Press Releases

• Grand Opening and Dedication of Workforce Supportive Housing Shelter

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

  CONTACTS:
  Cheryl O'Connor | HomeAid Northern California | 925.768.0234 | coconnor@homeaidnc.org
  Gus Nodal | Infinite PR | 415.732.7825 | gnodal@infinitepr.com

  San Jose, Calif. (January 16, 2012) – HomeAid Northern California recently celebrated the Grand Opening of the newly renovated Workforce Supportive Housing Shelter in Downtown San Jose at 80 South 5th Street. The project was a partnership and collaboration with the First Christian Church and the Downtown Streets Team. A resident told her heartfelt story of first losing her job and then her home and having nowhere to go.

  The shelter provides short term and long term shelter to men and women. The agency provides job skill training and support. They serve over 400 homeless men and women per year. Partners on this project include HomeAid Northern California, Housing Industry Foundation, The Housing Trust and Peery Foundation. A special thanks to William Lyon Homes as builder captain.

  About Homeaid
  HomeAid Northern California is a 501c(3) non-profit organization founded in 1999 as the charitable arm of the Home Builders Association of Northern California. One of the region's most active homeless agencies, HomeAid has built shelters for the transitionally homeless in nearly every county in the San Francisco Bay Area in collaboration with the homebuilding industry and its vendors, partners and suppliers. In addition to providing a safe, comfortable home, the shelters typically offer counseling and job training as core components of their programs.

  HomeAid is currently building additions to the planned 34,000 sq. ft. Mission Solano Bridge to Life Center in Fairfield, CA, which currently has the capacity to house 122 residents. Once completed, the facility will house 162 residents, making it the second largest HomeAid shelter in the USA. Other projects in the works include construction of a new facility at Shepherd's Gate in Livermore, CA; renovation of the First Christian Church in downtown San Jose, CA to provide housing and job training through the Downtown Streets Team project; and renovation of a new Oakland, CA site for DreamCatcher, Alameda County's only emergency shelter for homeless teenagers. A complete list of current and completed shelters can be found here.

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  For more information about HomeAid, including its completed and pending shelter projects, visit www.homeaidnc.org. To arrange an interview please contact Cheryl O'Connor, 925.768.0234, coconnor@homeaidnc.org, or Gus Nodal at Infinite Public Relations, (415) 732-7825, gnodal@infinitepr.com.