Housing Works: Housing Prevents AIDS. Housing Improves Health.

Community Story

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  Jill Devoe, Volunteer

  "It makes sense to let people be themselves and be human and get basic care."
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  Miguel Mendez, Housing Works Senior Vice President of Operations

  "In the late 80s and early 90s, most of my friends and family were getting AIDS and dying of AIDS"
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  Vivian Lopez Ponce, Housing Works client

  "Housing Works support groups remind me I'm not the only one who went through hell."
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  Norma Reinhardt Mascarotti, Thrift Shops Volunteer

  “I had worked all my life and still wanted to be involved in something."
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  Ayana Mortley, Thrift Shops Volunteer

  "We have to take care of people who have HIV but also prevent infections."
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  Derrick Chandler, Housing Works Peer Advocate and Client

  "I'm still alive and here from what I learned at Housing Works."
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  Alison Richards, Women’s Health Center client

  "I was in denial. I didn't want to hear that I had HIV."
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  Charles King, President and CEO of Housing Works

  "No matter what we've accomplished, to me, Housing Works remains a healing community."
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  Denise Gordon, Board Member, Housing Works, Inc.

  “You always ask yourself how you can help people. This was something close to home where I felt I could give back.”