About Us

The Interfaith Shelter Network (ISN) of San Diego is a grassroots non-profit 501(c)(3) organization formed in 1986 to coordinate the efforts of local congregations, government programs, and social service agencies to provide emergency shelter for San Diego's situationally unhoused population, and to provide shelter guests with the tools and services needed to secure more permanent housing.

In 1995, ISN added a transitional shelter program for families, which later evolved into the El Nido (The Nest) Transitional Living program, an 11-unit apartment complex for unsheltered battered women with children.