PREVENTING HOMELESSNESS

Broadway Housing Communities, Inc. 10 Fort Washington Avenue New York, NY 10032

$25,000 Contact: Ellen Baxter 212-568-2030x207

Project: Supportive Housing for Families, Dorothy Day Apartments: Project Development Broadway Housing is a small, community-based agency with a longstanding commitment to advocacy, supportive housing development, and employing tenants of its projects. A grant from the FAR Fund will be used to support the planning and development of the Dorothy Day Apartments, a turn-of–the-century building located on the corner of Riverside Drive and 135 th Street . There will be 70 apartments with supportive services for families and individuals in need. A childcare center and after school youth program and community program will be developed and operated in collaboration with the Center for Urban Community Services.

Center for New York City Affairs Milano Graduate School, New School University 72 Fifth Avenue, Room 618 New York, NY 10011

$50,000 Contact: Andrew White 212-229-5418 x1506

Project: Countering Homelessness in New York City : The Bridge Between Neighborhood-Based Family Supports and Housing The Center for New York City Affairs is a nonpartisan, university-based forum for informed analysis and public dialogue about critical urban issues, with an emphasis on low-income neighborhoods and rapidly changing communities. The grant from the FAR Fund will allow the Center to define the extent and quality of family support services and related programs linked to housing in New York City, examine sources of data to define the concentric circles of need for family support programs linked to housing in high-poverty neighborhoods, and develop a simple cost-benefit analysis of supportive housing and family support services.

Center for Urban Community Services 120 Wall Street (25th Floor) New York, NY 10005

$25,000 Contact: Tony Hannigan 212-801-3313

Project: Supportive Housing for Families, Dorothy Day Apartments: Project Development The Center for Urban Community Services strives to advance effective housing and service initiatives for homeless and low-income individuals. The grant from the FAR Fund will enable CUCS to plan and design supportive services for the families in the Dorothy Day Apartments, in collaboration with Broadway Housing Communities, Inc.

Supportive Housing Network of New York 475 Riverside Drive ( Suite 250 ) New York, NY 10115

$25,000 Contact: Maureen Friar 212-870-3303

Project: Family Supportive Housing Initiative The Supportive Housing Network of New York represents 150 service providers of supportive housing in New York State and engages in advocacy, and public education related to supportive housing. With support from the FAR Fund they have joined with the Tier II Coalition and other organizations to undertake the Supportive Housing Initiative, an advocacy campaign to create a system of supportive housing for families.

Thorpe Family Residence, Inc. 406 East 184th Street Bronx, NY 10458	$50,000 Contact: Sister Barbara Lenniger 718-295-2550
Project: Park Avenue Thorpe Thorpe Family Residence Inc. has provided shelter and services including permanent supportive housing to homeless families for over thirteen years in one of the poorest sections of the Bronx . With the grant from the FAR Fund, they will continue providing supportive housing for families, and increase their fund raising capacity.