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Challenges and Responses: Developing Supportive Housing in Rural Areas

Challenges and Responses: Developing Supportive Housing in Rural Areas. MHSA Small County TA Call Corporation for Supportive Housing 7/21/10 www.csh.org. How Does Supportive Housing Break the Cycle of Homelessness?. Creates stability Fosters self-sufficiency

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Challenges and Responses: Developing Supportive Housing in Rural Areas

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  1. Challenges and Responses: Developing Supportive Housing in Rural Areas MHSA Small County TA CallCorporation for Supportive Housing7/21/10www.csh.org

  2. How Does Supportive Housing Break the Cycle of Homelessness? • Creates stability • Fosters self-sufficiency • Facilitates the process for securing and retaining employment • Helps tenants maintain and increase wellness and decrease harms through flexible, available, accessible and relevant services • Encourages peer support through tenant associations, peer support groups and other opportunities for community building

  3. Barriers to Housing Development in Rural Communities • Lack of Available Sites • Lack of Local Housing Finance Resources • High Cost of Property • Designing & Providing Cost Effective, Quality Services • Local Buy-In for the Projects (Political Will) • Lack of Local Non-Profit Capacity • Transportation

  4. Traditional Responses • Send folks to the cities. • Refer to inappropriate agencies. • Develop temporary sheltering facilities.

  5. Challenges for CSH • Adapting an urban supportive housing model to diverse rural communities • Helping build partnerships in local communities and helping partners understand their roles and solve tough problems • Assisting in connecting communities to resources of state agencies, including DMH and Cal HFA • Promoting best practices while allowing room for local decision making

  6. How CSH Provides Support • Community Support: The most critical issue in creating non-urban supportive housing is gaining community support. CSH has many tools related to this process, including templates for creating your own flyers, informational pieces and other useful tools in organizing support for supportive housing in your community.

  7. Tools for Community Support Customizable Tools and Other Community Support Materials • Supportive Housing Flyer • Agenda for a Community Meeting • How to Talk about Supportive Housing • Addressing Common Community Concerns • Project Fact Sheet • SH Fact Sheet - What it is and What it Isn't • Building a Core Group • Sample Newsletter Articles • Sample “Needs Statement” for community, funders or government officials • Volunteer Information Sheet • Organizing Successful Affordable Housing Tours

  8. How CSH Provides Support • Project Development: CSH has a substantial library of documents for use in developing a project. Links to CSH’s Toolkit for Developing and Operating Supportive Housing, which contains more than 150 informational pieces, tools and sample documents, will provide information on everything from finance to property management. 

  9. How CSH Provides Support Coordination of Property Management and Supportive Services: • Coordination of Property Management and Supportive Services in Permanent Supportive Housing: Self Assessment Tool (2008) • The Seven Dimensions of Quality for Supportive Housing: Definitions and Indicators; Quality Assessment Tools; and Additional Materials and Resources 2009 • Supportive Housing Property Management Operations Manual  2003 • Best Practices Manual: Integrating Property Management and Services in Supportive Housing 2009

  10. Making the Case for Change • Communicate key results from research to policymakers • Focus on results instead of the problem • Keep it simple • Personal stories make an impact • Use the media • Use site visits and tours of promising projects to put a “face” on data and policy message

  11. Making the Case for Change • Government support is not the same as Community Support. Government support is critical for projects, but support from neighborhood and community members is also important. • Building Community Support: • Start with the goal of creating public awareness of the need for supportive housing in the community • In small communities this means building support from the ground up. • Develop a Core Group of people who understand the need, are able to explain supportive housing and who are willing to spend the time helping to educate others

  12. See CSH’s “Small Town Toolkit” for more informationwww.csh.org/

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