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Housing Works, the nation's largest community-based AIDS
service organization, is a minority-controlled organization
dedicated to providing housing, healthcare, job training,
and vital supportive services to homeless people with
AIDS and HIV.
When Housing Works was founded in June 1990, there were
fewer than 350 units of supportive housing for the estimated
30,000 homeless New Yorkers with AIDS and HIV. AIDS was
fast becoming a leading cause of homelessness in New York
City, with thousands living on the streets or in dangerous,
squalid, and disease-ridden shelters, with no access to
healthcare or social services. An outgrowth of the Housing
Committee of the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT
UP), Housing Works' innovative approach of providing housing
and services coupled with vigorous advocacy on behalf
of our constituents has made it the national model for
attacking the twin crises of AIDS and homelessness.
Housing Works is often the agency of last resort, providing
housing and supportive services to New Yorkers traditionally
deemed hardest to serve. We are succeeding at what many
told us was simply impossible - reaching and engaging the
most marginalized and disenfranchised of those affected
by the AIDS epidemic.
In the little more than a decade of its existence, Housing
Works has:
Housed and/or provided supportive services to well over
15,000 individuals.
Attracted national recognition for developing innovative,
client-centered models of housing and services for hard-to-reach
populations.
Become known as New York’s leading advocate for the
rights of our constituents.
Created New York’s first and most successful job
training and placement program for homeless people with
AIDS and HIV.
Pioneered the use of entrepreneurial ventures both to
underwrite our programs and to help our clients achieve
economic self-sufficiency.
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