Berkeley Food and Housing Project

EASING AND ENDING
THE CRISIS OF HOMELESSNESS
IN OUR COMMUNITIES

Since 1970, Berkeley Food & Housing Project has been a provider of homeless services. We believe that everyone has a basic right to food, housing, and stability, and we work one-on-one with our clients to help them move toward independence and into safe and affordable housing as quickly as possible.

GET HELP

If you are Homeless, please call:
211
This phone line is open 24/7.
Tell them you are homeless and looking for help
If you are a homeless veterans call: 1-855-862-1804

As of November 1st, 2017 the coordinated entry system has become a county-wide system providing services for people who are homeless across Alameda County.

GET INVOLVED

Be Part of the Solution—help us end the crisis
of homelessness in our community.

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WHAT'S NEW

A Veteran’s Journey from Homeless to Housed

These are just some of the people we have been able to help through our program Roads Home: A Pathway to Housing for Homeless Veterans which operates across the counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Solano, Sacramento, and Amador.

“Harriet” and “Kevin” first met in the 1960’s but when Kevin joined the Army and got stationed in Florida they lost touch. Nearly 50 years later they rediscovered each other on social media and picked up right where they left off.

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Not Everyone Can Go Home for the Holidays

During the last month our attention was drawn to the devastation of wildfires and the thousands of people who found themselves newly homeless. Closer to home, hazardous air conditions forced many of us to stay indoors, but for our unsheltered neighbors that was impossible.  The arrival of rain only begins a new season of cold and damp. Winter – and the holiday season in particular – is an especially hard time for our unhoused neighbors who are without the most basic comforts of home that many of us take for granted. [Read More…] about Not Everyone Can Go Home for the Holidays