Supportive Housing: The Role of CSH

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Supportive Housing The Role of CSH

• Stephanie Hartshorn Program ManagerCorporation
  for Supportive Housing
  
• 11/13/07
• www.csh.org

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Our Mission CSH helps communities create
permanent housing with services to prevent and
end homelessness.
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Where We Work

• National offices in New York and Oakland, CA
• Local offices in Connecticut, Rhode Island, New
  York, New Jersey, Washington DC, Michigan, Ohio,
  Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, and California
  
• Targeted initiatives in Kentucky, Maine, Oregon,
  and Washington
  
• CSHs national teams assist supportive housing
  practitioners across the US
  

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What Is Supportive Housing?A cost-effective
combination of permanent, affordable housing
with services that helps people live more stable,
productive lives.
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The Role of CSH

• CSH helps communities create permanent housing
  with services to prevent and end homelessness
  

• CSHs Project Related Assistance
• Predevelopment Funding
• Technical Assistance
• Systems Advocacy

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CSH Products and Services

• Project-Specific Financing and Expertise
• to help create supportive housing
• Capacity Building to strengthen and expand the
  supportive housing industry
  
• Public Policy Reform to build an efficient
  system for producing and financing supportive
  housing

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Assistance from CSH

• CSH can provide assistance from initial project
  idea conception all the way through final
  development.
  
• Successful supportive housing development can be
  subdivided into 10 key steps. CSH can provide
  assistance with each of the following steps
  
• Develop a Clear Vision for the Project
• Build a Solid Development Team
• Identify a Suitable Site
• Build Strong Community Support
• Acquire Sufficient Capital Funding
• Develop a Sound Management Plan
• Finance the Ongoing Operations
• Develop a Solid Service Delivery Plan
• Finance Services for Residents
• Develop an Asset Management Plan

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CSH Funding Products

• CSH offers the financial products outlined below.
  If you believe one of these products may be a
  good fit for your project, please contact CSH for
  more information and an application.
• Grant On a very limited basis CSH provides
  grants to project sponsors to fund organizational
  capacity building, site visits, and program
  start-up costs.
• Project Initiation Loan(PIL) CSH provides
  Project Initiation Loans to fund predevelopment
  costs for projects. PILs do not accrue
  interest.
• Acquisition Loan CSH provides loans to sponsors
  for the acquisition of property for supportive
  housing. Acquisition loans do accrue interest
  and are reimbursed from project financing.

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CSH Resources

• On the CSH website at www.csh.org you can find
• Project profiles
• Toolkits for developing and operating supportive
  housing
  
• Sample memorandums of understanding
• Supportive housing research and best practices
• Information on Policy and Advocacy
• Many, many, other tools and resources

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CSH Contacts

• CSH staff each support one or more MSHDA regions.
  Please
  
• contact the appropriate staff member for your
  region
  
• Region 1
• John Peterson (Lisa Chapman until 12/31/07)
• Contact info for Lisa [phone] x.22,
  lisa.chapman_at_csh.org
  
• Region 2
• John Peterson (Lisa Chapman until 12/31/07)
• Contact info for Lisa [phone] x.22,
  lisa.chapman_at_csh.org
  
• Region 3
• Monique Pierre
• [phone] x.23, monique.pierre_at_csh.org
• Region 4
• Monique Pierre
• [phone] x.23, monique.pierre_at_csh.org

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CSH Contacts (cont.)

• CSH staff each support one or more MSHDA regions.
  Please
  
• contact the appropriate staff member for your
  region
  
• Region 5
• Stephanie Hartshorn
• [phone] x. 24, stephanie.hartshorn_at_csh.org
  
• Region 6
• John Peterson (Lisa Chapman until 12/31/07)
• Contact info for Lisa [phone] x.22,
  lisa.chapman_at_csh.org
  
• Region 7
• Stephanie Hartshorn
• [phone] x. 24, stephanie.hartshorn_at_csh.org
  
• Region 8
• Beverley Ebersold
• [phone] x. 25, beverley.ebersold_at_csh.org

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Getting mentally ill people off the streets and
into supportive housing costs taxpayers only
slightly more than leaving them to fend for
themselves

• The Wall Street JournalMay 2, 2001

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I have 2 years clean and sober, a steady job, I
pay my own rent all of which I could not have
done without supportive housing.
Charlie Miller, TenantCanon Kip, CA