Increased investment in funding to address homelessness in California has created an opportunity for counties to play a more significant role as system leaders in their local homelessness response networks. New funding creates exciting opportunities to help more vulnerable community residents, however, the new funding comes with expectations to achieve system-level performance measures that cannot be achieved in isolation, but in tandem with cross-sector homelessness response system partners. As such, system leaders who manage departmental homelessness programs must increase their understanding of the value of their investments as a contributor to the local homelessness response system; and align funding with program goals, objectives, and outcomes to do their part to achieve anticipated results.