These successful programs provide more than 28,000 rent subsidies to local governments and their nonprofit partners, including Catholic Charities agencies, to provide housing and support services for homeless persons with disabilities such as mental illness and those who are terminally ill. The bipartisan-backed bill would automatically renew these vital housing subsidies for thousands of disabled persons. Under current law, the subsidies expire every five years, leaving households at- risk of becoming homeless again. Although Congress resolved the immediate crisis, these same projects and others like them remain in jeopardy. In addition, research shows us that Shelter Plus Care tenants, once stabilized in supportive housing, drastically reduce their use of costly systems such as emergency rooms, psychiatric hospitals, and jails.
Social services range from adoption and counseling to food and housing.
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