About Homelessness
Hundreds of people struggle to find a home for themselves and their families every night across the country. According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, over 575,000 people struggle to find a home for themselves and their families every day.
In Pasadena, 542 people find themselves homeless on any given night. Some have temporary respite in emergency shelters. Others are working their way towards self-sufficiency in transitional housing. The majority, however, are sleeping on the streets or in abandoned buildings in severe living conditions that put their lives at risk. Every person has his or her own barriers to housing: a lost job, compromised relationships, increased rent, domestic violence, mental illness, substance use.
The Pasadena Partnership believes that as a community, we can work to ensure homelessness is rare, brief and non-reoccurring. The solution is surprisingly simple – housing.