San Diego is a city of opportunity — yet for hundreds of veterans, opportunity ends at the sidewalk.

On any given night, 350 to 400 veterans in San Diego are sleeping in cars, tents, or makeshift shelters. Many are dealing with trauma, addiction, or health challenges that can’t be solved by short-term shelter alone. What they need is permanent housing with support built in.

This campaign exists to change that.

Elysian Shores Supportive Housing is a veteran-founded initiative created to deliver a long-term, scalable solution to veteran homelessness, not temporary relief, but a true path back to stability.

We are building something different:

a place where veterans don’t just survive, but recover, rebuild, and belong.

THE SOLUTION

Elysian Shores will convert a distressed downtown San Diego office tower into a “vertical village” of approximately 200 units of permanent supportive housing for unhoused veterans and families.

This model brings housing and services together under one roof, including:

● Private, dignified apartments

● On-site mental health and trauma-informed care

● Addiction recovery services

● Job training and employment pathways

By integrating housing with services, veterans receive the stability needed to heal, work, and re-enter community life permanently.

This is housing designed for long-term outcomes, not temporary shelter.

WHY THIS PROJECT IS POSSIBLE NOW

Downtown San Diego’s office market is facing historic distress. Vacancies are high, and some towers are under foreclosure or selling well below replacement cost.

This moment creates a rare opportunity.

Instead of spending years and millions on new construction, adaptive reuse allows us to repurpose existing office buildings, dramatically reducing costs and accelerating timelines. Core infrastructure already exists, allowing resources to be directed where they matter most: housing veterans.

This approach gets veterans indoors faster, at a lower cost, and at a meaningful scale.

USE OF FUNDS

This GoFundMe represents our foundational fundraising round led by friends, family, and early supporters. Funds raised here unlock the next stage of execution.

Your contribution directly supports:

● Finalizing 501(c)(3) nonprofit formation

● Legal and compliance costs with nonprofit counsel

● Building acquisition due diligence

● Architectural and feasibility analysis

● Legal review and entitlement preparation

● Community, political, and stakeholder engagement

● Essential startup and operational costs

This is the capital that moves Elysian Shores from concept to an investable, executable project.

HOW YOUR CONTRIBUTION HELPS

This early round of support funds the foundational work required to move Elysian Shores from vision to execution. While every gift contributes to the overall effort, the examples below illustrate how donations typically support this phase of the project:

● $50 — Helps cover nonprofit formation and compliance expenses

● $100 — Supports legal and feasibility work related to the housing project

● $250 — Contributes toward early building due diligence and planning

● $500 — Assists with architectural review and legal preparation

● $1,000 or more — Accelerates progress toward permanent supportive housing for veterans

Every contribution, at any amount, plays a meaningful role in advancing this initiative.

YOUR IMPACT

Every dollar given helps move Elysian Shores from vision to execution and brings us closer to creating permanent housing for veterans who have already served this country.

Your support:

● Advances real housing development

● Unlocks future philanthropic and impact-investment capital

● Brings San Diego closer to ending veteran homelessness permanently

This is not a short-term fix.

This is a long-term solution built with dignity, accountability, and impact at its core.

Veterans answered the call to serve.

Now San Diego has the opportunity to answer theirs not with temporary shelter, but with permanent homes and real support.

If you believe veterans deserve more than survival, we invite you to stand with us.

Help build Elysian Shores.

Help bring veterans home for good.