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Supportive Housing: Innovations and Applications Jordan Press and Holly Denniston September 27th, 2011 www.csh.org
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Supportive Housing:
Innovations and
Applications
Jordan Press and Holly Denniston
September 27th, 2011
www.csh.org
Who we are
CSH helps communities
create permanent housing with services to
prevent and end homelessness.
Lending
Technical Assistance
and Advocacy
Systems Change
What is
Supportive
Housing?
Defining Supportive Housing
Supportive housing is
permanent, affordable housing
combined with
a range of supportive services
that help people with special needs
live stable and independent lives.
Housing
Permanent
Affordable
Independent
Services
Flexible
Voluntary
Essential Features
Types of Supportive
Housing Single Site
Scattered Site
Integrated
Supportive Housing is a Solution to
Multiple Policy Problems
Social
Services
Housing/
Community
Development
Health/
Hospitals
Behavioral
Health Child Welfare
Aging
Veterans
Affairs
Employment
Corrections/
Criminal
Justice
Supportive
Housing
Increases housing stability for people who are homeless
• Reduces incarceration rates for people with chronic health challenges
• Improves family functioning and decreasing child welfare involvement
• Promotes health, wellness, and access to recovery-oriented services and healthcare
The Institutional Circuit of
Homelessness and Crisis
Detox
Emergency
Residential
Program
Jail
Shelter
Psychiatric
Hospital
Emergency
Room
Integrated Supportive
Housing Model
Spectrum of Models
Single Purpose
Integrated Housing
Affordable Housing
Tenant options
Benefits of Integrated Supportive Housing
Greater Mixing of Tenant Populations
Tap large pipeline of projects
New Project Sponsors
Multi Agency Cooperation
Greater Community Acceptance
Reduced Vacancy
Challenges to Integrated Supportive
Housing
Establishing Interagency Cooperation
Defining Roles and Responsibilities of Partners
Long-Term Monitoring of Projects
Understanding PSH timeline
Financing Complexities and Reporting
Must embrace goal of housing stability
Opportunities to Promote Integrated
Housing
Housing plans
Consolidated plans
Qualified Allocation Plans
Preservation
Pilot Program
Examples of
Integrated Supportive
Housing
Example 1: Michigan’s Threshold
Requirement
As of 2009, all projects with allocated tax credits (excluding elderly projects and projects using tax-exempt bond financing)
will be required to target ten percent of the total units to Supportive Housing Tenants.
All projects applying for tax credits, including preservation projects with expiring tax credits, must reserve 10% of units for supportive
housing.
Operating subsidies provided via project based housing choice vouchers.
Example 2: The Boyle Hotel, Los
Angeles, CA
A 51 unit historic rehab developed by East Los Angeles Community Corporation
(ELACC).
ELACC agreed to set aside 5 units for transition age youth in order to access the Supportive
Housing Recovery Fund dollars.
Example 3: Clinton Hills, Newark, NJ
HELP USA is constructing a 56-unit integrated supportive housing project with a set-aside of 15 units of permanent supportive housing units for
veterans
Project is located on an abandoned lot turning an eyesore and source of crime into a community asset
The new building will be LEED Gold certified and includes a rooftop vegetable garden
HELP USA is using capital financing from, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, NSP through Make It Right, project based vouchers and other sources
Thank you!
Jordan Press
Holly Denniston
