Supportive Housing

Publication Date: 1999

Supportive housing-–permanent, affordable housing linked to services-–provides low-income, disabled and formerly homeless people the help and support they need to stay housed and live more independent, healthy and fulfilling lives. Supportive housing is the single most effective, and most cost-efficient, way to reduce homelessness. It strengthens communities and helps integrate people with disabilities and other special needs into the life...

Tags: supportive housing; housing; community planning and organizing

Corporation for Supportive Housing, Supportive Housing Financing Guide

Publication Date: 2005

This Web-based guide provides details on all major Federal supportive housing financing sources, including program descriptions and links to the regulations, resources on everything from how to use Medicaid in supportive housing to understanding Low Income Housing Tax Credits, links to current funding opportunities, and details on relevant State programs.

Tags: supportive housing; funding

Developing the "Support" in Supportive Housing

Authors: Hannigan, Tony; Wagner, Suzanne

Publication Date: 2003

Providing supportive services in people’s homes is uniquely different from delivering other communitybased services. For many individuals who have been homeless and/or who have special needs or disabilities,affordable housing combined with supportive services has proven to be the link to stability and an enhanced quality of life. Developing the “Support” in Supportive Housing provides information about shaping and delivering services to meet the pa...

Tags: supportive housing; services

Supportive Housing Financing Guide

Authors: Corporation for Suportive Housing (CSH)

Publication Date: 2009

This guide provides information about federal funding streams to assist in the development and maintenance of supportive housing programs.

Tags: guide; supportive housing; funding

Providing Services in Supportive Housing

Authors: Proscio, Tony

Publication Date: 2000

This is the second of three related guides for those interested in forming local consortia to develop supportive housing projects. This booklet is obviously not intended to teach organizations how to be service providers, or even to lay out a “model” services program for supportive housing. Instead, we hope this guide will set out for Supportive Housing Consortia the necessary building-blocks for designing and organizing services in their developme...

Tags: housing; supportive housing

Developing and Managing Supportive Housing

Authors: Proscio, Tony

Publication Date: 2000

This is the third of three related guides for those interested in forming Supportive Housing Consortia and developing projects. This booklet is obviously not intended to teach organizations how to be housing developers, or even to lay out a “model” development plan for supportive housing. Instead, we hope this guide will set out for Supportive Housing Consortia the necessary building-blocks for designing, financing, building, and managing...

Tags: housing; supportive housing; community planning and organizing

Supportive Housing Training Series

Publication Date: 2003

The Supportive Housing Training Series includes eleven curricula providing best practices and guidance on supportive housing development, operation and services. Each curriculum provides a one-day training for enriching the skills of supportive housing developers and providers.

Tags: supportive housing; housing

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Supportive Housing with Empathy

Authors: Evans, Wendy Grace

Publication Date: 2012

Jaime Ebaugh of Southwest Counseling Solutions in Detroit, Michigan discusses Piquette Square, which offers permanent supportive housing to veterans experiencing homelessness. The organization uses a combination of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), PATH outreach, and referrals, and a unique approach to alternative healing modalities that impact mind, body, and spirit.

Tags: feature; supportive housing; Assertive Community Treatment; PATH; alternative healing; recovery

Corporation for Supportive Housing

Publication Date: 2006

The Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) is a national, nonprofit organization that helps communities create permanent housing with services to prevent and end homelessness. CSH advances its mission by providing high-quality advice and development expertise, by making loans and grants to supportive housing sponsors, by strengthening the supportive housing industry, and by reforming public policy to make it easier to create and operate...

Tags: housing; advocacy and policy; supportive housing; organizations

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The Family Permanent Supportive Housing Initiative: Family History and Experiences in Supportive Housing

Authors: Nolan, Clare; Broeke, Cathy; Magee, Michelle; Burt, Martha R.

Organization: The Urban Institute

Publication Date: 2004

This report assists the Charles Schwab Foundation in understanding the impact of its innovative approach to meeting the long-term needs of formerly homeless families in permanent supportive housing. This report presents baseline findings from initial interviews with sixty families that were conducted between November 2003 and January 2004, as well as descriptions of four Family Permanent Supportive Housing (FPSH) sites included in the study sample. The authors asse...

