Brilliant Corners

Our vision is a future in which no Californian is homeless or institutionalized for lack of supportive housing. We believe housing is the cornerstone of health, well-being and independence. Every day we listen to people who face seemingly insurmountable barriers to independent living because of a disability, mental health or medical condition, and we provide housing and services customized to ensure their success. Because when each individual has a corner of the world to call their own, our whole community shines.

Brilliant Corners is where housing and services come together. Our goal is to provide integrated access to both as a package deal, meeting the complex housing needs of people facing barriers to obtaining independent community-based housing. Specifically, we build, acquire and renovate, refinance and preserve licensed community care homes. We also develop, own, and manage multifamily supportive housing. We provide comprehensive person-centered property management services, including accessibility and related modifications. We offer individually tailored housing services, including managing the housing search, handling move-in logistics, operating as tenant-landlord liaison, building retention, and providing fiscal agent services. We work directly with individuals and their case managers, partner with service providers to better meet their clients' housing needs, and implement programs on behalf of the regional centers and other public agencies.

We are California’s leading provider of community-based housing for individuals with developmental disabilities transitioning from Developmental Centers—essentially state hospitals—as part of the Community Placement Plan to create community alternatives to institutional settings. We are actively involved in the funding, planning, identification, acquisition, design, renovation, ownership, management, and maintenance of licensed residential care facilities.

Brilliant Corners is also a pioneer at the intersection of housing and health – having launched and scaled multiple scattered-site supportive housing programs for patients experiencing and at risk of homelessness with complex medical, behavioral and other challenges who are referred by hospitals, health clinics, private health plans, behavioral and mental health agencies, case management providers, and other public agencies.

Much of our success is reflected in our numbers. In the past 10 years, we have secured community-based, affordable, supportive housing for nearly 15,000 of California’s most vulnerable, extremely low-income individuals, the majority transitioning from institutional settings or homelessness. Brilliant Corners manages a mixed portfolio approaching over 200 developed, owned and managed properties, plus well over 4,000 units we broker and control in existing market-rate, affordable, and supportive housing properties.

When we launched the LA County Flexible Housing Subsidy Pool (FHSP) in 2014, our goal was to house 300 individuals in the first year. Now, we house approximately 200 individuals every month. Our success has led us to design and launch additional Flex Pool programs in San Francisco County, San Mateo, and San Diego County.