Community by community we will provide much needed homes.
We Did It!
$7.2 Million Raised
towards our $7.0 Million Goal!
To Our Incredible Community of Supporters –
The Homes Heal Hearts (HHH) campaign was a leap of faith with the bold goal of raising $7M to build innovative, dignified housing for our neighbors. We are proud to announce that we surpassed our goal and actually raised $7.2M as of January 2026.
We have been blown away by your response to this dream. Nearly every request led to a gift. We achieved our goal with the support of over 250 donors and gifts ranging from $20 – $1M. Proving that, yet again, we can move mountains when we work together.
The campaign was built on the hypothesis that private philanthropy would unlock significant public investment. Our first two projects have given us confidence in this approach, demonstrating that one dollar of private funding can catalyze two to three dollars more of public revenue.
Along the way, we also learned that the flexibility of private revenue is priceless. In some cases, your donations funded early pre-development work that prepared us to apply for and win major public grants. In other cases, your gifts closed a critical funding gap, the final piece that made a project possible.
Here is the latest on two new cottage community projects that YOU have made possible.
HVWC is now home to six formerly homeless seniors who are thriving in their new community, wrapped with support from Hope Solutions’ service team and the congregation. Please hear from Paula about the incredible impact your support has made in her life.
Hope Village Walnut Creek is the first-of-its-kind affordable cottage community in Contra Costa County. The project is a proof point for innovation in housing design, partnerships, and funding.
While traditionally built affordable homes cost nearly $1M per unit, our retail development cost of these factory-built homes was approximately $360,000 per unit. Thanks to donated labor and materials from subcontractors and contributions from the City of Walnut Creek, our actual cash cost for construction was closer to $210,000 per unit.
The 20-year estimated total cost of the project is $6M, of which we contributed $1.5M of our HHH campaign funds, and leveraged $4.5M in public funds. Put another way, every dollar you donated unlocked an additional $3 for the Village.
Village of Hope – Pittsburg
Our second project, Village of Hope Pittsburg at the Church of the Nazarene, will soon build beautiful, dignified, cost-effective 1- and 2-bedroom cottages for homeless youth and young adults (ages 18-25) with on-site comprehensive support services. We’re thrilled to share that we have cleared regulatory hurdles and have secured all layers of local, state and federal funding needed to complete the construction and successfully operate the cottage community for 20 years. Construction of the 16 units is expected to begin in the spring with occupancy in the fall.
None of this work would have been possible without you. Your belief, your partnership, and your willingness to invest early and boldly have turned ideas into homes and hopes into realities. And we are just getting started.
With deepest gratitude,
Our community continues to face a housing crisis. In 2022, there was a 34,065 unit shortfall of permanent affordable housing. Time, cost, building regulations, and NIMBY-ism create significant challenges to building traditional affordable housing. Housing holds the key to families staying together, and to seniors continuing to thrive.
Watch the news story on NBC News Bay Area about our first project!
We are partnering with several faith communities to explore the construction of cottage communities to add more affordable housing in the County. These developments are planned from six to twenty-five units. They will consist of 1 or 2-bedroom unit cottages, in-unit laundry, full kitchens, shared common space, and most importantly, on-site services as consistent with our model of providing permanent housing and support services. Together, we can build bridges from despair to hope by providing affordable, stable homes and supportive services for those who need them most.
Hope Village Walnut Creek
Village of Hope Pittsburg
Our housing development model is aligning resources. These pieces come together to provide permanent supportive housing to break the cycle of homelessness.
Hope Solutions is uniquely positioned to create innovative housing solutions through our deep partnerships with local faith communities. By leveraging unused land and new building techniques, we can bring housing to our community with decreased cost and time. These developments are planned from six to twenty-five units and consist of studio, one or two-bedroom unit cottages, shared common space, and most importantly, on-site services, consistent with our model of providing permanent housing and support services. Please join us in saying “Welcome home!” to our most vulnerable neighbors
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