County of San Mateo Temporary Navigation Center

The opening is a key milestone in San Mateo County’s ambitious plan to move everybody living on its streets indoors

San Mateo County officials cut the ceremonial ribbon Tuesday to celebrate the dedication of the Navigation Center, which will provide 240 secure temporary living spaces for homeless individuals and couples.

Mike Callagy, the County’s chief executive, said the new Navigation Center — built with prefabricated rooms in just over one year — features amenities that include shared outdoor spaces, a dog run and individual door bells.

Redwood City – You can bring your dog, your partner and your belongings.

REDWOOD CITY, CA — Local leaders gathered Tuesday to cut the ribbon for the San Mateo Navigation Center, the nation's first multi-story pre-fabricated modular shelter, offering 240 temporary living spaces on 2.5 acres, sitting just east of Highway 101 in Redwood City. The first residents will be able to move in soon.

Redwood City, CA – You can bring your dog, your partner and your belongings.

By making San Mateo County, California’s first Navigation Center more like a home than a shelter, local officials expect people experiencing homelessness to move in as a stepping stone to permanent housing.

Nearly a year to the day after breaking ground, San Mateo County leaders gathered in Redwood City to celebrate the completion of the county’s new 240-unit navigation center, a housing complex meant to offer wraparound services to some of the area’s most vulnerable residents.

The opening is a key milestone in San Mateo County’s ambitious plan to move everybody living on its streets indoors

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (KRON) – San Mateo County is taking a new approach to help solve homelessness. The county opened its first $57 million “navigation center” on Tuesday.

“What we wanted was this to be more than a shelter, a feeling of welcoming home,” said Mike Callagy, the county chief executive.

A new, innovative navigation center for people experiencing homelessness in San Mateo County opened Tuesday, April 18, in Redwood City.

The 240-unit Navigation Center in Redwood City is slated to open later this month, launching a modern approach to providing housing and wraparound services to homeless community members.

This modular housing development features individual sleeping units, private bathrooms, shared services, and community spaces.

It’s going to look as snazzy as an upscale apartment complex, complete with manicured plazas and Bauhaus-evocative architecture, and anyone living there who wants dental work, drug rehab or job help will merely have to take a stroll down the hall.