Safe and Supportive Parking

Our current Safe Park began in 2017, in collaboration with the City of Morgan Hill, the Interfaith Community of South County, and Morgan Hill Bible Church. This supportive transitional housing model provides eight households with a safe place to live in their vehicle, or a supplied trailer or tiny home, while they actively work toward making a lasting transition to affordable housing. Residents have access to on-site restrooms, showers, laundry and meals, as well as clothing, mail delivery and other supplies and services needed to fulfill their essential needs.

Households meet weekly with case managers to register for services, build up job skills, and follow a customized plan to make them likely to sustain a permanent residence once they attain one. To date, 58% of participants have transitioned to permanent housing.

Since this model has helped successfully transition so many of its residents into

sustainable housing solutions, we want to identify partners and sites where we can work together to offer the same opportunities to those who are ready to take the next step. Specifically, we would like to see Safe Parks in a number of locations in Gilroy, where we have an even greater need to create pathways toward housing for over 700 individuals.