Resources for Community Members Interested in Helping End Homelessness in Saratoga County

Permanent Supportive Housing: The Most Cost Effective and Affordable Solution to End Homelessness

Programs Permanent Supportive Housing is the most cost effective and affordable solution to ending homelessness. Supportive Housing is permanent housing with indefinite leasing or rental assistance paired with supportive services to assist homeless persons with a disability or families with an adult or child member with a disability achieve housing stability. Supportive housing projects in New York provide secure, stable, high-quality accommodations and services to many populations who would otherwise end up in more expensive, institutional settings such as congregate shelters, prisons or public institutions. With more than 50,000 units of supportive housing, New York continues to lead the nation in providing a permanent solution to homelessness (SHNNY).

What is Supportive Housing?

According to New York Governor Hochul, "Ensuring that New Yorkers have access to safe, affordable housing is a fundamental necessity in the fight against homelessness." Here is a selection of articles that explain supportive housing and why it is so effective in helping to end homelessness.

What is Supportive Housing? - The Supportive Housing Network of New York (SHNNY)

The Importance of Supportive Housing - RISE Housing and Supportive Services Blog

History of Supportive Housing in New York State - The Supportive Housing Network of New York (SHNNY)

Studies on the Cost-Effectiveness of Supportive Housing

There are many studies on the cost-effectiveness of supportive housing. Here is a selection of reports that explain why it is so cost-effective.

Supportive Housing Helps Vulnerable People Live and Thrive in the Community - The Center on Budge and Policy Priorities, 2016

Health Care and Public Service Use and Costs Before and After Provision of Housing for Chronically Homeless Persons with Severe Alcohol Problems – Journal of the American Medical Association, 2009

Cost Studies: Housing Chronically Homeless People Saves Money, Lives - National Alliance to End Homelessness, 2015

Outcomes from Housing High Cost Homeless Hospital Patients – Economic Roundtable, 2013

Cost of Serving Homeless Individuals in Nine Cities – Lewin Group, 2004

Hospital Treats Homelessness as a Medical Condition - WBUR Radio, 2019

Best Practices to End Homelessness

Many people in our communities want to know learn more about the best practices to end homelessness, but don’t know where to go. Here are some resources to get you started.

Built for Zero – Community Solutions

National Alliance to End Homelessness

Corporation for Supportive Housing

National Movement to End Homelessness

Homelessness is not Inevitable and can be Solved – these Cities Show us How

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