A proven path to ending homelessness in three years
An op-ed from our founder, Claudio Bono
It started with one person. I funded a ten-night hotel stay for a young man who was sleeping on the street. Those ten nights gave him something he hadn't had in a long time: a door that locked, a bed, and a moment to breathe. In that window he reconnected with his family, and he left to start over with them in Florida.
Ten nights changed a life. It made me ask a simple question: what if we could do that at scale?
Americans are sitting on more than $25 billion in airline miles and hotel points that will never be redeemed. At the same time, more than 580,000 people sleep without shelter every night. The resources to help already exist — they're just locked up in loyalty programs instead of working for people who need them.
Give A Roof bridges that gap. By pairing donated rewards and funds with centralized intake, triage, and immediate shelter, we believe we can chart a realistic, dignity-centered path to ending homelessness in three years. Not by arguing about it — by acting on it.
