAFT Consolidated Plan Document |
| Richmond, CA | 114,000 | 388 – (2024) | The City of Richmond Homelessness Strategic Plan | Coming Soon | Coming Soon | View the Homelessness Strategic Plan |
| Vista, CA | 95,000 | 271 – (2024) | Strategic Plan to Address Homelessness | Coming Soon | Coming Soon | View the Strategic Plan to Address Homelessness (2020) |
| Santa Monica, CA | 90,000 | 774 – (2024) | City of Santa Monica 2025 to 2030 Homelessness Strategic Plan
| The Santa Monica Homelessness Strategic Plan for 2025-2030 is structured around Four Strategic Pillars: Prevention: Aims to prevent housed residents from becoming homeless through responsive service provision, increasing diverse housing supply, and implementing programs like expanding affordable housing, the “Preserving Our Diversity” (POD) program, Right to Counsel, and Flexible Financial Assistance. Intervention: Focuses on minimizing the length and severity of homelessness and its impacts by providing effective supportive services, utilizing data for outreach, establishing 24/7 responder networks, and expanding diversion programs. Coordination: Emphasizes collaboration with regional partners and advocating for policies at local, state, and federal levels to advance strategic goals and ensure equitable allocation of services and resources. Communication: Aims to clearly convey the city’s homelessness response and outcomes, and promote community input through a citywide communications strategy and integrated processes for community requests. | The Santa Monica Homelessness Strategic Plan 2025-2030 is built on a Housing First philosophy, encompassing four core pillars: prevention, intervention, coordination, and communication. This comprehensive strategy aims to expand housing supply, including affordable, permanent, and transitional options, and to grow diversion programs to reduce individuals entering homelessness. While specific spending for the 2025-2030 period isn’t detailed, the plan notes over $250 million previously invested and relies on local, state, and federal grants (CDBG, HOME, NSP) to fund its initiatives. The city’s approach to managing homelessness issues in public spaces emphasizes expanding services, utilizing 24/7 responders, and fostering positive community spaces through direct outreach and support, rather than focusing on physical design deterrents. | Santa Monica Homelessness Strategic Plan 2025-2030 |
| Alameda, CA | 75,000 | 455 – (2024) | The Road Home: A 5 Year Plan to Prevent and Respond to Homelessness in Alameda. | Coming Soon | Coming Soon | The Road Home: A 5 Year Plan to Prevent and Respond to Homelessness in Alameda. |
| San Luis Opisbo, CA | 49,000 | 1,175 – (2024) | Coming Soon | Coming Soon | Coming Soon | View the Strategic Plan for Homelessness Response |
| San Diego, CA | 1,390,000 | 5,866 – (2025) | City of San Diego Community Action Plan on Homelessness | Coming Soon | Coming Soon | City of San Diego Community Action Plan on Homelessness |
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