Alliance for Housing and Healing is honored to be part of a new project that will provide much-needed permanent supportive housing in Long Beach. With this special grant from the City of Long Beach, we will have 18 new apartments for chronically homeless individuals who have called the streets and shelters “home” for way too long. Each client will receive intensive case management to ensure that they are connected to medical and mental health services as well as other supports that will ensure they remained housed.
This new program will follow the Housing First model with its low-barrier entry to ensure that we are serving those who are most in need of immediate assistance. Housing First can provide housing without required prerequisites such as the completion of a course of treatment or evidence of sobriety. This best practice can yield higher housing retention rates and thus lower other costs associated with homelessness such as the use of crisis services and emergency medical care. Housing First has been identified as a core strategy for ending homelessness in Opening Doors: the Federal Strategic Plan to End Homelessness.
