The Eco Village Project of Fresno

We provide temporary housing to unhoused persons. Temporary living quarters were provided for up to 14 people at a time during 2020. Since we opened in 2013 we have provided temporary living quarters for 83 individuals. Besides individual sleeping quarters, we provide extensive common areas including two kitchens, three bathrooms, laundry facilities, computer access and more. The expenses listed above include utilities, repairs and maintenance, and expenses incurred in adding more sleeping quarters to enable us to serve more clients. The revenue listed above is from rent that is charged for the two bedrooms in the common building.

We provide residents with the basic necessities of living while in their temporary housing units, including cleaning and hygiene supplies, personal care items, access to healthy food grown on the property, clothing and bedding as needed. Fourteen clients were helped in this way in 2020.

We provide assistance to residents as they seek permanent housing. Assistance for moving on includes help with applying for housing, help with first month's rent and any deposits, help with transportation help with furnishings and help with other moving expenses. In 2020 five people move on to new housing (the average over the life of the project is nine per year). The help we provide is typically fifty percent of the total cost to the resident, such as fifty percent of the first month's rent, etc. They have to match what we provide with their own resources. Three residents took advantage of this matching program in 2020. We also cover the costs of residents in need of proper ID to get birth certificates, drivers licenses or other ID. We also cover some medical and educational expenses in some situations. Two residents were aided in this way in 2020.