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HomeAid Looking to Expand Shelters in San Francisco Bay Area

Established at the start of 1999 as the charitable arm of the Home Builders Association of Northern California, the Northern California chapter of HomeAid has supported homeless shelters in the Bay Area valued at $4 million. An estimated 75,000 people are homeless in that region’s nine counties on any given night.

The chapter has provided the largest HomeAid shelter to date, the East County Family Transitional Center in Antioch, CA.

At the top of its development initiatives this year, the chapter is working with William Lyon Homes and Pulte Homes to add beds to Shepherd’s Gate in Livermore and working with Christopherson Homes and Cobblestone Homes to expand the Aston Avenue Project for homeless families in Santa Rosa.

On the drawing board for next year are 100 beds at the Mission Solano Life Formation Center in Fairfield for single adults and victims of domestic violence.

In addition to safe housing, residents of HomeAid shelters receive the social services and educational and job training support they need to return to the mainstream of the community.

Among those on hand at PCBC to discuss opportunities to support the HomeAid program was Douglas Krah, regional president of Standard Pacific Homes of Northern California and Home Aid’s 2004 chairperson.

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