by HomeRise Staff | Mar 24, 2025 | News
HomeRise is proud to honor the exceptional contributions of its employees through the prestigious Award of Excellence. This recognition celebrates individuals and teams who have demonstrated outstanding dedication, leadership, and commitment to excellence in serving...
by HomeRise Staff | Mar 18, 2025 | News
Members of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) recently toured HomeRise’s recently renovated San Cristina Apartments at 1000 Market Street, gaining firsthand insight into the transformative impact of permanent supportive housing (PSH). During the tour, ULI members had the...
by HomeRise Admin | Aug 14, 2023 | News
SF Chronicle: SF’s best new homes are meant to support the formerly homeless13.7.23 HomeRise wins ULI Award
by HomeRise Admin | Aug 14, 2023 | News, Spotlight
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by HomeRise Admin | Jul 13, 2023 | News
13.7.23 HomeRise wins ULI Award
by HomeRise Admin | Jun 5, 2023 | News
6.1.23 New CEO Janea Jackson Press Release
by admin-chp | Oct 3, 2022 | News
The Civic Center Hotel on 20 12th Street, right at the beginning of Market Street, at once represented both a new beginning for those who called it home and those who have found home through the services it provided. As one of the pioneers in the first wave of...
by admin-chp | Jul 20, 2022 | News
SF YIMBY, by Andrew Nelson Jazzie Collins Apartments has officially opened ahead of schedule at 53 Colton Street in San Francisco’s Hub neighborhood. The six-story building, named after one of the city’s famous social activists, has created 96 new units of permanent...
by admin-chp | Jul 15, 2022 | News
Office of the Mayor San Francisco, CA — Today, Mayor London N. Breed joined City officials and community leaders to celebrate the grand opening of the Jazzie Collins Apartments, located at 53 Colton Street. The 96-unit, 100% permanent supportive housing development is...
by admin-chp | Jun 25, 2022 | News
While we have listed upcoming Pride activities this weekend in SF at the end of this post, recent Supreme Court decisions demand our awareness that the arc of history doesn’t always bend to greater choice, freedom, and justice especially in the short term. The...
by admin-chp | Jun 17, 2022 | News
Statement on Juneteenth from the HomeRise DEI Taskforce Juneteenth serves as a symbolic milestone on our journey toward a perfect union; celebrations at churches, parks, parades, and barbecues, are filled with sounds of Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, Miles Davis, and...
by admin-chp | May 16, 2022 | News
On a busy stretch of Lombard in the Marina District, an unassuming building on the corner of Lombard and Scott plays host to a population of residents with a remarkable spirit of determination and integrity. This building, Edward II is one of two HomeRise properties,...
by admin-chp | Apr 29, 2022 | News
Zygmunt Arendt House holds a special place in the HomeRise portfolio as it was the first of our permanent, supportive housing developments dedicated solely to formerly homeless seniors when it opened its doors in 2010. A truly unique property, Zygmunt Arendt House...
by admin-chp | Mar 24, 2022 | News
The Rachel Townsend Apartments at 1750 McAllister Street rise twelve stories above San Francisco’s Western Addition. Rachel Townsend’s legacy stands taller. The daughter of prominent Fillmore minister and NAACP Vice President, Reverend Arnold Townsend, political...
by admin-chp | Dec 23, 2021 | News
A temp agency provides job placements for those that complete its job training Working Nation, by Laura Aka HomeRise, a San Francisco nonprofit that has been around for more than 30 years, helps secure housing for the homeless population and offers job training and...
by admin-chp | May 12, 2021 | News
San Francisco Chronicle, by Mallory Moench After a fire tore through a Victorian on Shotwell Street in the Mission, the building — which used to house six seniors in a residential care home — sat empty for six years. Small residential care facilities like the one at...
by admin-chp | Apr 21, 2021 | News
San Francisco Public Press, by Nuala Bishari The selection of Shireen McSpadden to lead the city’s homelessness department is being greeted optimistically by officials who have dealt extensively with San Francisco’s chronic inability to find shelter for all its...
by admin-chp | Apr 21, 2021 | News
More than 30 years ago, the norm for helping someone experiencing homelessness was to put them up in a small, furnished room — and hope for the best. That changed when nonprofit housing developers and homelessness advocates came together and formed Community Housing...
by admin-chp | Apr 5, 2021 | News
San Francisco Examiner, by Joshua Sabatini San Francisco is expanding a new program to the Bayview that aims to be an alternative to policing by having a team of behavioral health professionals and paramedics respond to certain 911 calls. The Street Crisis Response...
by admin-chp | Mar 29, 2021 | News
2021 HG Magazine, The Heffernan Group Community Housing Partnership is a San Francisco nonprofit that provides a wide range of services to people experiencing homelessness. To CEO Rick Aubry however, its real job is stabilizing lives. CHP‘s main metric for success is...
by admin-chp | Mar 4, 2021 | News
San Francisco Chronicle, by J.K. Dineen Over the past year the ceremonial groundbreaking, where politicians and developers put on shiny hard hats and celebrate the city’s latest real estate milestone by flinging ceremonial dirt with ceremonial shovels, has vanished...
by admin-chp | Feb 19, 2021 | News
San Francisco Public Press, by Nuala Bishari Nearly one in every 10 of San Francisco’s permanent supportive housing units — earmarked for people experiencing homelessness — is sitting empty. The number of vacant units has climbed 58% since September and represents...
by admin-chp | Feb 19, 2021 | News
Bisnow, by Jacob Bourne San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood is slated to get more affordable supportive housing units to help alleviate the city’s homelessness crisis. Merchants Capital just secured a construction loan from Merchants Bank of Indiana for the...
by admin-chp | Feb 17, 2021 | News
San Francisco Examiner, by Ida Mojadad Pandemic, budget surplus offer rare ‘window of opportunity’ to quickly acquire more units More than 50 advocacy groups on Wednesday urged city officials to use available resources to buy struggling hotels that they say could...
