The Good News Rescue Mission has a number of projects in motion to keep bringing the Good News to the poor, homeless, or needy in Shasta County. These projects below are a glimpse into the many ways we are providing emergency, long-term, and equipping services to those in our community.

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Caretaker’s Quarters (Accessory Dwelling Unit)

The Mission purchased a 600 sf, 1-bedroom, 1-bath home with a small office. This will likely be the home of an employee with lived experience who will be the “Caretaker” of one of the Mission’s emergency shelter facilities. The unit was built by US-Offsite and inspected by the State of California during construction. This unit will be housed on the Mission’s campus at the old community garden plot on the corner of Grange and Veda Street.

Completion Date: September 2025

Update: We have chosen tenants to move into the ADU. They will be moving into the unit in December, 2025.

Day Resource Center & Adult Rehab Center

For years, Shasta County and the City of Redding have expressed a desire to have a community resource center for the homeless and those experiencing hardship in the region. The dream was to have a single-point of entry for all critical services available city-wide, cutting through the “red tape”, and helping guests navigate more easily to the help they need. Those services might include, but not be limited to: housing vouchers, meals, computer lab, showers, storage, documents, DMV, coffee shop, bike repair, dog run, AA meetings, medical, and mental health services.

With the help of the At Home group of agencies and elected leaders from the County and City, the Mission was awarded funding to purchase an existing warehouse off Veda Street for $875,000 and use the remaining $2,125,000 for architecture, engineering, grading, exterior, and interior construction of the facility.

Once re-developed, the Mission will operate the facility and work together with a collection of partner agencies, non-profits, and government entities to provide the services.

Grant Funding: $3,000,000 from the Encampment Resolution Funding (ERF) Program through the City of Redding. The funding will go toward the purchase and remodel of 3145 Veda Street, an 8,000 sf existing warehouse.

Estimated Completion Date: April 2026

Update: The framers are approximately 65% complete with their scope of work on the Day Resource Center building. This gets us closer to closing in the building for winter. Civil plans have been approved, allowing site work to continue. Awning footing excavations are complete, and the site is prepared for the next phase of the awning installation. Regarding the Adult Rehabilitation Center, we are currently in the pre-construction phase, working to solidify the design for the building.

 

Remodel Projects

The Mission is remodeling and expanding the bathrooms in the Dining Hall and installing new roofs on a few buildings.

Grant Funding: $500,000 from the Encampment Resolution Funding (ERF) Program through the City of Redding.

Competitive grant program available to assist local jurisdictions in providing services and supports to people experiencing homelessness in encampments that result in meaningful paths to safe and stable housing. Eligible applicants include counties, Continuums of Care (CoCs), and cities of any size. – HCD.ca.gov

Update: This remodel project was completed in November 2025, and the roofs on the Administrative Building and Bridge Building were replaced. The bathrooms in the Dining Hall for the men and women are now more spacious and will function more efficiently for all of our guests who use them.

 

Micro-Shelters at Veda Street Village

Veda Street Village is a 17-unit micro-shelter village that will provide transitional non-congregate shelter to help men and women move off the streets and take the next step towards finding permanent housing. Our micro-shelter village will have two types of shelters. Eight Pallet shelters that will be assembled on-site when the construction crews are ready, and nine wooden shelters built off-site that will be delivered and hooked up. The village is conveniently located on the Mission Campus, which allows us to utilize many of the resources already available, such as daily hot meals, showers, a day resource center, a health clinic, and a strong volunteer community.

Through a grant from the City of Redding and donations from lead supporters, we’ve raised enough funding to start the construction. In order to finish the project and operate it to full capacity, we need additional funding. Please click here to make a donation today and support this life-changing project.

Grant Funding: $100,000 Encampment Resolution Funding (ERF) Program through the City of Redding. The Mission is providing more than 50% of the project budget toward this project from donor funds raised in December 2023. The Total Project Budget is estimated at $220,000.

Estimated Completion Date: February 2025

Update: As of December, 2025, the Veda Street Village—our micro shelter community of 17, 64-square-foot transitional units—continues to thrive. With support from local churches, residents regularly enjoy BBQs, Movie Nights, and other community-building activities. So far, we have successfully transitioned four tenants into permanent housing: one has moved into a studio apartment, another secured a HUD-voucher unit, a third is finalizing utilities and furnishings for her new home, and the fourth is awaiting the final cleaning of their apartment before moving in. The community continues to enjoy social gatherings like a Cocoa Bar Christmas Movie Night, BBQs, and Soup Nights.

 

Temporary Day Center

As a part of the Housing and Homelessness Incentive Program (HHIP) funding, the City of Redding awarded the Mission to offer a Temporary Day Center at the current Dining Hall while the permanent Day Resource Center is being remodeled at 3145 Veda Street. This program has averaged 100 people in daily average attendance and 75 new, unduplicated entries into HMIS. The Mission is offering cooling, warming, meals, classes and other activities to guests of the Day Center.

Grant Funding: $157,000 awarded to be applied toward wages of Mission staff at the Temporary Day Center.

 

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