Resources
This page contains links to information from a variety of sources about supportive housing, homelessness, funding for housing projects, as well as sources of local housing information that we have found useful.
National Resources for Supportive Housing
These publications available from the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) offer invaluable insight into ending homelessness through the creation of Permanent Supportive Housing. Avalon has parnered with CSH since 1996, when CSH began working in Michgan, and Arbordale Apartments were the first CSH-sponsored units developed in Michigan.
Click here to go to the CHS resource page in order to view and download the following documents.
- Focusing on homeless families, Home Works offers effective tools and strategies used by supportive housing providers.
- Laying a New Foundation outlines tools, lessons and strategies supportive housing advocates use to implement system change at state and local levels.
- Estimating the Need is a guide for creating and using a survey of homeless persons to project the need for permanent supportive housing.
Supportive Housing on National Public Radio
As part of a series of stories focusing on homeless people in America, National Public Radio aired this interview with Darren Walker of the Rockefeller Foundation. Walker offers a concise overview of supportive housing - what it is, why it came about, and why it works.
To hear this story in its entirety, click on the following, Searching for Strategies to Help the Homeless, and learn what supportive housing is all about.
National Organizations for Supportive Housing and Homelessness
National Alliance to End Homelessness
www.naeh.org
Corporation for Supportive Housing
www.csh.org
Local Initiatives Support Corporation
www.liscnet.org
National Low-Income Housing Coalition
www.nlihc.org
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
www.hud.gov
State and Local Organizations for Housing and Homelessness
Great Lakes Capital Fund
www.capfund.net
Michigan Coalition Against Homelessness
www.mihomeless.org
Michigan Interfaith Trust Fund
www.interfaithtrust.org
Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA)
www.michigan.gov/mshda
Religious Action for Affordable Housing
City of Ann Arbor
www.ci.ann-arbor.mi.us
Washtenaw County
www.ewashtenaw.org
Housing Bureau for Seniors
www.med.umich.edu/chs/senior.htm
