
About HomeAid San Diego
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The Basics
HomeAid San Diego is a local affiliate of HomeAid. We attack the reality of homelessness with a unique and collaborative approach. Through housing development and community engagement, our mission is to help those experiencing homelessness to build new lives.
Vision Statement
HomeAid’s vision is to be a vital force in creating safe and dignified housing and programmatic facilities for those who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
Mission Statement
HomeAid’s mission is to help people experiencing or at risk of homelessness build new lives through construction, community engagement, and education.
Core Values
Inclusiveness: Valuing that every individual has worth and human dignity through a willingness to help our neighbors in times of need and to understand the unique stories behind each individual we serve.
Collaboration: Embracing working together as a community to achieve what is not possible alone.
Integrity: Ensuring that everything we do is accomplished with a sense of responsibility, honesty, respect, confidence, and a commitment to stay consistently aligned with our mission.
The Power of a Triangle
The Triangle is one of the most simple shapes yet is exudes strength, stability and can bear the weight cast upon it from a variety of angles. The Triangle is often found in various elements of construction including building support and trusses. Equally as strong, are the three sides of HomeAid’s Triangle, as they are each critical components to fulfilling our mission and clearly demonstrate how HomeAid exists to serve those who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
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Construction
Building quality & dignified housing is essential to our mission.
Community Engagement
It takes a community to build and rebuild a community.
Education
Let’s help empower one another through education.

5th Grade Student, Poway Unified School District

Essentials For Young Lives Event

Brookfield Residential Partners With HomeAid San Diego On Memory-Care Homes

Hawthorne Veterans and Family Resource Center and Haven House Year-Round Shelter

HomeAid San Diego History
Our Track Record
HomeAid San Diego has built or renovated thirty projects, with outstanding builders acting as Builder Captains and hundreds of local companies donating critical materials and services.
HomeAid San Diego’s projects benefit foster youth, women, emancipated foster youth, and survivors of domestic violence; veterans, seniors, disabled individuals, abused and neglected children, and young mothers 18-23 and their children. These homes service more than 600 homeless individuals on any given night.
$7.2 million of in-kind labor and donated materials have been generated, amounting to 24% of total project costs. The total value of completed project is $30.3 million.

HomeAid San Diego is one of 19 local Affiliates across 13 states.
“The capacity to care defines the best of who and what we are in communities.”
— Mark Read, HomeAid San Diego Founding Board Member