About HomeAid

HomeAid is a leading national non-profit provider of housing for today's homeless. The organization builds and renovates multi-unit shelters for America's temporarily homeless families and individuals, more than one million of whom are children, while they rebuild their lives.

Founded in 1989 by the Orange County chapter of the Building Industry Association of Southern California (BIA/SC), an affiliate of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), HomeAid has expanded throughout the country to 20 chapters in 14 states and two national offices: Pensacola, FL and Newport Beach, CA (headquarters).

HomeAid has provided housing for more than 100,000 individuals who have been rendered temporarily homeless due to circumstances beyond their control, including:

• Abused children
• Victims of domestic violence
• At-risk teens
• People living with HIV/AIDS
• Those who are temporarily out of work
• Victims of natural disasters and other catastrophes
  

Through the generosity of America's builders, their trade partners, financial institutions, and the public, HomeAid has built more than 200 multi-unit shelters with an additional 30 in development. These shelters provide more than 5,000 beds per night nationwide. Each bed serves an average of three people per year.

Our Mission
HomeAid's mission is "to build and maintain dignified housing where homeless families and individuals can rebuild their lives." Although our mission gives us broad latitude to engage in building projects across the entire Continuum of Care, from emergency shelters to transitional housing to permanent supportive housing, every HomeAid project includes support services that help residents move toward self-sufficiency, such as education and job skills training, physical and emotional support, etc.

HomeAid builds multi-unit shelters for homeless families and individuals, then donates it to charities such as Boys Hope Girls Hope, Mercy House, Salvation Army, Volunteers of America, YMCA, and others.

Most HomeAid housing serves people who are temporarily homeless due to circumstances beyond their control: job loss, natural disasters and other catastrophes, illness and medical problems, domestic violence, and more.

To be eligible for HomeAid housing, a charity must provide social services that enable families and individuals to move beyond their temporary situation, transform their lives, restore their self-worth, and regain self-sufficiency.