Partnership Between San Mateo County and ECS

For over 40 years, Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco (ECS) has been at the forefront of our community’s efforts to address the homelessness crisis in the San Francisco Bay Area. ECS offers a broad range of essential programs that help the most vulnerable members of our community secure housing and economic stability. Innovative and client-centered programs include high quality supportive housing, shelter, behavioral health counseling, housing navigation and problem solving via Adult Coordinated Entry, workforce development and employment stabilization, senior services, and meal programs for 13,000 people experiencing homelessness, extreme poverty, and food insecurity each year. Please review this information brochure to learn more about ECS’s approach to Housing First and positive supportive housing outcomes.

San Mateo County has identified housing the homeless as a key priority. To reach functional zero in this County, they have identified the need for additional interim shelter and permanent supportive housing. The acquisition of 721 Airport Blvd. supports a “housing first” approach guided by the belief that people need basic necessities like food and a place to live before attending to anything less critical such as getting a job, budgeting properly or attending to substance use issues.