Another Year at BACS Marks Unprecedented Uplifting of Our Community – 8,000 people served by BACS

Today, our community is experiencing a crisis. There are thousands of people living on the streets – 8,000 people in Alameda County alone are homeless on any given night. You know that nobody wants to be homeless, to be struggling with mental health issues, or to be getting out of jail without a community to care for them. What if BACS were not here to help them?

There is no single “cause” of homelessness, and there is no “one size fits all” solution. In today’s palpable crisis, everyone is desperate and It is easy to focus on the failure – the first time someone loses their housing. It is sensationalized to report on the person who fell back into addiction and returns to the street. But what I know is truly sensational is that BACS has helped thousands of people find housing, and that more than 80% of them have stayed housed more than 2 years after getting off the streets. I believe that we can do this – that we can end the housing crisis.

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