HOME News Coverage

The New York supportive housing community has received a great deal of press in recent months. Many of these articles have highlighted residences that received capital funding from HOME, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) largest source of capital funding for affordable housing. Click on the images below to read recent stories on the following HOME-funded residences. Each image also highlights the amount of HOME dollars used to develop the building.

Despite major advocacy efforts from the Network and its federal partners, Congress has finalized a 38% cut to the HOME program for the 2012 fiscal year. Learn more about the recent cuts to HOME and other HUD programs here.

The Schermerhorn
Broadway World

The Schermerhorn provides 216 units of supportive housing to a unique mix of tenants: high-need formerly street homeless individuals coping with psychiatric disabilities, individuals with HIV/AIDS and low-income people, most of whom are associated with the entertainment world. A collaborative effort among Common Ground Community, The Actors Fund and Center for Urban Community Services, the Schermerhorn won the Network's 2011 Outstanding Residence of the Year award.
 

Castle Gardens
New York Times

The Fortune Society's Castle Gardens provides supportive housing to a mix of families and individuals -- some have histories of incarceration, some are low-income families from the community. This innovative residence used $8.3 million in HUD HOME funding to leverage an additional $35 million in private and local investment. Teh building was the subject of a New York Times feature story on April 1, 2011.


 

True Colors Residence
In the Life

The True Colors Residence -- which opened in September 2011 -- is the first supportive housing residence dedicated to providing housing and services to homeless, LGBT youth. Some 40% of all homeless youth identify as LGBT. Singer Cyndi Lauper was instrumental in raising funds and awareness for this watershed project. True Colors was featured in a nine-minute segment in the November 2011 issue of In the Life.


 

Fordham Village
New York Daily News

Jericho Project opened the city's first supportive housing residence for homeless veterans this year -- Fordham Village. At the opening were veterans from the wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan as well as one of the original Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American World War II military aviators. Fordham Village was featured in a May 24, 2011 article in the New York Daily News.



 

Dorothy Day Apartments
New York Daily News

This innovative supportive housing residence on Riverside Drive in Harlem incorporates a Head Start and daycare center for residents and the surrounding community. It utilized $1.5 million in HUD HOME funding to leverage an additional $15 million in private and public resources. The Dorothy Day Apartments were also written about by columnist Charles Blow of the New York Times in "It Takes A Village."


 

Hour Apartment House III
Wall Street Journal

Hour Children is one of the few nonprofit organizations to help women coming out of prison get housing and jobs in the community, in addition to helping their children. The organization just broke ground on their newest residence in Queens, which will provide affordable housing and supports to 16 formerly incarcerated women and their children. The future residence was featured in a November 1, 2011 article in the Wall Street Journal.