Overview
The HomeMore Project’s housing program is focused on developing Permanent Supportive Housing communities in rural regions across California. Our model is designed to provide individuals experiencing homelessness with not only stable housing, but also the long-term support and sense of belonging necessary to rebuild their lives.
Rural communities often face significant barriers in addressing homelessness, including limited housing supply, fewer behavioral health resources, and geographic isolation from larger support systems. At the same time, many rural areas possess unique strengths: stronger community identity, lower land costs, and opportunities to build housing that is deeply integrated into the local environment. The HomeMore Project is committed to creating housing models that respect the local community, and incorporate such community members in its development.
Our developments are intentionally designed at a smaller scale for community cohesion. Each resident has a defined personal living space where they can feel secure, independent, and respected. Rather than viewing housing as a temporary intervention, we view it as the foundation for human flourishing. Our goal is to create environments where individuals are not only sheltered, but supported in building healthier, more connected, and more sustainable futures.
Our First Project- Yreka, California
First Housing Project Site in Yreka, California
Mockup of Project Site in Yreka, California
A First Look at our Upcoming Housing Project
Frequently Asked Questions
Yreka represents the kind of rural community where HomeMore believes housing solutions are urgently needed and where a smaller, locally connected housing model can make a meaningful impact. Rural regions are often overlooked and underserved, with unique barriers such as limited housing supply, fewer behavioral health resources, and geographic isolation from larger support systems.
The Yreka Housing Program is HomeMore’s first housing project and is being developed as a tiny-home permanent housing community within HomeMore’s broader long-term housing vision.
HomeMore’s housing model is designed to be smaller-scale, community-centered, and shaped by the voices of people with lived experience. The organization’s housing materials say each resident will have a defined personal living space where they can feel secure, independent, and respected. HomeMore also conducted a focus group in Yreka with people who had received Makeshift Travelers in Siskiyou County, gathering feedback on unit design, communal space needs, programming priorities, storage, charging access, privacy, personal safety, and on-site support.
Emergency shelter is usually designed to provide short-term crisis relief, such as a temporary place to sleep. The Yreka Housing Program is intended to go beyond short-term shelter by providing a more stable living environment, personal space, supportive services, and a pathway toward greater independence. HomeMore’s public materials say the organization views housing as a foundation for human flourishing, not simply a temporary intervention, and its broader transitional housing language emphasizes housing, nutrition options, mental and physical healthcare, educators, employers, and other resources.
The Yreka Housing Program is being designed around the needs of Yreka and Siskiyou County, with input from people who have experienced homelessness locally. HomeMore has already conducted a focus group with individuals in Siskiyou County who received Makeshift Travelers, and that feedback is helping shape the site plan, modular unit specifications, and service model. Final eligibility, referral pathways, residency requirements, and prioritization criteria will be shared as the program gets closer to opening.
You can support the Yreka Housing Program by donating to The HomeMore Project, contacting the team about partnership opportunities, or helping fund the broader work that connects immediate outreach to long-term housing. HomeMore’s donation page lists several ways to contribute, including online giving, Zelle, check, Venmo, and GoFundMe. HomeMore’s homepage also explains that support for the Makeshift Traveler provides immediate relief while helping build connections with people who share the organization’s long-term vision for its Transitional Housing Program.