1. Supportive Housing:
Innovations and
Applications
Jordan Press and Holly Denniston
September 27th, 2011
www.csh.org

2. Who we are
Lending
CSH helps
communities
create permanent Technical
housing with Assistance
services to and
prevent and end Advocacy
homelessness.
Systems
Change

3. What is
Supportive
Housing?

4. 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.

5. Essential Features
Housing Services
Permanent Flexible
Affordable Voluntary
Independent

6. Types of
Supportive Single Site
Housing
Scattered
Integrated
Site

7. Supportive Housing is a Solution to
Multiple Policy Problems
 Increases housing stability
for people who are
Corrections/
Criminal
homeless
Social Justice
Employment
• Reduces incarceration rates
Services
for people with chronic
health challenges
Housing/
Community
Veterans
Affairs
• Improves family functioning
Development Supportive
Housing and decreasing child welfare
involvement
Health/
Aging • Promotes health, wellness,
Hospitals
and access to recovery-
Behavioral
Child Welfare
oriented services and
Health
healthcare

8. The Institutional Circuit of
Homelessness and Crisis
Jail Detox
Emergency
Shelter Residential
Program
Psychiatric Emergency
Hospital Room

9. Integrated Supportive
Housing Model

10. Spectrum of Models
Single Integrated Affordable Tenant
Purpose Housing Housing options

11. 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

12. 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

13. Opportunities to Promote Integrated
Housing
Housing plans
Consolidated plans
Qualified Allocation Plans
Preservation
Pilot Program

14. Examples of
Integrated Supportive
Housing

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. 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

18. Thank you!
Jordan Press
jordan.press@csh.org
Holly Denniston
holly.denniston@csh.org