Housing & Homelessness
Overview
The Mental Health Project works with individuals experiencing mental health challenges who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, helping them secure stable housing and access public benefits that support housing stability.
How We Help
- Help obtain and maintain rental subsidies, such as Section 8, DRIE & SCRIE, and FHEPS & CityFHEPS, rental vouchers, and HRA One Shot deals.
- Assist with renewals and recertifications, updating household information, coordinating apartment inspections, leasing renewals, and requesting transfer vouchers.
- Provide advice on supportive housing application and leasing process.
- Refer people to care managers and other organizations that can assist with the supportive housing application process, representation in housing court, accommodations and placement in shelters, emergency safety transfers, and reasonable accommodations requests from landlords.
- Help apply for cash assistance, shelter allowance, SNAP (food stamps), storage payments, and one-shot deals for moving costs, furniture allowance, rent arrears, and utility arrears.
- Resolve a range of HRA benefit payment issues
- Help request reasonable accommodations with HRA for those with disabilities.
- Act as liaison with HRA, landlords, housing authorities, homebase offices, and attorneys.
- Provide advocacy in housing court.
The Mental Health Project does not have housing attorneys and cannot provide legal representation in housing court.
