SUPPORTIVE HOUSING EXPANDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL NEW YORKERS 1
WHAT IS SUPPORTIVE HOUSING? � “Just being here Supportive housing is permanent, gave me a affordable housing w ith on-site services foundation so I didn’t have to � Permanent: Permanent: Tenants sign leases and pay struggle anymore rent, typically for studio apartments and I could say, this is important to me: � Affordable: Affordable: Units are affordable to New I’ve got my ow n Yorkers earning less than $30,000 a year place, I have my ow n key. When I � Supportive: Serves the needs of the Supportive: Debbie Williams, come in, I feel okay . St. Nicholas House – most vulnerable New Yorkers, including When I w alk in the Project Renew al, the homeless West Harlem, door I say, yes, Manhattan that’s my room; � Proven model: Proven model: Research has show n that that’s my supportive housing is a cost-effective apartment! I’ve been here for tw o solution to high-cost crisis care years and it’s just a � New York City and New York State in the feeling that you can’t explain.” NY/NY III Agreement made a commitment to create 9,000 units of supportive housing over ten years 2
WHO LIVES IN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING? � New Yorkers in supportive “There are a lot of things I like about this building. I take housing are trying to advantage of everything it has to overcome poverty and offer. I feel safe here,” Gertha disability, and need a said. She is appreciative of all the measure of support to put amenities available to the their lives back on track. residents, including the 24-hour laundry, on-site social services, � Low -income, at-risk mail boxes, movie nights, and and formerly events that bring residents Gertha Reid, Georgia’s homeless persons together, including some Place – Community communal meals and yoga Counseling & Mediation, Crow n � People w ith chronic classes. Surrounded by a safety Heights, Brooklyn net that makes dreams possible, health conditions, Gertha is looking forw ard to such as a psychiatric achieving some of the personal disability, chemical goals she has set for herself, such dependency or as taking classes in reading, math HIV/AIDS and computer skills. Source: Latour, Jane. May 2007. “Building Homes, Rebuilding Lives,” Public Employee Press 43(5): 12-13. 3
WHAT DOES SUPPORTIVE HOUSING LOOK LIKE? Abraham Plaza – VIP Community Buckingham House – Community Abraham II – Metropolitan Council on Services, Tremont-Crotona, Bronx Agency for Senior Citizens, Jew ish Poverty, Seagate, Brooklyn Graniteville, Staten Island Corner House – Goddard Riverside Marcy-Hart – Services for the St. Nicholas House – Project Renew al, Community Center, West Harlem, Underserved, Bedford- West Harlem, Manhattan Manhattan Stuyvesant, Brooklyn 4
SUPPORTIVE HOUSING IS GOOD FOR TENANTS SUPPORTIVE HOUSING IS GOOD FOR TAXPAYERS SUPPORTIVE HOUSING IS GOOD FOR COMMUNITIES 5
TENANTS SUPPORTIVE HOUSING IS GOOD FOR 6
SUPPORTIVE HOUSING IS GOOD FOR TENANTS "The day I w as brought to see the apartment I cried so loud and so much because I could not believe it. When I put the key in the door I began to cry like crazy. Still today I cannot believe my good fortune. This Christmas my daughters, aged 9 and 11, cooked up a storm. We spent Christmas Eve at home because w e really w anted to Gibb Mansion – Dorothy Day Apartments – w ake up Christmas morning in our Pratt Area Community Council, Broadw ay Housing apartment. It had been so long Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn Communities, West since w e spent time in an Harlem, Manhattan apartment that w e could call ours that w e w ere not going to miss this opportunity. It w as a happy Christmas. My future and that of my daughters is looking bright. I even got a job in the Dorothy Day Early Childhood Education Center. I'm happy and I ow e it all to Broadw ay Housing." Ms. A, Abraham Plaza – Immaculata Hall – Dorothy Day Apartments – VIP Community Services, St. Vincent’s Catholic Broadw ay Housing Communities, Tremont-Crotona, Bronx Medical Center, Jamaica, West Harlem, Manhattan Queens 7
WHAT SERVICES ARE PROVIDED? � After years of know ing The services provided in only how to sign his supportive housing enable name, James told his tenants to achieve goals case manager that he � did not know how to Seek and obtain employment read. With the help of � Receive education and the Narragansett staff, vocational training James w as connected to adult literacy � Access health care and courses and today can counseling, including not only read and w rite James Bookhart, 12-step programs but is w orking tow ard Narragansett House – his G.E.D. Housing and Services, Inc., � Participate in health, w ellness, Upper West Side, and nutrition classes Manhattan � Receive support from their peers � Receive money management and life skills assistance 8
