In September 2016, the Center for Social Innovation launched SPARC (Supporting Partnerships for Anti- Racist Communities) to understand and respond to racial inequities in homelessness, through research and action. Through an ambitious mixed-methods (quantitative and qualitative) study, the SPARC team documented high rates of homelessness among people of color and began to map their pathways into and barriers to exit from homelessness. The SPARC team analyzed HMIS data for each SPARC community as well as general population numbers and poverty population numbers in the United States and in each SPARC community.