Supportive Housing:
What is supportive housing?

Supportive housing is a successful, cost-effective combination of affordable housing with services that helps people live more stable, productive lives. Supportive housing works well for people who face the most complex challenges—individuals and families who are not only homeless, but who also have very low incomes and serious, persistent issues that may include substance use, mental illness, and HIV/AIDS. Read the Corporation for Supportive Housing’s definition of supportive_housing.

No one wants to be homeless. Supportive housing offers people a way out of a situation that no one wants to be in: having no stable place to live. In supportive housing, people can live with stability, autonomy, and dignity.

Key facts about supportive housing and homelessness:

Supportive housing helps people live more stable and productive lives. Supportive housing is proven to help people who are persistently homeless find stability in a home of their own. Supportive housing's combination of permanent, affordable housing and available services works well for people who face the most complex challenges-people who are not only homeless, but who also have very low incomes and serious, persistent issues that may include substance use, mental illness, and HIV/AIDS.
Supportive housing is permanent. People who live in supportive housing sign leases and pay rent, just like their neighbors. Supportive housing and shelters provide different levels of services for different types of individualsr. Shelters work well for what they're designed for -- emergencies and short-term situation -- but are not a feasible or effective option for long-term housing.
Supportive housing is cost-effective. It costs essentially the same amount of money to house someone in stable, supportive housing as it does to keep that person homeless and stuck in the revolving door of high-cost crisis care and emergency housing. CSH's cost studies prove that we can either waste money keeping people homeless or spend those dollars on a long-term solution that produces positive results for people and their communities.

For additional information, please visit the Corporation for Supportive Housing.

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