Tags: housing; families; supportive housing

Forming an Effective Supportive Housing Consortium

Authors: Proscio, Tony

Publication Date: 2000

This is the first of three related guides for those interested in forming Supportive Housing Consortia and developing projects. In this guidebook, we discuss the formation and management of the Supportive Housing Consortium: who should participate, what the agenda should include, and, in general, how to seize opportunities and avoid problems that emerged in the initial few years of the demonstration program. (Author)

Tags: housing; supportive housing

Toolkit for developing and operating supportive housing

Publication Date: 2006

The purpose of this toolkit is to provide organizations with access to tools, informational materials, and sample documents that can help them address key challenges in the planning, development, and ongoing operation of permanent supportive housing projects. More than 150 tools pertaining to understanding supportive housing, development and finance, housing operations, and supportive services are included.

Tags: supportive housing; organizational development

Paula - Now Living in Supportive Housing

This interview was done in 2008 bring to life the findings from the 2002-2005 Panel Study on Homelessness in Ottawa.

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Supportive Housing & Homeless Programs (SHHP)

SHHP is a statewide housing agency that operates within the Colorado Department of Human Services, Office of Behavioral Health and Housing. SHHP’s rental assistance programs are available in all 64 counties in Colorado. SHHP partners with more than 60 private nonprofit agencies to provide housing options for Colorado citizens with special needs. The rental assistance programs provide a subsidy for extremely low- and very low-income families—the elderly, the homeless, and p...

Tags: homelessness; supportive housing; funding; older clients; people with disabilities

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Recommendations for Designing High Quality Permanent Supportive Housing

Authors: Corporation for Supportive Housing

Organization: Corporation for Supportive Housing

Publication Date: 2009

The report prepared by CSH is meant to serve as an introductory reference guide for anyone with an interest in the design of supportive housing projects, most especially for designers and developers of permanent supportive housing. (Authors).

Tags: supportive housing

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Yukon group seeks support for supportive housing

Publication Date: 2011

A Whitehorse housing coalition says it hopes to garner enough public and government support to establish supportive housing for the city's homeless. The Northern City Housing Coalition has secured early support from Whitehorse city council for its proposal to build an apartment building that would house up to 20 homeless people and provide 24-hour care for those tenants. Members of the coalition have spent the past few weeks circulating...

Tags: supportive housing ; housing coalition ; apartment

Housing Youth: Key Issues in Supportive Housing

Authors: Durham, Kate

Organization: Corporation for Supportive Housing

Publication Date: 2003

This guide is a brief overview designed as a tool for service providers, housing developers and managers, public and private funders, and other stakeholders interested in supportive housing for youth and young adults. While youth supportive housing can benefit tremendously from best practices and lessons learned in adult and family supportive housing, there are some points of differentiation worth noting. This tool aims to stimulate think...

Tags: housing; youth; supportive housing

Supportive Housing Property Management Operations Manual

Organization: Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH)

Publication Date: 2003

This manual reflects the best practices many supportive housing providers use to manage and operate quality affordable housing with on-site or accessible supportive services available to tenants with special needs. One best practice is to include the housing owner’s mission statement in the property management operations manual. The supportive housing owner’s mission statement usually defines the goals, objectives and outcomes the hous...

Tags: housing; supportive housing; advocacy and policy

Toolkit for Connecting Supportive Housing Tenants to Employment

Publication Date: 2008

The purpose of this toolkit is to provide access to tools, case studies, evaluations, sample documents, and other useful resources for connecting supportive housing tenants to employment. The goal of this resource is to help supportive housing organizations, workforce partners, and employers address key challenges in the planning, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of employment-related services and programs.

Tags: supportive housing; employment

Supportive Housing Program (SHP) Desk Guide

Publication Date: 2008

The SHP Desk Guide was designed to help homeless assistance program staff administering McKinney-Vento grants awarded through SHP. SHP is a Federal grant program authorized by the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 USC 11381-11389). SHP is designed to promote the development of housing and supportive services to assist homeless persons in the transition from the streets and shelters to permanent housing and self-sufficiency. The guide provides information, key resou...

Tags: supportive housing; housing; homeless