Our Path Home
Our Path Home
WINTER RESOURCES GUIDE
HOUSING CRISIS HOTLINE
208-336-HOME (4663)
If you are experiencing a housing crisis, call us for resources, information and support.
Our goal is to make homelessness a rare, brief, and singular occurrence by ensuring safe and stable housing for all residents to increase the health and resiliency of our community at large.
Together, Our Path Home partners manage a system of trauma-informed and housing-focused responses to serve community members experiencing crisis. We offer prevention, shelter, outreach, health and housing services.
Through engaging our community, connecting people to available resources, and focusing on evidence-based housing solutions, we are driving positive change and creating a healthier community for everyone. Our Path Home’s priorities are anchored in data-driven solutions, and we measure progress using rigorous metrics of success to keep the community well-informed and involved.
Our Path Home, the public-private partnership working to end homelessness in Ada County, operates from the service model and philosophy that permanent housing is the solution to homelessness.
NEWS
December 17, 2025
Our Path Home Provides List of Warming Spaces, Services
With temperatures getting colder as we enter the winter months, Our Path Home is launching their 2025 Winter Resource Guide to provide a list of warming locations offered by partners throughout Ada County and to highlight expanded services for community members experiencing homelessness, from health and crisis services, to food pantry locations. The Winter Resource Guide is a partnership effort to meet the demand for safe and accessible shelter options during winter. Locations and services are available from December to March. Our Path Home collaborates with local partners including Interfaith Sanctuary, Boise Rescue Mission, Corpus Commons, City of Boise Parks and Recreation, Boise Public Library, CATCH’s Street Outreach and the Treasure Valley Family YMCA.
“During harsh Idaho winters our partners, who already provide emergency services day in and day out, collaborate on a plan that goes the extra mile to try to ensure none of our neighbors are left without a safe, welcoming space to go in the cold,” said Casey Mattoon, Our Path Home manager.
The guide, which outlines specific locations and services, can be found online at ourpathhome.org/get-help/winter-safety-tips/. Community partners and public locations can request printed copies of the Winter Resource Guide by contacting info@ourpathhome.org.
Addressing the winter cold in Ada County requires a community-wide effort, and anyone can support these efforts through a financial or item-based donation. Our Path Home partners are asking for donations of much needed seasonal supplies including socks, gloves and hats, sleeping bags, shoes and more.
"We are seeing more guests than ever before and everything helps,” said Jessica Abbott, Executive Director of Corpus Commons, the daytime emergency shelter in downtown Boise. “The more people we can keep safe and warm during the day means less people on the streets trying to survive safely.”
For a complete list of items in need and how to donate them visit the Winter Items in Need list. You can also donate directly to the Emergency Overflow Program, which gives partner agencies additional funding to expand emergency services to those in need during extreme seasons.
For anyone experiencing a housing crisis, get connected to help by calling the Housing Crisis Hotline: 208-336-HOME (4663).
Our Path Home is the public/private partnership comprising more than 40 agencies committed to ensuring homelessness is increasingly rare, brief, and singular experience in Ada County.
September 29, 2025
Our Path Home Shares 2025 Point-In-Time Count Results
Our Path Home released results for the 2025 Annual Point-in-Time (PIT) Count that show a two percent decrease in homelessness in Ada County compared to last year.
The PIT Count is a voluntary survey of community members, including families with children, who are either accessing emergency shelter or who are spending the night unsheltered, on the street in Ada County. This annual count, conducted each January, is reported to the federal government to help set the federal budget, and locally these numbers help to identify homelessness trends over time and give insight into the effectiveness of our community’s housing programs and homeless services.
Our Path Home’s 2025 PIT Count found a total of 772 community members in Ada County experiencing homelessness on the night of January 19, 2025. The results reflect a small decrease in those surveyed experiencing homelessness from 2024.
Our Path Home also completes the Housing Inventory Count (HIC) on the same night, reporting on the number of beds dedicated to people experiencing homelessness in Ada County. The HIC includes beds in different types of projects, from emergency shelters to permanent housing.
This year’s HIC shows a notable increase of rapid rehousing beds, driven by CATCH’s Taking Root program which housed more families in January this year than during last year’s count, offering 50% more beds than last year (from 109 to 161 beds).
A large driver of that growth is thanks to several years of increased federal funding for the program that allowed CATCH to provide a greater number of beds to families fleeing domestic violence (from 47 to 65 beds). Another part of the growth can be attributed to the Campaign to End Family Homelessness, which last year funded an expansion of the Taking Root program at over $700,000 with private funding allocated to CATCH to address family homelessness in Ada County.
"We've been so grateful for investments from the federal government and the community's support of our work to end family homelessness. It's moving the needle for families in Ada County," said Stephanie Day, CATCH Executive Director. “As we near the end of Campaign funding and the federal landscape is rapidly changing, CATCH is asking our community to lean in to ensure our program can help just as many families, or more, this year.”
Our Path Home Point-In-Time (PIT) and Housing Inventory Chart (HIC) Data
For more information on the Point-in-Time Count, visit this PIT Dashboard
For more information on the Housing Inventory Chart, visit this HIC Dashboard
For more information on trends over time, visit the PIT/HIC Dashboard
August 6, 2025
New Path Annual Evaluation Shares Benefits of Supportive Housing in Ada County
Report estimates a total savings to the community of $11 million
BOISE – Our Path Home, the public-private partnership dedicated to addressing homelessness in Ada County, released the New Path Community Housing 2024 Annual Evaluation analyzing the six years of the program.
The evaluation, conducted by the Idaho Policy Institute at Boise State University, highlights the outcomes and community-wide benefits of New Path, a permanent supportive housing project which combines housing and intensive support services and serves individuals exiting long-term homelessness.