Welcome to Hospitality House
Hospitality House was founded in 1967, when the Tenderloin was experiencing an influx of LGBT youth flocking to one of America’s first epicenters for the burgeoning queer liberation movement: San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. Despite the positive legacy created by this movement, more than 3,000 of these youth found themselves living on the streets. Most of them survived by participating in the vice traffic in the low-income Tenderloin district. Concerned residents in the Tenderloin partnered with this struggling population to form Hospitality House, initially a simple drop-in space offering food and activities to help homeless youth take an intermission from another night on the street. By 1985, Hospitality House had developed into the multiple-program agency it is today. The agency has shifted its demographic focus to meet changing needs of the community, transitioning from youth in the Tenderloin to now serving predominantly adult residents of San Francisco’s Tenderloin, Sixth Street Corridor, and Mid-Market neighborhoods struggling with homelessness, poverty, and the range of other socioeconomic issues facing residents here.
Hospitality House Happenings
SAVE-THE-DATE!
Hospitality House's 34th Annual Art Auction is on May 9, 2019 so mark your calendars as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of our Community Arts Program at a brand new venue. With the support of a special anonymous donor, our next Annual Art Auction will be taking place at the fabulous Midway galleries. Find out more here and don't miss out on our sponsorship opportunities! |
PBS News Hour Spotlights Hospitality House
Watch our very own Executive Director Joe Wilson featured on the PBS News Hour's "Brief But Spectacular" segment as he shares his incredible journey from homelessness to leading the agency that once provided him shelter. Since its release in late July 2018, the video has been shared by thousands. Watch the brief video here (Duration 3:44 minutes) |
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