Kingdom Causes

City Net is committed to breaking the cycle of homelessness in the communities we serve by connecting neighbors experiencing homelessness to transformative care and innovative housing solutions.

City Net's parent nonprofit Kingdom Causes, Inc. was formed in Long Beach, CA, in 2003 in part to streamline homelessness services in the city by establishing and leading a collaboration among faith congregations, city government, and nonprofit organizations. City Net worked in partnership with these providers to develop collective, systems-wide goals, strategic action plans, and measurable results and thus—by promoting collaboration over competition—helped create and lead an initiative that was partially responsible for a 26% reduction in homelessness in Long Beach (City of Long Beach, 2015).

By 2013, City Net’s work proved so effective that the City of Anaheim asked us to replicate our impact in Orange County. Since then, we have expanded our services through contracts across California. The multi-sector collaborations we lead through these contracts have transitioned more than 10,000 people from the streets to housing.

Today, we work together to provide services that will result in ending street-level homelessness through the provision of street outreach, case management, housing navigation, transitional/bridge housing, non-congregate shelter operation, family reunifications, community mobilization, census coordination, and more. We are committed to reducing homelessness to functional zero through the means of collaboration and data-driven solutions. Functional zero is the state of a community where services and housing are available for every individual who may need them.

2023 Numbers
• 3,454 Client Placements (Positive Exits)
• 922 Permanently Housed
• 32,099 Client Interactions
• 63,049 Shelter Bed Nights Provided
• 64,123 Motel Bed Nights Provided
• 147,198 Meals Provided
• 8 Community Censuses

We also provide monthly dashboard reports to all of the cities in which we work, which can be found on our website.

We are always in need of volunteers and collaborative partners, and are also constantly looking for new teammates to formally join us as the need arises! For more information on these, check out:

• https://www.citynet.org/?form=donate
• https://www.citynet.org/volunteer
• https://www.citynet.org/careers

Our list of contracts and partnerships with cities and counties is growing, but currently we can be found doing work in over 40 communities throughout Los Angeles County, Orange County, Riverside County, Sacramento County, San Diego County, and Santa Barbara County.

City Net is about really seeing and ensuring that people that are facing some sort of crises in their life-whether that be a relatively recent crisis that is causing them to be homeless or some people who have been out on the streets for quite a long time -- get the help they need . It's the idea of making sure our neighbors who are experiencing homelessness know that we as a collective community of folks are doing our best to get organized, utilizing data to inform really important decisions of resource allocation, and making sure that we get those resources to those families and individuals. We don't just provide a bunch of phone numbers, but really help them and be their champion to help them navigate through the resources that do exist.

I have been the Board Chair for City Net and its overarching nonprofit organization Kingdom Causes for since 2015, and it has been amazing to see the growth that has taken place in the scope of what it does and its geographical expansion. When it first started, City Net just submitted a pilot proposal to the City of Anaheim, and it didn’t even fully know what it was getting into. Since then, it’s expanded to a total of six counties in California and can’t hire people fast enough to cover the needs and opportunities being presented. As a businessman, I saw the opportunity to steer City Net strategically, financially, and personnel-wise, and it has been my joy to see it flourish in ways that might not have happened otherwise.

While homelessness is a crisis in this state that is alarming, sad, and devastating, we believe we are a unique solution to the overall problem, and thus, are motivated and excited that we have been able to grow at the rate that we have. To us, that means that our communities and government agencies are prioritizing ending homelessness, and they also believe that we are doing important work to such an end.

Growth of this scale makes the administration, data collection and analysis, and overall organizational systems difficult to keep on top of, not to mention seeing the big picture strategically and systemically and not just putting out fires. However, we are committed to doing so and have seen a variety of creative tools, collaborative solutions, new branches of service, and the hiring of powerful, strategic, and passionate people to help us be on the cutting edge of ending street-level homelessness in this state. It is our goal to be a model of best practices on this issue for service providers across this nation.