Housing Services - Homelessness Prevention, Supportive Housing and Social Services

1.Bailey House, Inc.: Bailey House provides housing and comprehensive services to people living with HIV/AIDS. All of Bailey House’s residential clients are referred to Bailey House through the New York City HIV/AIDS Service Administration (HASA).
 www.baileyhouse.org
2. Brooklyn Community Housing and Services, Inc.: Brooklyn Community Housing and Services (BCHS) provides housing and supportive social services to New York City's formerly homeless population. BCHS is a multi-program agency, offering transitional and permanent housing to over 300 residents, as well as mental health support services.
www.bchands.org
3.Center for Urban Community Services: The Center for Urban Community Services (CUCS) provides comprehensive, effective housing and service programs for homeless and low-income people, particularly those suffering from serious mental illness, HIV/AIDS, and other disabling conditions. CUCS also works to improve public policy affecting the homeless and dispossessed. CUCS currently sponsors seven supportive housing facilities, two transitional living communities, an outreach program and drop-in center, a job training and employment program, and a training, consultation, and housing information services department.
www.cucs.org
4. Coalition for the Homeless: Coalition for the Homeless is an advocacy and direct service organization helping homeless men, women, and children. Its Rental Assistance Program helps single adults and families who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless bridge the gap between their incomes and the cost of affordable apartments, by providing temporary monthly rental stipends. The Coalition also manages housing programs that provide permanent housing and support services to women, men and families, including the Scattered Site Housing Program, which provides supportive housing to homeless individuals and families living with HIV/AIDS.
www.coalitionforthehomeless.org
5. Common Ground Community:  Common Ground Community is a non-profit housing and community development organization whose mission is to solve homelessness. Common Ground provides comprehensive support services, including access to medical and mental health care and job training and placement, designed to help people regain lives of stability and independence.
www.commonground.org
6. Community Access: Community Access is a not-for-profit agency that helps people with psychiatric disabilities make the transition from shelters and hospitals to independent living. Community Access provides safe, affordable housing and support services.
www.communityaccess.org
7.Community Service Society of New York: The Community Service Society of New York is an independent, nonprofit organization that for more than 150 years has helped New Yorkers in need to defeat the problems of poverty and strengthen community life for all. Programs include the Tenant Advocacy Project, a new venture to address New York’s affordable housing crisis, with the specific objectives of helping more people benefit from available federal housing programs, resolving tenant problems, and preventing eviction and homelessness.
www.cssny.org
8.Cooper Square Committee: The Cooper Square Committee provides free housing services to area residents, including eviction prevention counseling, housing organizing assistance, tenant issues advice, and assistance in applying for New York City low- and moderate-income housing programs.
www.coopersquare.org
9.Corporation for Supportive Housing: Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) is a national organization that helps communities create permanent housing with services to prevent and end homelessness. CSH works towards its goal of making supportive housing understood, available, and effective 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 supportive housing.
www.csh.org
10. The Doe Fund: The Doe Fund is a New York based non-profit organization whose mission is to help formerly homeless men achieve lives of independence and self-sufficiency. The Doe Fund provides transitional and permanent housing opportunities through a variety of programs including the Scatter Site Housing Program, A Better Place, and the Peter Jay Sharp Residence.
www.doe.org
11. DOROT: DOROT is a not-for-profit, multi-service agency that provides support to homebound and homeless elders. DOROT's Homelessness Prevention Program provides homeless elders with transitional housing in a friendly and supportive environment. Residents receive assistance in obtaining benefits and entitlements and in relocating to affordable, permanent housing. Residents also receive life skills training and counseling aimed at maintaining a stable existence following a return to the community.
www.dorotusa.org
12. Eviction Intervention Services: Eviction Intervention Services prevents homelessness by keeping residents in their communities, preserving existing affordable housing, and promoting and supporting the construction of affordable housing for low income families. Programs and services include legal aid/elder advocacy, legal clinics with housing attorneys, tenant workshop trainings, and social services assistance
www.eisny.org
13. Forest Hills Community House: The Forest Hills Community House is a settlement house founded to assist, strengthen, and help improve the quality of life of individuals, families, and communities. The Forest Hills Community House works in fourteen program areas, including housing and homelessness prevention. This program provides assistance to tenants and property owners with housing-related problems, conducts educational workshops, and assists tenants facing eviction.
