Housing Support For Families Need

Our Housing Services

We provide housing solutions and services to vulnerable persons and families such as survivors of domestic violence, human trafficking, homelessness, and other abuses. Our aim is to assist the people in settling into permanent living arrangements, settling their lives, and feeling a sense of safety again.

Emergency Housing for Crisis Situations

We provide immediate, safe refuge for individuals and families in crisis.

Transitional Housing Programs

Our transitional housing offers temporary refuge and support to facilitate individuals’ return to stability.

Affordable Housing Placement

We help individuals locate safe, affordable housing to provide long-term stability.

Rental Assistance and Eviction Prevention

We offer financial aid to prevent eviction and facilitate individuals’ ability to sustain stable housing.

Housing Counseling and Support

We provide professional assistance to guide individuals through housing choices and achieve long-term stability.

Legal Advocacy and Protection

We offer legal assistance to safeguard tenants’ rights and resolve legal matters related to housing.

Housing as a strategy to end homelessness

When it comes to housing our goals are:

To quickly identify and engage the people at risk of experiencing homelessness.
Intervene to prevent people from entering the housing crisis response system.
Provide stable housing without barriers to entry.
Quickly connect people to receive housing assistance and services unique for their needs.

Permanent supportive housing

Our first response to bringing homelessness to an end is by providing housing first. This is a means for victims, veterans and their families to quickly exit homelessness and return to permanent housing.In providing assistance our priorities are;

Chronically homeless individuals with the longest history of homelessness and with the most severe needs.

Chronically homeless individuals and their families with the longest history of homelessness.

Chronically homeless individuals and families with the most severe needs.

All other chronically homeless individuals and families.

Working with Landlords to rapidly house victims

Housing search has become a specialization within the homeless services field. Increasing access for homeless individuals to existing stock is essential to ending homelessness. Rental housing is a dollars and cents business. Landlords and management companies are in the business of reducing risk and maximizing return on investment. Accordingly, rapid housing providers need to adopt a business oriented or market driven approach to recruiting and engaging property owners and management companies.

We offer our guarantee to mom and pop landlords, large private landlords, property management companies, nonprofit housing developers, etc that we will meet their needs and address their concerns. Owners are concerned that the rent will be paid on time, they have someone to call, their property is not damaged and there is no nuisance taking place.

We source for landlords willing to do section 8 and/or other subsidies.

Working with Local housing Authorities

PHAs maintain lists of property owners willing to accept section 8. It is likely that some, if not many of these owners would be open to renting to homeless households without section 8.

Guiding questions for coordinated access to housing

What housing barriers does this family possess?

What are the family’s housing options, given the resources we possess and those we can access elsewhere?

How should we target the housing search, given the family’s situation ( geography, neighborhood type, etc.)?

What advocacy tools or landlord incentives could we use to assist this family?

Ways we maintain good relationships with landlords

We think of the landlord as sort of “client” whose needs and goals need to be met

Follow-ups with property owners or agents.
Responding in a timely manner to landlord requests for assistance.
Intervening when appropriate.
Dealing directly and honestly with property owners to address problems and concerns.
Ensure committed home visits and case management occurs.
Keep open lines of communication, and create protocols to facilitate dialogue.

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Collaborate with landlords to provide safe, stable housing for vulnerable victims.

Experienced Property Managers

“Trusted and experienced property managers dedicated to optimizing your property’s value and performance.”