HOW ARE TENANTS SELECTED? � One night, w ithout w arning, In the homeless shelter Teresa’s partner locked her system, individuals are out of the house and kept all assessed by professional her belongings, leaving her staff w ith nothing but the clothes on her back. After bunking � Applicants w ith special w ith friends for a w hile, needs w ho can live on their Teresa entered the shelter ow n are prepared for system. Now , placed in Teresa Thompson, supportive housing permanent housing, Teresa Warren Street Residence – Fifth Avenue occupies her time w ith her � They are selected by Committee/Community true love, sew ing. She made Access, Boerum Hill, landlords w ho carefully Brooklyn the valance in the building’s screen and choose lobby and the curtains in her individuals w ho w ill be good apartment, and has started tenants and good neighbors designing and sew ing a doll collection called Embroider Face. 9
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SUPPORTIVE HOUSING SAVES MONEY “Cost benefit analysis Supportive housing is less expensive than high-cost crisis continues to demonstrate care and emergency housing systems that housing and supportive services solutions for chronic homelessness may be $1,400 less expensive than this $1,185 population randomly Cost per day per person $1,200 ricocheting through the homeless system and $1,000 expensive mainstream health and law $800 enforcement systems.” $600 $467 – Phillip F. Mangano, Executive Director, $400 Interagency Council $164.57 On Homelessness $200 $74.00 $54.42 $41.85 $0 Hospital Psychiatric Jail Prison Shelter Supportive Hospital Housing Source: Culhane, Dennis, P., Stephen Metraux, and Trevor Hadley. 2002. Public Service Reductions Associated w ith Placement of Homeless Persons w ith Severe Mental Illness in Supportive Housing. Housing Policy Debate 13(1): 107-163 11
WHAT TAXPAYERS ARE SAYING ABOUT HOMELESSNESS AND SUPPORTIVE HOUSING… � In 2002, Frances 81% of New Yorkers think volunteered to supervise homelessness is a “big the distribution of w ater problem” for New York to runners in the New � York City marathon as 72% believe that, as long as they passed through East homelessness exists, the Harlem. She reached out United States has “failed to to the Odyssey House live up to its ideals” residents w ith the hope of recruiting them as � 85% approve of having their volunteers. Several tax dollars pay for housing residents volunteered and for the homeless have continued to do so � over the years. Now 88% favor placing homeless Frances considers the people w ho need additional Frances Mastrota, residents “the w ind Neighbor, Odyssey assistance in supportive beneath my w ings.” House, East Harlem, housing Manhattan Source: Arumi, Maria and Andrew L. Yarrow . 2007. Compassion, Concern, and Conflicted Feelings: New Yorkers on Homelessness and Housing. Public Agenda Report. 12
COMMUNITIES SUPPORTIVE HOUSING IS GOOD FOR 13
SUPPORTIVE HOUSING IS GOOD FOR COMMUNITIES Supportive housing is often built on long-empty lots. . . “St. Nicholas House is another shining example of w hat can be accomplished Before w hen a diverse cross section of the community comes together to implement initiatives that w ill combat the critical housing shortage in New York." – Congressman Charles B. Rangel After St. Nicholas House – Project Renew al, West Harlem, Manhattan 14
SUPPORTIVE HOUSING IS GOOD FOR COMMUNITIES Before After Bergen Residence – Lutheran Social Services, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn 15
SUPPORTIVE HOUSING IS GOOD FOR COMMUNITIES After Bergen Residence – Lutheran Social Services, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn 16
SUPPORTIVE HOUSING IS GOOD FOR COMMUNITIES Before After Jericho Residence I - Jericho Project, Tremont, Bronx 17
SUPPORTIVE HOUSING IS GOOD FOR COMMUNITIES After Jericho Residence I - Jericho Project, Tremont, Bronx 18
SUPPORTIVE HOUSING IS GOOD FOR COMMUNITIES Buildings are attractive, w ell maintained, and designed to match neighborhood density, scale, and appearance Franklin Avenue Apartments – Dunn Glass Factory – Bow ery Residents’ Development/Community Access, Inc., Committee, Bow ery, Manhattan Morrisania, Bronx Capitol Hall Residence – Goddard DeKalb Avenue Apartments – Dunn Riverside Community Center, Upper Development/Community Access, West Side, Manhattan Inc., Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn 19
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