RFP-HHS-2025-08 - Homelessness Prevention Pilot

• Department: Health and Human Services
• Category: Professional Services
• Project description:

  This Homelessness Prevention Pilot provides short-term, flexible financial assistance and stabilization support to households at imminent risk of homelessness. The County will invest in short-term, flexible assistance to help residents maintain stable housing and avoid entering the homelessness system.

  
  According to the 2025 Affordable Housing Needs report, 67% of extremely low-income households in Marin pay more than half of their income on housing costs compared to 4% of moderate-income households. Simultaneously, a 26% reduction in state and federal funding for housing production and preservation has further limited resources for rental relief and social services. With rents rising by 10% in 2024 alone, efforts to establish permanent housing solutions must also address the growing risk of homelessness to be truly effective. This proposal aims to intervene prior to the experience of homelessness by providing short-term, targeted support to prevent displacement before it occurs. It prioritizes services for extremely low-income households and other underserved populations, including residents living in high-risk ZIP codes across Marin County. It is not a housing placement or long-term rental subsidy program; rather, it is designed to intervene upstream—before households experience literal homelessness—by addressing immediate financial and systemic barriers to housing stability.

  
  This project seeks qualified applicants with demonstrated capacity and experience in delivering homeless prevention services to both rural and urban populations, including flexible financial assistance, wrap-around case management services, and legal referrals. The ultimate goal is to deliver critical stabilization resources to vulnerable Marin County residents at imminent risk of homelessness — reducing displacement and promoting long-term housing security.

  
  Regional Model for Homelessness Prevention: All Home works to advance regional solutions that disrupt the cycles of poverty and homelessness, redress racial disparities, and create more economic mobility opportunities for people with extremely low incomes. With a group of regional and national experts All Home developed a regional prevention model. Partnering with Bay Area Community Services (BACS), All Home and BACS developed a technology platform to help regionally scale the model effectively. All Home also provides strategic and technical assistance across the Bay Area to advance homelessness prevention and promote a data-driven, equity-focused model to keep individuals housed and out of the homelessness response system. Currently, across the Bay Area, approximately three individuals are becoming homeless for every one person being housed through existing systems. The region’s undersupply of housing combined with extreme income inequality and low incomes that don’t cover high housing costs drive high-risk households into homelessness even more.

  
  To support implementation and coordination, this project will utilize the BACS online platform. The BACS platform provides a secure, data-informed screening and coordination tool that assigns risk-based priority scores to applicants based on factors such as prior experiences of homelessness, residence in high-risk zip codes, and other social determinants. The platform enables service providers to track referrals, document services and financial assistance as well as monitor household outcomes. The extensive capabilities of BACS are crucial to the development and result tracking of the project.

  
  All proposers must adopt the screening and coordination technology platform that is administered by BACS as part of their service delivery model. Applicants should describe how they will integrate this tool with their existing workflows and collaborate with All Home, CBOs, and County partners to ensure seamless data sharing and client tracking.

• Issue date: Friday, August 29, 2025
• Submission due by: Monday, October 6, 2025, 11:59 pm

See RFP-HHS-2025-08 - Homelessness Prevention Pilot for full details.