Housing Status of Social Work Center Guests

Brooke Goalen is an intern this semester in St. Anthony’s Social Work Center. She is a senior at Calvin College and a psychology major, and is doing her internship through the Westmont in San Francisco Off-Campus program.

In the Social Work Center at St. Anthony’s, the most common forms of housing for our guests are SRO Hotels, Permanent Housing, or Shelters. The Social Work Center offers client information and referrals to different types of housing in the Bay Area. The SWC also offers services with Back Rent and Security Deposit Assistance, in addition to partnering with the Tenderloin Tech Lab to host a monthly housing search workshop. The remainder of our guests (25 %) identify as either homeless or living in a non-permanent housing situation.