Increasing and Preserving Housing Supply (2005)

• Center for Community Change

  To support the Center for Community Change which provides the only national source of information and technical assistance in the U.S. to support local communities in the creation of Housing Trust Funds. (Over three years)

• Community Access

  To enable New York City-based, Community Access, to upgrade its property management infrastructure and maintain a quality service until revenue growth meets the additional cost of the improved infrastructure. (Over two years)

• Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH)

  To build systems and infrastructure that will make supportive housing a central vehicle for realising the mayor’s ten-year plan to end homelessness in New York City. (Over two years)

  To enable CSH to provide predevelopment financing and technical assistance to local supportive housing organisations participating in the Next Steps Initiative in the State of Connecticut. (Over three years)

• Greater Boston Legal Services

  To support an experienced attorney to represent the tenants at 'Expiring Use' affordable housing developments in Boston. The project will prevent housing from being converted into market-rate rental units. (Over three years)

Active Grants From Previous Years

• Broadway Housing Communities, Inc.

  To offer comprehensive on-site services aimed at rebuilding the lives of the children and families residing in the Dorothy Day Apartments. (Third year of three-year grant)

• Center for Urban Community Services, Inc.

  To provide support services to neighbourhood youth and their families who use Dorothy Day Apartments. (Third year of three-year grant)

• Fortune Society

  To provide support to those who are ready to move on from the Academy, which provides supported housing for ex-prisoners; and to identify a supply of private sector rented housing and to make initial and on-going repairs. (Second year of three-year grant)

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