Urban Vision Alliance

Urban Vision Alliance (UVA) is a nonprofit committed to ending street homelessness through collective action and collaboration between public and private sectors. UVA addresses fragmented approaches to homelessness by breaking down silos and aligning all stakeholders through a digital platform that enables transparency, progress tracking, and resource matching. The platform centralizes efforts, reducing costs, and speeding up timelines to help cities create actionable plans to reduce street homelessness. The model is scalable and replicable, creating a practical way to deliver more housing and improved services for more people at lower costs.Marin County Chapter: We mobilize people and organizations from the private sector to create large scale plans that expands facilities and programs to manage homelessness. To that end, we spent 2023 building a new chapter in Marin County and developing relationships with County and City officials. We also focused on recruiting companies in the housing design/development industry to provide pro bono and discounted services to build specialty housing with services, mostly on free or low cost land. Creating the alliance with a vision for a large-scale solution driven by private sector experts catalyzes a culture change that inspires others to join in and support the growing plan.UVA Digital Platform: Local homelessness related projects are often uncoordinated as is information about them. To develop an adequate and effective city or countywide homelessness related housing project management system, we need tools to align diverse stakeholders and to coordinate and track new housing projects. We also need an easy way for businesses and citizens to see and contribute to the portfolio of projects. We developed the beta version of the web-based platform that will enable cities and counties to more easily coordinate large scale homelessness initiatives by aligning stakeholders, coordinating and communicating the plans, mobilizing the private sector to participate, and tracking and reporting progress. It will be an online place where people go to learn about and participate in large scale homelessness solutions for their city or county.