Star Community Home
Statement on temporary closure of Star Community Home
Thanks to generous funding from Salesforce Foundation and the generous support of Little Children’s Aid, Star Community Home gives families a safe place to live while developing a plan to secure stability and housing.
More than 85% of homeless families across the nation are headed by single mothers. Families typically arrive at Star Community Home in crisis: homeless, fearful, hungry, lonely, desperate and penniless. The home immediately offers a safe place to live, providing nutritious meals and beginning to build the skills necessary for a self-sufficient future. Families exit Star with housing, a stable source of income, and the skills they need to establish permanent exits from homelessness.
Star's single-parent family housing stabilization success rate: 97%.
San Francisco Chronicle columnist Heather Knight has described Star Community Home as a “successful, creative answer to a perplexing problem” that has been “universally hailed as a model for solving family homelessness.”