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Fremont homeless services referrals are logged as sent when a caseworker sends someone to another organization. Whether the person arrived is often never recorded. Operation Iron Gate, from Pathfinders for Hope, is built to record that part. Fremont organizations can watch its first pilot in the open.
Sent is not served
Picture one person in the City of Fremont. An outreach worker connects them to a shelter, a clinic or a benefits office somewhere in Fremont. This is what each record shows a week later.
Logged
Consent recorded first
Logged as sent
Sent, and still open
Not recorded
Confirmed by the receiving organization
Not recorded
Owned by a named role
“Unknown”
Only into a known outcome
Lane B is the pilot’s design, not a Fremont field result.
The plain terms
The rulebook
In practiceA missing ID does not end a Fremont handoff. The referral stays open while the ID problem is worked, with no promise of same-day eligibility, housing or a bed.
In practiceA “no” from a Fremont provider needs a written reason before it is recorded as a denial.
In practice“Unknown” cannot be picked as the final outcome of a Fremont case. Someone owns the next step until it is known.
In practice“Sent” and “arrived” are two statuses. The sender records one; the Fremont organization that receives the person records the other.
The failure points
In Fremont's 2024 count, 612 people were unsheltered and 195 sheltered, and 62 percent of the unsheltered were living in a vehicle or RV. A referral for someone who sleeps in a car has to reach a person who moves.
Your numbers
The way in
Three ways in for Fremont organizations. None of them asks you to change the system you use today.
Housing held at 90 days is the lead measure. Results go on The Glass with no names, good or bad, so Fremont can judge them.
Tell us your Fremont role: sending, receiving, providing or overseeing. Nothing is signed in a first conversation.
The counter above shows how many of your Fremont handoffs end in a question mark. It stays on your device until you share it.
The questions
No. It has not launched anywhere. The first pilot is being prepared in Vallejo, and no Fremont launch has been announced.
The January 2026 count for the City of Fremont recorded 852 people homeless in Fremont. Up from 807 in 2024, while Alameda County fell 13 percent. Fremont holds about 10 percent of the county's count. Fremont counted 1,026 people in 2022. The 2026 split between sheltered and unsheltered has not been published yet.
South County, which includes Fremont, counted 1,064 people, against 1,074 in 2024. Fremont's Housing Navigation Center, open since September 2020, had housed 293 people by June 30, 2025, and 60 percent of the 258 people who left it moved into stable housing. The city also runs a Safe Parking Program for people living in vehicles and a Mobile Evaluation Team with police, Human Services and Washington Hospital.
Cohort 01 is recruiting in Vallejo. A Fremont organization can request a briefing now. Nothing is signed in a first Fremont briefing.
No. Operation Iron Gate is not a replacement for Alameda County Health's Housing and Homelessness Services, the Fremont Family Resource Center or any provider's own records. It is built to confirm that a referral between organizations reached the person.
For food, the Alameda County Community Food Bank lists distribution sites across the area. Operation Iron Gate is not open for public intake yet. GATEHOUSE, our community platform, where Pathfinders for Hope does your intake, barrier review and the calls to agencies, is open now: register on GATEHOUSE to ask questions and follow the build. Joining GATEHOUSE does not put you in the North Bay Pilot, which runs only in Vallejo and Solano County.
The evidence
Where the Fremont figures come from.
Operation Iron Gate has not been tested in the field, and no results are claimed for Fremont or anywhere else. North Bay Pilot numbers will be published good or bad.
Nearby cities. Read the pages for Hayward, San Jose and Oakland.
The inside track
Operation Iron Gate starts in Vallejo. Its community platform, GATEHOUSE, is open today. Fremont agencies, nonprofits and neighbors can join to watch the North Bay Pilot get built, ask our team anything, and help decide what the full system becomes.
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