Berkeley Food and Housing Project

Alameda County has informed us that their COVID-19 quarantine facilities for people experiencing homelessness are at full capacity. We rely on these facilities to safely isolate clients at our Dwight Way shelters who test positive for COVID-19. The Omicron variant is placing our most vulnerable and unhoused clients at higher risk, and we are seeing troubling news of other shelters in the area hit hard by Omicron infection in San Francisco, San Jose, and Sonoma County. 

December 21^st, the start of winter and the longest night of the year, has been nationally recognized as Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day since 1990.  

I truly believe that in many ways [this client] has Annum to thank for her life, if she had not gotten care, she would die of Breast Cancer and because of Annum’s fastidious care to her, she has another chance at life.”  

~ Marcia Chappell, Breast Care Nurse Navigator