How can we support the most vulnerable populations in our community when they experience homelessness? How might we help prevent  homelessness in the first place? Impact Justice’s Homecoming Project takes a popular idea – home sharing - and applies it to a non-traditional population – formerly incarcerated individuals exiting the justice system. Formerly incarcerated people are almost 10 times more likely to be homeless than the general public. The Homecoming Project model provides a novel and successful path for individuals who might otherwise become homeless to instead re-enter society in a welcoming housing environment.

Impact Justice’s Homecoming Project was the 2021 Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability Winner in Public Policy & Regulatory Reform.

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Aishatu Yusuf is the Vice President of Innovation Programs at Impact Justice where she has created, evaluated, and sustained a portfolio of transformational projects that work to reform and transform social systems.

Jenna Louie is the Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer at Ivory Innovations, a nonprofit with the mission to catalyze innovation in housing affordability. Since 2018, the Ivory team has spoken with hundreds of innovators working on novel housing solutions – learn more at ivoryinnovations.org/database.