Our Work

Transforming Unsheltered Response

This is one of the most urgent issues facing U.S. cities today. Our model is providing communities across the country the definitive answer.

Transforming

Unsheltered Response

Street homelessness is one of the most urgent issues facing U.S. cities today. Our model resolves street homelessness block by block and encampment by encampment.

Clutch helps cities move people directly from the streets into housing, coordinate the teams needed to close encampments, and establish new boundaries for sleeping in public spaces.

We take immediate action while building systems needed to keep people off the streets. That means strengthening shelter operations and creating rapid pathways out of homelessness, as well as building partnerships to coordinate care for those with the most complex mental health issues.

We're proving that communities do not have to choose between real support for people experiencing homelessness and the public’s desire for safe, vibrant streets. We're delivering both.

to get results

We Work Differently

Our comprehensive solution fixes crucial issues that hold communities back from achieving real results.

Transforming Unsheltered Response

The Deep Dive

Strategy 1:

Move People Directly from Encampments to Housing

Clutch helps communities close encampments site by site by moving people into housing, not simply moving them from one public space to another. Using our Direct to Housing Encampment Response model, outreach, housing, service, public safety, and city teams work together to identify who is living outside, secure housing options, support move-ins, and close each site with a clear plan to keep it from returning.

Learn more about Direct to Housing Encampment Response.

Strategy 2:

Make Shelter Work as a Pathway Out of Homelessness

Shelters work best when they help people move quickly back into housing and keep beds available for the next person who needs to come inside. Clutch helps shelters improve flow, simplify intake, add rapid resolution options, and connect guests to housing faster. The result is a shelter system that gives communities a real alternative to street sleeping and helps people move on from homelessness, not get stuck in it.

Strategy 3:

End Street Sleeping in Larger Areas

Clutch helps communities move from closing individual encampments to ending street sleeping across larger areas, including downtowns, transit corridors, and other high-priority zones. We help communities create the shelter and housing capacity needed to bring people inside, while coordinating outreach, public space management, and law enforcement partners around shared workflows to maintain closures and prevent new encampments from forming.

Strategy 4:

Coordinate Care for the Hardest Cases

People with the most complex needs, including severe mental illness, often cycle between the streets, jail, and crisis care without a clear path to stability. Clutch helps communities build lasting partnerships between homeless response systems, mental health providers, hospitals, and public safety. Together, those partners create one shared plan for each person, remove barriers in real time, and coordinate the support needed to exit homelessness and stay off the streets.

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