What if our community came together for a public campaign about homelessness — human to human, heart to heart, grounded in both lived experience and data?

That is the invitation. Homeless Helping Homeless, along with friends, allies, and advocates across Corpus Christi, is exploring a community-wide education and advocacy campaign designed to help people ask better questions, understand the realities of homelessness, and support solutions that actually work.

The conversation can begin right here, with this monthly platform, and grow outward into deeper community discussion, public presentations, social media conversations, neighborhood meetings, and action teams.

Why a Public Campaign Matters

Homelessness is not only a social issue; it is a human issue. It affects neighbors, families, workers, elders, veterans, people with disabilities, and people trying to survive crisis without the stability of a safe place to live.

A strong public campaign can help replace fear, confusion, and myths with listening, education, compassion, and practical action. It can also create space for people experiencing homelessness to speak for themselves and help guide the work that affects their lives.

What Should the Campaign Include?

We are asking the Corpus Christi community to help shape the content of this campaign. What would you like to see, ask, learn, or include? What questions or concerns should be addressed?

Some possible topics include:

• Myths and facts about homelessness
• Walk a Mile in Our Shoes: interviews with people experiencing homelessness
• Solutions that make homelessness rare, brief, and nonrecurring
• Communities across Texas and the United States that are making real progress
• How to solve homelessness in Corpus Christi
• Where Corpus Christi is in the process, where we are making progress, and where we are stuck
• The cost of responding to people on the streets compared with the cost of permanent, supportive, affordable housing
• What individuals, congregations, businesses, and organizations can do to help

Housing Is Central to the Solution

We believe the homelessness crisis is largely a housing crisis. Health challenges, trauma, addiction, job loss, family instability, and other issues matter deeply, but they are far easier to address when people are safe, housed, and supported.

Housing First approaches prioritize permanent housing as the foundation from which people can pursue stability, health, employment, recovery, and personal goals. Supportive services can then help people remain housed and rebuild their lives.

Locally, Corpus Christi has recently approved federal funding for affordable housing, homeless services, neighborhood improvements, emergency shelter support, homelessness prevention, and rapid re-housing. That public investment creates an important opportunity for residents and advocates to stay informed, ask questions, and help ensure resources are directed toward meaningful, lasting solutions.

Three Questions for Affordable Housing Action

As the community talks about increasing the supply of affordable and supportive housing, three questions can guide the work:

• Who are we creating housing for, and what kind of housing will help people heal, live independently, and succeed?
• Who do we need to partner with to build, refurbish, or expand accessible, affordable, supportive housing?
• Where can housing be repurposed, refurbished, or constructed so that the supply meets the actual need?

How Allies and Advocates Can Help

People often ask, “What can I do about homelessness?” A good place to begin is simple: ask, listen, and team up.

Ask local people with lived experience what they need allies and advocates to do. Listen to immediate concerns as well as long-term hopes. Then team up with other neighbors, churches, service providers, builders, business leaders, and public officials to help turn concern into coordinated action.

The more community input we gather, the more effective this campaign can be.

Join the August Action Team Meetings

Allies & Advocates Action Team

Tuesday, August 11, 2026 at 11:00 AM
All Saints Episcopal Church
3026 S Staples, Corpus Christi

Agenda: Discuss the final draft of the virtual Resource Guide questionnaire and plan next steps; organize the public campaign.

Affordable Housing Action Team

Friday, August 14, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Teal Construction
5110-B I-37, Corpus Christi

Agenda: Who needs affordable housing? Who can we partner with? Where can we build or refurbish affordable housing?

Please Reply and Share Your Thoughts

What would you add to this campaign? What questions should we answer? Would you like to take the conversation to Facebook, such as an “Ending Homelessness in Corpus Christi” discussion, for deeper community engagement?

Please reply with your ideas, concerns, questions, and suggestions.

Fr. Bruce and Homeless Helping Homeless