 www.fhch.org/housing.htm
14. Friends House in Rosehill:  Friends House in Rosehill is a Quaker-sponsored, supportive residence for people living with AIDS. Friends House in Rosehill provides its residents with cost-effective, affordable and permanent housing and with support services, including meals, nutritional counseling, clinical supervision, individual case management, substance abuse counseling, and home health care.
www.rosehill.org
15. Goddard-Riverside Community Center: Goddard Riverside Community Center is one of New York City’s leading human service organizations, with 22 programs at 16 sites on the Upper West Side and in West Harlem. Program areas include: children, youth and families; homeless people; older adults; and advocacy and tenant assistance. Goddard Riverside also develops and manages affordable housing, and provides social services to homeless people, with a focus on adults with severe and persistent mental illness, including mentally ill chemically addicted individuals.
www.goddard.org
16. HANAC Inc.: HANAC Inc., is a non-profit multi-funded, citywide organization that services local community residents. Through Northwest Queens Housing, it provides tenant assistance, housing rehabilitation and development, and homeownership counseling. The Archbishop Iakovos Senior Residence provides supportive housing for seniors.
www.hanac.org
17. HELP USA: HELP USA is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to help those who are homeless and others in need become and remain self-reliant. HELP USA is the nation's largest non-profit builder, developer and operator of transitional housing with comprehensive, on-site human services for the homeless and low-income individuals. HELP USA operates fourteen housing facilities in the New York metropolitan area.
www.helpusa.org
18. Housing Conservation Coordinators, Inc.: Housing Conservation Coordinators is a tax-exempt not-for-profit organization based in the Hell's Kitchen/Clinton neighborhood of Manhattan, focused on preserving safe, decent, and affordable housing. Services include legal representation in Housing Court, organizing tenants to improve living conditions, installing energy efficient systems, and teaching training courses.
www.hcc-nyc.org
19. Housing Options and Geriatric Association Resources, Inc.: Housing Options and Geriatric Association Resources (H.O.G.A.R.) was incorporated to assist the elderly, seriously mentally ill adults, the homeless, people living with ADIS and the physically challenged by promoting and providing quality housing and services in a rehabilitative environment. The organization’s goal is to restore an individual’s ability for independent living.
www.hogar-inc.org
20. Housing Works, Inc.: Housing Works is a minority-controlled, community-based, not-for-profit corporation providing housing, health care, advocacy, job training, and vital supportive services to homeless New Yorkers living with HIV and AIDS. Its mission is to reach the most vulnerable and under served among those affected by the AIDS epidemic in New York City and provide them with a comprehensive range of services designed to help them gain stability, independence, and dignity, and improve their overall health. Housing Works has housed over 2,500 individuals and provided one-time or ongoing services for an additional 5,000.
www.housingworks.org
21. Margert Community Corporation: Margert Community Corporation is a nonprofit, community-based housing organization that provides assistance to low- and moderate-income tenants and homeowners, the elderly, and persons with disabilities. Programs include affordable housing development, tenant and homeowner counseling, and homebuyer education.
www.margert.org
22. Metropolitan Council on Housing: Metropolitan Council on Housing (Met Council) is a city-wide membership tenant organization. Met Council's monthly newspaper, Tenant/Inquilino, covers issues of interest to tenants. Met Council also provides telephone advice to tenants.
 www.tenant.net/Tengroup/Metcounc/index.html
23. Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty: Met Council represents and coordinates the efforts of grass roots Jewish Community Councils and citywide and national Jewish organizations. It advocates for the needs of poor Jews, mainly the isolated Jewish poor and elderly, and increasing public recognition of the extent and nature of poverty among Jews through legislative and social advocacy. Met Council is dedicated to the alleviation of social, economic, housing, and related problems of the Jewish poor, working poor, elderly and recent immigrants in the New York City area, Met Council delivers needed services to thousands every day.
metcouncil.net
24. Nazareth Housing: Nazareth Housing serves homeless families and those at risk of homelessness by providing temporary shelter and support services. Nazareth helps families to find or keep permanent housing and to establish economic independence.
www.nazarethhousing.com
25. Neighborhood Initiatives Development Corporation: Neighborhood Initiatives Development Corporation (NIDC) is a nonprofit organization serving the residents, property owners and businesses of Community Board 11 in the northeast Bronx. Its programs include housing preservation and stabilization efforts, crime prevention initiatives, commercial revitalization activities, and education and job training. NIDC works with both tenants and building owners to address a broad variety of housing issues. Its programs include tenant counseling services, assistance and representation in Housing Court cases, tenants’ rights education, and building owner information and assistance.
