Categories: New York State, Press
07.02.2013
"Supportive housing units transform lives, strengthen neighborhoods and communities"
Governor Cuomo released his annual End of Session report, titled New York Rising, last month. The document offers a rundown of the policies supported by the Cuomo administration and includes an extended passage on the social and fiscal benefits of supportive housing.
"[Supportive housing] projects do a variety of important things," the report reads, "ranging from providing safe housing for domestic violence victims, to transitioning formerly homeless veterans with substance abuse issues to independent housing, to saving localities money by avoiding emergency housing placements in hotels and motels and other, more expensive institutional settings and reducing incidences of hospitalization and the associated costs."
New York Rising also highlights the Governor's Medicaid Redesign Team, which has invested $161 million in supportive housing in just two years. The report concludes that "supportive housing units transform lives, strengthen neighborhoods and communities and conserve public dollars."
You can read the full report here.