Everyone needs a safe and stable place to call home. Home is more than a place. Home ignites hope and fuels dreams for healthy people and resilient families. Vibrant, thriving, connected communities begin with stable housing.
What happens when there aren’t enough safe, stable, affordable places for everyone to live? Skipping crucial medications and meals. Doubling up. Eviction. Homelessness. But homelessness doesn’t have to hopeless.
If you’re struggling with safe, stable housing, have a conversation with us. Together, we’ll work toward a solution.
Some of our solutions include:
- Finding out what it would take for you to stay where you are now. Or re-connecting with family or friends who could house you for at least 30 days.
- Eviction prevention by working with you and/or your landlord, providing financial resources, or referring you to the CBRAP program. In most cases, for financial support, you must have received an eviction notice. Also, our funders limit financial resources to housing crises caused by situations beyond your control, and require documentation that you have the means to pay rent going forward.
- Emergency shelter. Our primary location, Genesis House, is a large, remodeled Victorian era house with private bedrooms and bathrooms, with shared living, laundry, and kitchen access. Leighty House offers a similar living space. Both houses are often at capacity, so Genesis Garden also uses motel rooms for emergency shelter.
- Rapid Re-housing. Adults and children do best when stays in shelter are brief. Rapid Re-housing offers financial assistance and support services to move families from no housing into permanent housing as soon as possible. Financial support and services taper down over several months as the family regains stability. This is a great solution for someone who is unhoused but has the means to pay monthly rent. In many cases, the landlord requirement to pay the security deposit, the first month, and sometimes also the last month of rent to sign a lease.
- Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH). Some families have additional barriers to regaining and maintaining housing. For those who have documented long-term disability(s) and have lost housing, PSH offers more supportive services and rent subsidies without a specific time limit.
- Most of these options for regaining housing stability are open to multi-generational families, large families, self-defined households, returning citizens and those who are justice-involved but who may not be eligible for other housing supports.
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