Housing Programs

FYSB: FYSB is a transitional housing program that offers medium-term housing to single homeless pregnant/parenting Transitional Age Youth and their children. Participants must be between the ages of 18-21 with a maximum of two children. Participants can self-refer by contacting our intake email or dropping into one of our offices. Participants must contribute to a savings account and develop a housing exit plan.

Since the maximum length of stay is 18 months, participation in services is required.

Supportive services include case management, life skills, job search assistance, therapy, child development coaching, and school enrollment. FYSB offers participants support services that promote self-sufficiency and stability. Participants must abide by the Terms of Tenancy and contribute 30% of their income. Upon successful program exit, the participants who contribute to rent will receive a portion of their contribution to assist them with their transition. *

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CalOES XH: The CalOES XH Transitional Housing Program provides medium-term housing to single mothers ages 18- 24. Participants must be experiencing homelessness and pregnant/parenting with up to two children. Participants must also be survivors of domestic violence, human trafficking, or some other type of victimization.

Though not required, participation in services is highly encouraged to promote self-sufficiency like case management, life skills, therapy, and child development coaching. Participants must abide by the Terms of Tenancy and can stay up to 24 months. Participants work closely with their case managers to identify a safe and secure housing plan. Participants must contribute 30% of their income.

Traditional Housing Program+: The THP + program is for youth ages 18-23 who aged out of the foster care system. Youth can be single, pregnant, or parenting with up to two children. The County provides referrals, and participants can stay up to two years or until age 23.

Participants must engage in support services that promote self-sufficiency like work, school, life skills, and child development coaching. Participants must abide by the program's Terms of Tenancy and contribute 30% of their income. Regardless of the contribution amount, $50 monthly goes towards their emancipation check.

Upon successful program exit, participants are provided an emancipation check and offered the furniture bought by Home Start.

Home Start’s Permanent Supportive Housing provides long-term housing for single, pregnant, and/or parenting Transitional Age Youth, ages 18-24. All participants must complete the Vulnerability Index - Service Prioritization Decision Assistance Tool (VI-SPDAT) and be referred through the Coordinated Entry System (CES).

Eligible participants must be currently experiencing homelessness and have up to two children.

Requirements for this program also include having a documented disability (e.g. anxiety depression, substance abuse, etc.).

Home Start offers wraparound services to encourage participation in activities that will promote self-sufficiency, such as case management, life skills, assistance with job search, and enrolling in school. Participants must abide by the Terms of Tenancy and contribute 30% of their income towards housing. Upon successful program exit, the participants who contribute to rent will receive a check with their savings to assist them in their transition.

Since 2009, Home Start has worked to provide affordable, supportive housing and individualized future planning to women who are pregnant or have small children and find themselves in unstable living environments. Our Maternity Housing Program offers these mothers a safe home and educational programs to give them the tools to become self-sufficient and develop healthy relationships with their children.

Home Start's Maternity Housing Program offers more than a roof over their heads. This is a 360º support system providing evidence-based parental education, Child Development Specialists, counseling, financial literacy training, higher education, and employment resources, and so much more. Our goal is to provide affordable, supportive housing and the services needed to build secure, loving, and self-sufficient families.

Housing: In the face of an affordable housing crisis across California, San Diego has one of the highest rates of unsheltered youth below the age of 25. With the rent of a studio apartment averaging $1,413, securing housing is difficult for all of us, especially trying for a single mother with childcare responsibilities.

Home Start currently offers more than twenty apartments which have saved over 265 families since they opened and we are working hard toward opening another five units in 2020.

Security: True security comes from our clients being able to provide a sustainable standard of living for their own families. Our Case Managers and facility staff create individualized plans to reach their goals and achieve independence. In addition, our social enterprises (the Home Start Thrift Boutique and Bright Futures Candles) offer on-the-job training opportunities within walking distance from each housing facility.

This program not only helps mothers who want to provide a better future for their families but creates a generation of young San Diegans who will grow up in secure and loving homes with a bright outlook.