City Net was formed in Long Beach, CA, in 2005 in part to streamline homelessness services in the city by establishing and leading a collaboration among faith congregations, city government, and nonprofit organizations. City Net worked in partnership with these providers to develop collective, systems-wide goals, strategic action plans, and measurable results and thus—by promoting collaboration over competition—helped create and lead an initiative that was partially responsible for a 26% reduction in homelessness in Long Beach (City of Long Beach, 2015). By 2014, City Net’s work proved so effective that the City of Anaheim asked us to replicate our impact in Orange County. Since then, we have expanded our services through contracts across Southern California. The multi-sector collaborations we lead through these contracts have transitioned more than 3,000 people from the streets to housing, with a retention rate of over 92%. Today, we work together to provide services that will result in ending street-level homelessness through the provision of street-outreach, case management, housing navigation, bridge-housing, shelter operation, reunifications, community mobilization, census coordination, and more. City Net is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, a dba of Kingdom Causes, Inc.
