Season of Sharing Alameda County provides housing assistance and critical families needs assistance to eligible households in Alameda County who demonstrate a critical need arising from emergency circumstances beyond their control. 

• Housing Assistance

  • Security deposit for permanent housing

  • Delinquent rent or mortgage

• Critical Families Needs Assistance

  • Utilities (electricity, gas, or water) under threat of shut-off or already shut off at current residence

  • Limited furniture items under specific circumstances including fire/catastrophe, extended homelessness, and domestic violence.  

  • Limited medical equipment and mobility aids (deemed medically necessary and not otherwise covered by insurance).

CalWORKs participants may be eligible to obtain assistance with permanent and temporary housing, help with moving costs, eviction prevention, and case management. To see if you are eligible, click on each program's button: 

• CalWORKs Temporary Homeless Assistance

• CalWORKs Permanent Homeless Assistance

• CalWORKs Housing Support Program

• Family Stabilization Program

PHONE NUMBERS/LOCATIONS

• North Oakland Self-Sufficiency Center: (510) 891-0700

• Eastmont Self-Sufficiency Center: (510) 577-7067

• South County (includes Eden Area Multi-Service Center, Fremont Office, Livermore Self-Sufficiency Center): (510) 670-6225

• Enterprise Self-Sufficiency Center: (510) 639-1090

The City of Fremont's "Keep Fremont Housed" program can provide assistance for unpaid rent and utilities dating back as far as April 1, 2020, the date of the federal COVID-19 emergency declaration. Applicants may apply for rental assistance, utility assistance, or both.

ELIGIBILITY: Must be a Fremont resident. Must have a household income at or below 80% Area Median Income (AMI). One or more individuals within the household has qualified for unemployment benefits or experienced a reduction in household income, incurred significant costs, or experienced other financial hardship due, directly or indirectly, to the COVID-19 pandemic. One or more individuals within the household can demonstrate a risk of experiencing homelessness or housing instability

PHONE NUMBER: (510) 284-4000

The Fremont Fair Housing & Landlord Tenant agency provides landlords and tenants with confidential counseling for all rental housing questions, including security deposits, repairs, termination of tenancy, evictions, privacy, right to entry, retaliation, and rent increases. The program also provides confidential counseling and investigation of housing discrimination complaints, referrals for legal assistance, and community education on fair housing laws.

HOURS OF OPERATION

Monday-Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

ADDRESS

39155 Liberty Street, Suite D440

Fremont, CA 94538

PHONE: (510) 574-2270

EMAIL ADDRESS: fremont@housing.org

40849 Fremont Blvd. 

Fremont, CA 94538 

PHONE: (510) 657-7409