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HOST
Housing Options for Students Today
An innovative non-profit preventing homelessness for college students.
Every college student deserves an opportunity to thrive. Every graduate is an asset to our community.
HOST is a community-engaged strategy to address housing needs without costly emergency shelters or transitional housing programs. HOST requires no infrastructure investment, making it highly cost-efficient.
A group of students, experts, & advocates devoted two years to planning and launching HOST, a program based on best-practice host home models.
HOST matches students who need short-term housing with hosts who provide a safe, private, affirming space in their home. Volunteer hosts are vetted and receive ongoing support to ensure access to resources and training in boundary-setting, managing expectations, conflict mediation, & cultural humility. Students prepare for long-term stable housing with support from a caring case manager advocate.
HOST was designed with the support of Point Source Youth, a national leader in solutions to youth homelessness with proven results, and it’s the first host home program specifically for college students in the U.S.
Mission
To prevent college student homelessness by providing temporary safe and stable housing in the homes of local hosts and assisting students to exit the host home into permanent housing
Vision
HOST’s vision is that every college student in Wake County NC is safely and stably housed while they pursue their academic goals
“The program is kind of a unique solution
to college-student homelessness. As far
as we know, this is the only host home
program specifically for college students”
