HomeAid Looking to Expand Shelters in San Francisco Bay Area
HomeAid Northern California participated in last month’s PCBC in San Francisco to increase participation in efforts to design, build and renovate residences and shelters for temporarily homeless individuals and families in that city.
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.