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Welcome to the HomeUnite.Us wiki!

Welcome to Hack for LA's HomeUnite.Us project!

Our mission is to empower organizations to scale life-changing host home programs for homeless youth, envisioning a future where every at-risk young person has a safe place to call home and the opportunity to thrive. By leveraging our technology, we help agencies optimize their host home programs, streamlining operations so program coordinators can dedicate more time to building meaningful relationships with youth and fostering long-term, transformative outcomes.

We're working with our partners at Safe Place for Youth (SPY) to develop a workflow management tool, digitizing key moments within SPY’s Host Homes initiative to make the process scaleable, reduce institutional bias, and effectively capture data.

SPY’s host homes program is centered around housing young people, 18 - 25 years old. Their approach focuses on low-cost, community-driven intervention by matching a willing host with a guest or group of guests, providing a stable housing environment for youths who are experiencing homelessness and seeking stable housing.

On any given night in LA county, an estimated 3,926 youths in LA county ages 18-24 experience homeless. Youths are one of the fastest-growing segments of the population of people experiencing homelessness, with a 24% increase from last year. Fortunately, over 2,000 youths previously experiencing homelessness moved into housing last year, many with the help of local community organizations such as SPY. Our tool aims to help Host Homes program administrators digitize their current process, reduce repetitive tasks, and make the matching process more enjoyable for everyone involved.

Please see the links below for more details about the project, and how to get involved.

Joining HomeUnite.Us

Vision and Roadmap

Home Unite Us Google Drive

Team Roster

Meeting Times

PM/Org Meeting:

Every Other Tuesday at 6:00PM Pacific

General Team Meeting:

Every Tuesday at 6:30PM Pacific

PM Team Meeting:

Every Thursday at 6:00 PM Pacific

Design Team Meeting:

Every Monday at 6:00 PM Pacific

Research Team Meeting:

Every Wednesday at 4:30 PM Pacific

Engineering Team Meeting:

Every Thursday at 5:30 PM Pacific

Current Links to site

Development Site - where we accept prs

Test Site (not working) - where we push prs to for stakeholder acceptance

Production Site - live site

original spy demo (frozen) -> Please bring this back

Temporary login (not working)

Stakeholders

Point Source Youth [PSY] (National Stakeholder)

Safe Place for Youth [SPY] (Local Stakeholder)

• Key Stakeholder Process Documents