7Hills was founded in 2001 as a day center, providing meals, clothing, food and other basic resources to people experiencing homelessness. The shelter has since expanded to provide a wide variety of services, including three types of re-housing programs. In 2007, the shelter built the Walker Family Residential Community, which provides transitional housing and permanent supportive housing … More 7Hills Homeless Shelter
During the covid-19 pandemic in the early 2020s, the 7Hills Homeless Center established a camp for members of the community living without shelter in an effort to provide them with more protection from the virulent infection. Safe Camp was established on 13 acres of wooded, city-owned land west of Curtis Avenue and between Huntsville Road … More Safe Camp
Development of affordable housing for veterans, eventually named Patriot Park, began about 2018 on land at the southeast corner of College Avenue and North Street. Previously, a floor of the Washington Regional building on North Street had been leased to serve as a veterans home for a limited number of residents. The land catty corner … More Patriot Park