Our Mission
Housing Works provides homeless and low-income New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS and their families with housing, meals, medical care, drug treatment, social support, employment opportunities and other lifesaving services.
Housing Works is especially committed to serving those who have difficulty obtaining services elsewhere because they struggle with mental illness or chemical dependency.
Through political advocacy, Housing Works and its clients fight to ensure that homeless and low-income people worldwide who are living with HIV/AIDS have access to adequate housing, meals, medical care, drug treatment, social support, employment opportunities and other services fundamental to health and happiness.
Standing with the U.N.
Housing Works’ mission stands in accord with Article 25 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights that:
“Everyone has a right to standard of living adequate for the health and well being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.”
