Homeless or unstably housed people living with HIV/AIDS whose housing status improves are half as likely to do hard drugs, use needles, share needles or have unprotected sex.
Housing Works believes that the basic day-to-day needs of our clients—shelter, food, and security—must be met before they can effectively seek or make use of our other important services. Research shows that improved housing status facilitates engagement in health services, including HIV testing and care, which in turn has an impact on rates of transmission.
Housing Works operates 143 units of supportive housing, and we take special pride in the appearance and quality of each. They are the homes that serve as the foundation for empowering our clients.
Housing Works operates Congregate Residences in the East New York section of Brooklyn and on East 9th Street on Manhattan's lower East Side. They house 32 and 36 single, HIV-positive adults respectively. Both residences are co-located with Housing Works Adult Day Health Care centers, primary-care clinics, and syringe-exchange programs, making them truly comprehensive facilities. The East 9th Street residence, named the Keith D. Cylar House after one of Housing Works' cofounders, was designated a project of national significance by the U.S. government.
The Women's Transitional Housing Program is a congregate residence in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn that will house 20 single women who have recently been released from the correctional system.
The Transgender Transitional Housing Program provides transitional housing to 20 transgender and gender-variant individuals in the East New York, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, and East Flatbush neighborhoods of Brooklyn. The Staten Island Housing Program provides 20 scatter-site apartments on Staten Island for single adults who are living with HIV/AIDS.
The Staten Island Housing Program (SIHP) consists of 20 scatter-site apartments on Staten Island. These residences are for single adults that are living with HIV/AIDS and who are HASA eligible. An office has been acquired on Richmond Terrace in the St. George area of the Island and the program employs a Program Director, two Case Managers and a Residential Manager. Clients are required to participate in case management services and attend an Adult Day Treatment Program, unless working or in school.
The Stand Up Harlem Housing Program will provide permanent supportive housing to four homeless families with children and at least one family member who is HIV positive, as well as to 11 single people with HIV, in Central Harlem. Located in two beautifully renovated brownstones, the program is expected to open in the Fall of 2007.
Contact:
Ken Robinson
Vice President
Housing Development & Operations
(347) 473-7400