In 2023, the Holy Spirit Conference TPHS program helped 125 people in 46 households with expenditures of $62,025 to help them. The TPHS program wishes to acknowledge and thank all of the kind and generous organizations and individuals who donated to the program this year and made it possible for TPHS to continue to help people avoid becoming homeless due to evictions or to transition from homelessness to having their own homes. Since the Holy Spirit Conference of St. Vincent de Paul started the program five years ago, it has helped 471 people in 172 households with expenditures of $218,066.
SACRAMENTO ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION–$5,000. The Mission of the SAR Charitable Foundation is to coordinate the activities of Sacramento’s real estate professionals in addressing critical housing needs, assisting non–profit organizations to meet other basic needs, and supporting sustainable communities. This foundation has provided grants to TPHS for five years, since the program began operation.
SACRAMENTO COUNTY TRANSIENT OCCUPANCY TAX GRANT–$10,000. This is a project/program based award providing support to non-profit organizations located in Sacramento County that carry out community-based programs and/or services in the areas of arts and culture, community development and services, economic or workforce development and health and human services. This is the third year in a row that TPHS has received a TOT grant.
THE DONANT FAMILY FOUNDATION–$3,000. This is a local, private foundation and the third year in a row it has supported TPHS.
THE SETZER FOUNDATION–$5,000. This is also a local, private foundation and the third consecutive year it has supported TPHS. It supports a wide range of nonprofit organizations in the state of California. Preference is given to organizations in the Sacramento area.
EL DORADO SAVINGS BANK–$5,000. El Dorado Savings Bank was founded in January 1956, is based in Placerville, and has 35 branches in California and Nevada. This is the third consecutive year that El Dorado Savings has made a donation to TPHS.
THE BENETO FOUNDATION–$15,000. The Beneto Foundation is a California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation and the purposes for which it was formed are exclusively charitable. This is also the third consecutive year The Beneto Foundation has supported TPHS.
Bill and Terrie Motmans–$500.
Anonymous Private Donation–$30,000.
These are just a few examples of the families TPHS helped in 2023.
A woman, the mother of three young children, originally contacted TPHS in March. She had moved in with her parents after separating from her husband, but the home in which they were living had mold and no heat all winter so it was uninhabitable and they had to move. The woman was in a job training program. She had developed a plan to pay rent with the help of the Family Stabilization Program and also her sister was going to move in with them and pay part of the rent. It took her three months to find an apartment complex that would accept her. She had paid a $500 security deposit, but when the property management did a credit check it was not good so another $500 for a security deposit had to be paid, but she had no more funds. TPHS paid the $500 balance of the security deposit and the family moved in in June.
The mother of a 15-year-old daughter was unable to pay her August rent of $1,560 because her work hours were cut back and prices for food, gas, and utilities had increased. She had been served with a 3-day notice to pay or quit. She signed up for the energy assistance programs with SMUD and PG&E and was taking on increased work hours and looking for another job so it appeared that she would be able to pay her rent in the future. TPHS paid her August rent.
A woman who previously was treated for breast cancer had to miss work for a breast reconstruction surgery then missed more work when she developed a post-surgery infection and therefore was unable to pay her October rent and likely would be unable to pay her November rent. Her adult son who lived with her was out of work. She had been served with a 3-day notice to pay or quit. TPHS paid $1,962 for the October and November rent plus a $50 late fee totaling $2,012 so they would not be evicted. She returned to work in early November so she would be able to pay the rent in the future.