The model
A bedroom with a door that locks, a key of your own, and up to eighteen months — in a neighborhood, not an institution.
The model
We do not build a building. We lease houses that already exist, in neighborhoods where people already live, and we pay above market to be the most attractive tenant on the street. It is the fastest route to a bed and the least institutional place to put a person who has been institutionalized enough.
Every bedroom in the women's house is single occupancy. Every resident holds their own key. For a survivor, one room that no one can enter is not a comfort — it is the condition of being able to sleep.
An eleven-month average stay against an eighteen-month ceiling. Housing search begins in phase two and intensifies in phase three. Nobody is discharged to the street — that obligation is written into the operating manual, not implied.
Active substance use, untreated psychiatric conditions, evictions, no rental history, any discharge characterization including Other Than Honorable. The population every other provider screens out is the one this exists for.
Awake overnight staffing in every women's house from the day it opens — never the house that waits. Men's houses run an on-call standard in year one and convert as revenue allows. We state which is which rather than implying they are the same.
Among 448,290 service members who deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan and separated between 2001 and 2011, those discharged for misconduct were 5.6 percent of separations but 25.6 percent of the veterans homeless at first VA contact — nearly five times the risk (Gundlapalli et al., JAMA, 2015). Yet veterans with Other Than Honorable discharges were only 4 percent of those served by VA's own Grant and Per Diem transitional housing nationally in 2018–2020 (Military Medicine, 2024). The veterans at highest risk are the least reached. That gap is the niche.