 www.nidcny.org
26. Neighbors Helping Neighbors: Neighbors Helping Neighbors Inc. (NHN) is a Sunset Park-based organization serving tenants, homebuyers, and owners of small properties and small businesses. NHN's mission is to enable low- and moderate-income people to build assets for their families and Brooklyn communities by securing, improving and owning their homes and businesses. NHN’s programs help low-income tenants retain and improve their homes and provide assistance with purchasing affordable first homes and with home repairs.
www.nhnhome.org
27. Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation: The Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation provides housing programs aimed at minimizing evictions and maximizing improvements to the housing stock, as well as employment and social services to residents. Programs include community organizing and housing development, such as the renovation of buildings and the creation of the Lead-Safe House, a temporary residence where families with children poisoned by peeling lead paint can live while their own apartments are being renovated.
www.nmic.org
28. Palladia, Inc.: Palladia is one of the largest not-for-profit, multi-service agencies in New York, helping individuals and families whose problems stem from substance abuse, homelessness, HIV, mental illness, and domestic violence. Palladia services include residential treatment, shelter services, permanent housing, and outpatient and transitional treatment.
www.palladiainc.org
29. The Partnership for the Homeless: The mission of The Partnership for the Homeless is to partner with the faith community, neighborhood-based organizations, business, and government to attack the root causes of homelessness and empower homeless people to secure permanent housing and reach the highest level of independence possible. Programs include a Family Resource Center, providing services to families leaving the city’s shelter system; the Workforce Development program, helping homeless and formerly homeless adults prepare for living-wage jobs; and the Education Rights Project, providing support and educational advocacy for newly homeless families with school-age children.
www.partnershipforthehomeless.org
30. Project FIND: Project FIND, established in 1967 by the National Council on Aging, focuses on providing low- and moderate- income and homeless older adults on Manhattan's West Side with the basic support and services they need to enrich the quality of their lives and live independently.
www.projectfind.org/
31. Project Hospitality: Project Hospitality, a private not-for-profit organization based in Staten Island provides comprehensive services for hungry, homeless, and inadequately housed people, especially those who are living with multiple diagnoses such as HIV, substance use, and/or mental illness. As the only comprehensive homeless service provider in the borough of Staten Island, Project Hospitality serves more than 5,000 Staten Island residents each year.
www.projecthospitality.org
32. The Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council, Inc.: The Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council, Inc. (RBSCC) is a non-profit senior service provider in the Ridgewood and Bushwick communities that provides an array of social services to residents of all ages within the Bushwick, Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Ridgewood, Glendale, and surrounding communities. RBSCC has also developed and constructed affordable housing for the elderly featuring social services.
www.rbscc.org
33. Services for the Underserved: Services for the Underserved (SUS) provides residential and support services to individuals with special needs in New York City. SUS operates residence facilities and scattered-site apartments and provides social services.
www.susnyc.org
34. Strycker’s Bay Neighborhood Council, Inc.: Strycker's Bay Neighborhood Council assists low-income residents of the Upper West Side by preventing homelessness through eviction prevention; educating tenants about their rights and about HUD Fair Housing practices; securing and preserving affordable housing for low-income families and individuals; ensuring that eligible households secure the entitlements they need; and assisting youth in becoming better learners.
 www.stryckersbay.org
35. Supportive Housing Network of New York: The Supportive Housing Network of New York (the Network) represents the statewide supportive housing community of over 160 non-profit organizations that have developed and operate over 26,000 units of safe, affordable housing with on-site services. The Network provides advocacy, resources, public education, technical assistance and the promotion of effective practices to strengthen and expand supportive housing statewide.
www.shnny.org
36. Urban Pathways, Inc.: Urban Pathways provides food, shelter and support services to 8,800 homeless women and men each year, through outreach, drop-in centers and transitional and permanent supportive housing programs. Its residences provide supportive housing for mentally ill, formerly homeless individuals.
www.urbanpathways.org/housing.html
37. West Harlem Group Assistance: West Harlem Group Assistance is made up of several organizations including West Harlem Group, Harlem’s oldest and largest community development organization, the Harriet Tubman Family Living Center (HTFLC), a one hundred unit transitional housing facility providing temporary housing for homeless families displaced by fires, building condemnations, disasters, or evictions, and the Convent Avenue Family Living Center, a transitional housing facility for homeless families sponsored by HPD and NYC Dept. of Homeless Services.
www.urbanpathways.org/housing.html
38. Community Billboards
http://www.nypl.org/branch/local/govt/commbd.html