CivicRise partners with local governments to provide affordable housing and income-generating civic work for individuals experiencing homelessness. One program, two outcomes.
Three steps to launch a CivicRise program in your municipality.
Your housing department signs on. We set up your municipal portal with participant tracking, labor assignments, and outcome metrics.
Individuals experiencing homelessness sign up through intake. We capture skills, availability, and housing status to match them with the right work.
Participants are assigned to city cleanup, maintenance, and beautification contracts. They earn income. Cities get cleaner streets. Everyone wins.
We don't just shelter people. We give them purpose and a paycheck.
Participants transition from homeless to housed through stable income from civic work. 73% housing rate across pilot cities.
Cities redirect existing maintenance budgets through CivicRise. Same work gets done, plus measurable social outcomes.
Municipal portal shows live participant counts, labor hours, housing transitions, and program ROI. Data-driven accountability.
Participants aren't receiving handouts. They're earning a living maintaining the city they live in. That changes everything.
A structured pathway from housing instability to sustainable employment.
Participants receive stable transitional housing from Day 1. No prerequisites, no waitlists.
Residents contribute to city infrastructure projects — park maintenance, facility upkeep, community improvements — earning $18–25/hr.
Income stability + housing stability = pathway to permanent housing and long-term employment.
Common questions from housing directors and city administrators considering CivicRise.
CivicRise operates on outcome-based contracts, not grants. Cities pay per successful housing placement, which means we're financially aligned with results. We're not grant-dependent and don't require municipalities to secure additional funding before launching a pilot.
A standard pilot is an 18-month program with a 50-participant cohort. Participants progress through a wage ladder starting at $18/hr and scaling to $25/hr as they hit milestones. The pilot includes full outcome tracking, case management, and quarterly reporting to your office.
CivicRise handles participant recruitment, skills training, case management, outcome tracking, and program reporting. Your city provides civic labor contracts (maintenance, cleanup, beautification) and housing partnerships with local providers. We do the heavy lifting — you provide the opportunities.
Our target is 90%+ housing placement rate, benchmarked against leading programs like Denver's GLITTER initiative (83% placement). We combine earned income through civic labor with structured case management to achieve sustained housing stability — not just temporary placement.
Per-outcome pricing, typically $15K per successful housing placement. Compare that to the $35,000–$40,000 per year cities currently spend on each chronically homeless individual through emergency services, shelters, and hospital visits. CivicRise pays for itself within the first year.
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