Roadmap Home
The Roadmap Home is a bold, long-term plan to create the future we want for California by building affordable homes, protecting low-income renters, ending homelessness, and advancing racial equity and economic inclusion.
Vision & Goals
Create 1 Million New Affordable Homes
for low-income Californians and
those experiencing homelessness,
including deeply affordable homes
for those with the lowest incomes.
Protect 3 Million Low-income Renter Households
from losing their homes, including
the more than 130,000 who
face eviction each year.
End Homelessness
for the more than 180,000 Californians who are unhoused every night and the more than 350,000 who are unhoused throughout the year.
CLOSE RACIAL EQUITY GAPS
in homelessness, housing affordability and stability, homeownership, and access to opportunity.
Policy Change
Housing is the foundation for long-term equity, resilience, and sustainability.
To meet the state’s housing need and achieve the Roadmap Home’s goals over the next 10 years, California must embrace systemic reform and implement equitable, evidence-based solutions along four primary pathways:
Pathway One: Immediate Relief
Roadmap Home policies ensure that renters have equitable access to housing and are protected from displacement, market speculation, and systemic discrimination. They also provide a route from homelessness to housing security for individuals and families in need.
Pathway Two: Address and Repair Racial Harm
The policies in this Pathway create targeted investments and strategies to repair racial harms, address racially discriminatory housing laws, expand access to opportunity-rich communities, and remove housing barriers experienced by California’s Native American communities.
Pathway Three: Transform the State’s Role
California – more now than ever – must be a beacon for progress. This pathway presents a set of strategies that will grow state leadership in addressing the housing crisis, meaningfully reform its governance of housing systems and policies, and provide the funding needed to produce and preserve affordable housing and invest in solutions to homelessness.
Pathway Four: Dramatically Increase Revenue
These policies address the biggest roadblock to reversing California’s housing crisis: the lack of sufficient and sustained funding. Policies identify short- and long-term sources that can produce the revenue needed to fund the full Roadmap agenda.
What’s at Stake
California has been hit hard.
The opportunity to build healthy, fulfilling lives for ourselves and our families is in jeopardy. Systemic racial injustice, a widening wealth gap, and a shortage of homes people can afford are affecting our livelihoods and threatening what we love about California.
The Opportunity
We are calling on all Californians to embrace the need for bold, structural change.
Roadmap Home 2030 is the first comprehensive, evidence-based plan to address the root causes of housing insecurity and homelessness in California. If we choose to act now, we can protect what we love about California while making it a healthier, happier, and more equitable place to live.
Our roadmap will bring everybody in California
Anchor Partners
Housing California is one of the state’s largest nonprofit housing and homelessness advocacy organizations—dedicated to improving life within our golden state. Housing CA opens minds and organizes people most impacted by housing injustice and their allies to effectively advance equitable solutions grounded in social and economic policy research.
A statewide “do-and-think tank,” the Partnership provides expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners to create and preserve affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes.
In Partnership With
The Budget Center is a nonpartisan, data-driven organization that works to improve public policies affecting the economic and social well-being of Californians with low and middle incomes.
The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality has five objectives: to monitor trends in poverty and inequality, to support scientific analysis of poverty and inequality, to develop evidence-based policy to address and prevent poverty and inequality, to disseminate data and research on poverty and inequality, and to train the next generation of scholars, policy analysts, and policymakers.