Emergency Housing Services

Where to Turn Emergency Housing Services

Online version updated on October 28, 2024.

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For more food, health, and human services in the Philadelphia region visit 211sepa.org, call 2‐1‐1 or 866‐964‐7922, or text 898‐211.

To register complaints about shelter, transitional and permanent housing, and rapid rehousing, please contact the Office of Homeless Services Participant Comment Line at 215‐686‐4700 or ohs‐[email protected].


For Permanent Shelter

Apple Tree Family Center
1430 Cherry Street
Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Roosevelt Darby Center
804 N. Broad Street
Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Veteran’s Center
213-217 N. 4th Street
Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

After-hours Emergency Shelter

Single Women Only Emergency Housing After‐Hours Services (OHS) 
Gaudenzia’s House of Passage, Kirkbride Center
48th Street and Haverford Avenue (48th Street side entrance)
Daily after 5 p.m.

Single Men Only Emergency Housing After-Hours Services (OHS)
Mike Hinson Resource Center 
1701 W. Lehigh Avenue 
Daily after 3 p.m.

Couples Emergency Housing
Navigation Center
427 N. 63rd Street 
Daily after 7 p.m.       

With Children
Red Shield
715 N. Broad Street 
Daily after 5 p.m.

None of us are home until all of us are home®