For the past 35 years Glide has provided services to the most marginalized population in the San Francisco Bay Area, through its meals program, community health clinic, licensed childcare and an array of other support services.
Realizing that a strategic and multi-pronged approach is most effective in solving the generational poverty issues faced by its target population.
Glide developed a continuum of services to assist its clients in the journey to self sufficiency. Glide's strategic goal is to move homeless and unemployed people into entry and mid-level positions in the job market by providing the counseling, and family support services that help achieve long term economic stability.
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125 MASON STREET building is visioned as the mid-point pathway to self sufficiency and economic sustainability in the lives of such low income working people and their families.
In 1998, Glide developed its first permanent supportive housing project, 333 TAYLOR STREET. Cecil Williams Glide Community House (CW House) is 52 units of subsidized (30% AMI) housing built for homeless individuals, families, clients suffering from dual diagnoses, and people surviving with HIV/AIDS. Unit sizes vary from studios to three bedroom apartments. Click HERE for more information.
A SPECTRUM OF HOUSING OPTIONS
Encouraged by the success of CW HOUSE, Glide formed a separate and independent non-profit development corporation, Glide Economic Development Corporation (GEDC), to embark on two additional residential buildings pictured above:
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125 MASON STREET – consisting of 81 apartments for low income working families who have been successful in creating employment stability in their lives, but who still face economic challenges. (60% of the Area Median Income (AMI) as established by the city and County of San Francisco). Construction is underway, and scheduled for completion by October 2008. Click
HERE for more information.
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149 MASON STREET – consisting of 56 studio units for the the chronically homeless. Construction is expected
to begin this Spring and completed at the end of calendar 2009. Click HERE for more information.
This complex of three buildings helps accomplish Glide's strategic housing goal, to provide a wide spectrum of housing options. The two newly completed building will provide 731 rental units of affordable housing in the Tenderloin. The 125 Mason Street project will give Glide the opportunity to offer services that focus on low-wage workers and their families. This housing is envisioned as mid-point in the pathway to self-sufficiency and economic sustainability in the lives of low income working people.