Affordable Housing & Supportive Services
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We work with organizations ranging from:
Federal, State, Local, and Foreign Governments
Public Housing Agencies (PHAs)
Nonprofit and Multifamily Owners
Supportive Service Providers
Foundations and Other Grant-Making Entities
Check out examples of our work, featured below.
The FSS Program helps families in affordable and subsidized housing achieve their goals through a combination of dedicated coaching and a powerful rent incentive, in the form of the FSS escrow.
We co-led the FSS Program for more than half a decade, expanding it from Public Housing (Section 9) and Housing Choice Vouchers (Section 8) to private and nonprofit Multifamily Housing.
During this time, we overhauled the application and award process, rolled out new rules with expanded technical assistance, and oversaw the near doubling of the program from $75m to more than $140m.
We have experience helping programs launch, improve, and expand, as well as a deep understanding of HUD requirements and regulations.
Jobs Plus helps public housing residents achieve their goals through a combination of coaching and training opportunities, community supports for work, and a generous 4-year rent incentive, called the Jobs Plus EID (JPEID).
We helped scale-up Jobs Plus from a demonstration project to a full-fledged program, leading two cohorts and more than a dozen grantees through their multiyear launch and implementation cycles, which started before, included, and concluded after the COVID-19 pandemic.
We also helped develop a tracking tool and technical assistance for the JPEID. We have global knowledge of the Jobs Plus program, having helped produce program guidance and resources and organize national conferences and webinars.
Uniquely, ROSS helps connect HUD-assisted households with service providers and resources in their communities (including Tribal).
We helped develop a comprehensive and interactive program implementation and reference guide, Running ROSS Step-by-Step.
As one of the key ROSS focus areas, we conducted focus groups and environmental scans to better understand the health needs in ROSS communities and to help expand access to federal partner resources (see Health Partnerships below).
We helped inform the ROSS program redesign and the launch of the Rapid Response ROSS emergency grants. We offer knowledge of ROSS, including application, operation, reporting, and compliance.
As key Social Determinants of Health (SDoH), we understand the importance of housing and health on the wellbeing of communities.
We co-led the Community Health Worker Place-Based Approach To Health (CHW-PATH) collaboration between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and HUD during the COVID-19 pandemic, working with community healthcare providers and national stakeholders to train and hire CHWs at public housing sites.
We also served as HUD’s ambulatory (clinical) care liaison to HHS’s Healthcare Resiliency Working Group (HRWG) during the COVID-19 pandemic, helping to coordinate the availability of influenza (flu) vaccinations and prepare for the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines.
Working with the National Center for Health in Public Housing (NCHPH), an HHS-funded training and technical assistance provider, we helped support Community Health Centers in their provision of affordable and accessible primary care in HUD-assisted communities.
We helped launch the ConnectHome (later ConnectHomeUSA) digital access program in HUD-assisted communities and were key a key author and editor of the ConnectHome Playbook reference guide.
A collaboration between private and nonprofit stakeholders to provide affordable internet access, devices, and digital training and skills, ConnectHome has helped narrow the homework gap and connect families with digital opportunities.
As we learned in the COVID-19 pandemic, digital access is no longer a luxury but a requirement for full participation in civic and social life. We have worked with communities across the country to help leverage federal, state, and local programs to expand fuller digital access.
Understanding housing as a platform for opportunity, we helped promote opportunities for supporting community education, employment, and health. To this end, we helped rebrand and relaunch HUD Strong Families as a nationwide initiative for all HUD-assisted communities, offering year-round resources and support.
This included helping to research, compile, and publish It Starts with Housing, a reentry toolkit to support the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) mission to support rehabilitation, reduce recidivism, and promote better community integration of the justice-involved, with a focus on maintaining and improving community safety.
We also supported the continuation of HUD’s Father’s Day Initiative, helping to promote family unification efforts, highlighting the important contributions of mothers, fathers, extended family, and community members in the overall wellbeing of children and families.
