Emergency Shelter

If you are in need of shelter, don't wait! Please contact the Santa Clara County hotline operated by the Bill Wilson Center at 408-278-6420 to get assistance.

The City has a history of long-standing support for assisting the unsheltered. The City provides year-round operational funding support for the transitional shelter, Graduate House, which is operated by LifeMoves and has capacity for five adults, in addition to a youth shelter, Quetzal House, which is operated by Bill Wilson Center and has capacity for 40 youth-serving North County.

The City has also partnered with the County of Santa Clara and provided capital funding support for other emergency sheltering, such as the Cold Weather Shelter Program, which is operated by HomeFirst and provides up to 65 beds at the Mountain View campus.

Interim/Transitional Housing

The City also acted boldly in the summer of 2020.  With COVID-19 raging, the majority of locations the unsheltered and unstably housed were living in were outside, in tents, in oversized or passenger vehicles, or COVID-19 State Roomkey hotels. The City, along with public-private partners, including the State of California, County of Santa Clara, nonprofit homelessness services provider LifeMoves, renowned real estate development firm Sares Regis, the Award-winning architect Charles Bloszies, and construction management firm XL Construction collaborated to quickly bring people off of the streets and start them on their path to a long-term housing solution by developing a new interim housing community for people experiencing homelessness.

The site provides rooms for 100 households: 88 individuals and 12 families (approximately 124 people). LifeMoves operates the program. The project is funded by this State’s “Project Homekey." High points about this new program are:

• Governor Visits LifeMoves Mountain View - June 2021 - On Friday, June 25, 2021, Governor Gavin Newsom visited the LifeMoves Mountain View interim housing community to highlight the State’s Homekey program. During the news conference, Governor Newsom showcased Mountain View’s efforts to tackle homelessness through bold, innovative actions during the pandemic. Watch the news conference here.
  
  
• Virtual Grand Opening - May 2021 - The City of Mountain View and LifeMoves jointly hosted a virtual grand opening for LifeMoves Mountain View at 10:00 a.m. Thursday, May 6, 2021. The Project Homekey interim housing community in Mountain View is possible through a pioneering public-private partnership among the City, LifeMoves, the California Department of Housing and Community Development, the County of Santa Clara, philanthropies, and the private sector. Learn more in the news release, or Watch on Mountain View City Television.