At BOSS Homes, we believe the housing crisis cannot be solved with slow, expensive construction alone. Across California, cities are facing growing homelessness while traditional permanent supportive housing can cost $600,000 to $800,000 per unit and take years to complete. While those projects have an important place, they cannot be the only answer to a crisis affecting tens of thousands of people today.
The challenge is not a lack of compassion. Rather, it is a need for solutions that can match the scale and urgency of the problem.
Many people who lose housing are not chronically homeless when they first fall into crisis. Often, it begins with a lost job, rising rent, a medical emergency, or a family hardship. When people fall upon hard times and lose their housing, they have a far better chance of stabilizing if they can be housed quickly, before short-term hardship becomes long-term homelessness.
That is why interim supportive housing matters.
BOSS Homes works with cities, counties, and nonprofit partners to deliver safe, dignified interim communities that can be built in a fraction of the time of traditional construction and at a fraction of the cost. Our modular systems provide private rooms, bathrooms, offices, dining areas, and support spaces that create stability while service providers help residents move toward permanent housing.
Unlike congregate shelters, private units give residents safety, privacy, and dignity. These three things that are often essential for rebuilding trust and restoring stability. Just as importantly, organized communities make it easier for providers to consistently deliver case management, healthcare, behavioral health services, and job support.
Because our homes are factory-built while site work happens simultaneously, BOSS can reduce construction timelines by more than 50% with the all-in-built cost for an interim housing community for less than $60,000 per room, allowing communities to respond faster when the need is greatest.
The reality is simple: the longer someone remains on the street, the more difficult and expensive recovery becomes. Early housing intervention not only reduces public costs, it gives people a better chance to regain independence.
At BOSS Homes, we believe cities should not have to choose between compassion and accountability. With the right housing solutions, they can deliver both.
