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Housing

Housing and Supported Housing Programs

Program Description

The Housing Programs Unit provides administrative oversight to organizations throughout New York State that provide a continuum of housing and supportive housing services to homeless or inappropriately housed individuals with HIV/AIDS and their families. The overall goal of the Housing Initiative is to ensure a flexible continuum of care that empowers individuals and families to live as independently as possible and to avoid homelessness.

Findings from a 2004 comprehensive statewide housing needs assessment of persons with HIV/AIDS helped guide the direction of State and federal housing dollars through a competitive solicitation. This solicitation resulted in awards to 24 housing providers funded to meet the continuum of housing and supportive housing needs of this population.

• Enhanced Supportive Housing Services address the housing needs of special and underserved populations including those who are at risk of losing housing or who are significantly challenged to remain in housing. Funding is intended to assist clients to obtain and maintain stable housing, support the greatest possible level of consumer independence and improve access to and participation in a full continuum of care services. Funded services include independent living skills development; mental health support services; non-intensive case management; nutrition services/meals; structured socialization and recreational services; substance abuse support services; supported housing coordination; transportation services; and vocational education. Eighteen (18) housing providers are funded to deliver these services statewide.
• Housing Placement Assistance and Referral Services are provided by agencies that serve as centralized points of contact in designated regions outside New York City. Funds support the staffing of a full or part time HIV/AIDS housing specialist to provide these services within multiple counties or a designated region. Housing placement assistance and referral services are intended to improve coordination and timeliness of housing placement services; locate and place clients in appropriate, permanent housing; and promote clients' housing retention and stability. Funding also supports essential items such as household start-up kits. Seven (7) housing providers serving Long Island and Upstate New York are funded to deliver these services.
• Financial Assistance provides one-time only emergency assistance (broker's fee, moving expense, security deposit, rent, utility, minor renovation) and short-term rental and utility assistance (up to 24 months) to persons with HIV/AIDS, outside New York City. Financial assistance helps consumers obtain and maintain safe, appropriate and affordable housing and to prevent eviction and utility shut off. This type of assistance promotes housing retention and stability, augments housing placement assistance and referral services by enabling consumers and their families to relocate to more appropriate housing if necessary, and promotes access to medical care. Funds are used as dollars of last resort. Nine (9) housing providers are funded to deliver financial assistance in Long Island and Upstate New York.
• Operational Support in AIDS Housing (OSAH) funding is transferred to the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance to provide operational support to housing providers who received Homeless Housing Assistance Program (HHAP) funding to establish a continuum of residential options for previously homeless persons with HIV/AIDS and their families. Funds are also used to provide residents with necessary support services for which funding is not otherwise available.

Funding

The Housing Programs Unit of the AIDS Institute works in conjunction with a number of State agencies and housing providers to ensure that funded services augment other HIV-related programs and housing initiatives. The program receives $3,850,000 in combined State and federal funds for these services.

Contact:

Chronic Care Section
Bureau of HIV Program Review and Systems Development
Division of HIV Health Care
(518) 474-8162