The Action Plan is a three-year roadmap for addressing homelessness in California between 2025 and 2027. It is designed to serve as a tool the Council will use to organize and assess its investments, ensuring that efforts are strategic, measurable, and aligned with our shared vision of preventing and ending homelessness.
Download the Action PlanThe Plan opens with the Council’s Vision: an equitable and just California in which homelessness is rare, brief, and never more than a one-time experience.
To support the achievement of this vision, the plan includes:
The following goals are intended to measure progress toward our north star of providing housing and services to everyone experiencing homelessness.
Increase the annual percentage of people who move into emergency shelter, transitional housing, or permanent housing after experiencing unsheltered homelessness, from 42% to at least 70%.
Increase the annual percentage of people who move into emergency shelter, transitional housing, or permanent housing after experiencing unsheltered homelessness, from 42% to at least 70%. Reduce overrepresentation of people who identify as Black or African American, Native American or Indigenous, and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander among those experiencing unsheltered homelessness.
Ensure everyone experiencing unsheltered homelessness enters into emergency shelter, interim housing, or permanent housing (100%).
of people who were experiencing unsheltered homelessness moved into shelter or housing. Source: HDIS (CY 2023)
Increase the annual percentage of people experiencing homelessness who move into permanent housing from 18% to at least 60%.
Increase the annual percentage of people experiencing homelessness who move into permanent housing from 18% to at least 60%. Ensure that people who identify as Black or African American, Native American or Indigenous, and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander exit to permanent housing at rates sufficient to address their overrepresentation among people experiencing homelessness.
Ensure everyone accessing homelessness services moves into permanent housing (100%).
of people served exited homelessness and moved into permanent housing. Source: HDIS (CY 2023)
The following goals are intended to measure progress toward our north star of providing housing and services to everyone experiencing homelessness.
Ensure that at least 95% of people who move into permanent housing do not experience homelessness within six months. Monitor return rates among people who identify as Black or African American, Native American or Indigenous, and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander to determine what disparities must be addressed.
Ensure all people who move into permanent housing do not experience homelessness again within 6 months (100%).
of people who exited homelessness and moved into permanent housing did not return to experiencing homelessness in 6 months. Source: HDIS (CY 2023)
Increase access to publicly funded health and social safety net services for people at risk of homelessness in order to address health and economic vulnerabilities.
Increase access to publicly-funded health and social safety net services for people at-risk of homelessness in order to address health and economic vulnerabilities.
Ensure everyone at-risk of experiencing homelessness who is eligible for publicly-funded health and social safety net services (such as Medi-Cal, CalWORKs, SSI, and others) have access to them.
CalHHS and Cal ICH are launching a homelessness data integration project to determine the methodology for measuring this goal in 2025. Once this project is completed, Cal ICH will provide baseline data and set a numeric goal for the remaining duration of this Action Plan. Cal ICH will also explore data sharing agreements with other Council member departments and agencies, including CDCR, to support the measurement of this goal.
Permit more than 1.5 million homes, with no less than 710,000 of those meeting the needs of low– and very low–income households.
Permit more than 1.5 million homes, with no less than 710,000 of those meeting the needs of low- and very low-income households.
Permit 2.5 million homes by 2030, with no less than 1 million of those for low- and very low-income households, as outlined in California’s Statewide Housing Plan and in alignment with the statewide housing goal.
890,000 units have been permitted since 2018, 126,000 of those being low- and very low-income units. Source: Housing Elements Annual Progress Report Dashboard (CY 2023)
By outlining its coordinated strategies and clear performance metrics, the Plan demonstrates
the level of alignment and collaboration required to effectively address homelessness and
provides insight into the state’s efforts to do so. The Council also hopes this plan is
utilized by local jurisdictions and external partners to ensure coordination in the work to
prevent and end homelessness goes beyond state partners.
Below is a link to the Action Plan as well as a table that can be used to filter through all
the Strategic Investments and Actions listed in the plan. Additionally, we will include
quarterly updates from our Council departments and agencies about progress made toward their
commitments in the plan. Check this page periodically for additional updates.
Use this interactive table to explore the commitments Council departments and agencies have made to preventing and ending homelessness. Drill down into the details using the filters or search function. See the full Action Plan for more information.
Fiscal Year 2022–2023 Action Plan Implementation Progress Report
DownloadAction Plan for Preventing and Ending Homelessness in California – Updated for FY 2023–2024
DownloadFiscal Year 2020–2021 Action Plan Implementation Progress Report
DownloadAction Plan for Preventing and Ending Homelessness for FY 2020–2023 – Adopted March 2020
DownloadFiscal Year 2021–2022 Action Plan Implementation Progress Report
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