BRINGING HOME TO HOMELESS
HOLY CITY
TREKS
Mission
Our Mission Is To Energize People and Energize Assets
Values
1. Creating the Best Designed Home on the Street
2. Paying Living Wages and Benefits To All Staff
3. Implementing a Home Arts Training Program
4. Zero Bed Bug Tolerance
5. Ensure Our Clients Never Become Homeless Again
"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring"
-Martin Luther King Jr.
How MAY WE
Help You?
Our Mission Is To Help Energize Organizations,
People, And Assets To Create Communities Of Homes With A Lifetime Of Support
Architectural Design/ Historical Preservation
The goal is to renovate homes to be the best looking on the street by bringing architectural interior + landscape design to ever home. This will create non-toxic + healthy home environmentals
Grants
A team of grant writers available to prepare grant submissions to raise funds to support your passions
Human Resources
Designing strong compensation + benefits packages for all employees
Assessing + interviewing potential candidates
Basic life skill building to improve client service + supervisory + management development
Strategic Planning
Planning for the next 3 years of economic sustainability
Project Management
Assist, coordinate architects, engineers, designers, + contractors for on time + under/on budget completion. This will help financial sustainability
Consulting
Establishing best practices, paying lving wages with benefits, + provide a smooth transition from operator to operator
Governance
Establishing board oversight and committee support structure
Development
Energizing your home + property to help others in need
Finance + Accounting
Run economically sustainable projects + establish operating + contingency reserve
the council of economic advisers
The State of Homelessness in America
Report of 2019
Click on PDF file below for
more findings from the report
The trend of homelessness across communities
Inadequate
Distribution
+ Pricing
of Housing
has increased
The Working Poor
Makes $10/hr With
No Benefits
Inadequate
Distribution
+ Pricing
of Housing
has increased
Working Poor
Extremely Poor
Alcohol
+
Substance Abuse
History of
Incarcernation
Weak
Family
Connections + Trauma
THERE ARE OVER 10,000
HOMELESS IN CHARLESTON...
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There were 3,660 evictions in North Charleston in 2016 (That amounts to 10.03 households evicted every day)
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16.5 in 100 renter homes are evicted each year.
North Charleston, SC Is #1 In The United States For Highest Eviction Rates :
Holy City Trek's Strategic Plan:
Veteran Housing
Additional Dwelling Homes
Faith Based Organizations
Hospitals
Alternate Dwelling Homes
Farms
Garages
Community Partners
We Currently Have Over 15 Projects and Community Partnerships!