Affordable Housing
Frequently Asked Questions
CHV’s developments provide onsite supportive services in partnership with CAMBA. This means our tenants live in permanent, affordable, and supportive housing. Our onsite supportive services are offered to all residents, regardless of whether or not they are formerly unhoused, and include tailored case management as well as connections to CAMBA’s city-wide programming.
What is supportive housing?
Supportive housing combines affordable housing with supportive services that help people who face complex challenges to live with stability, self-sufficiency, and dignity. The struggle to stay in a home or find affordable housing deeply affects a person’s ability to find a job, attend school, maintain good health, and raise children. The combination of CHV’s affordable housing developments and CAMBA’s life-changing supportive services for residents equals housing stability, safety, and opportunities to build stronger and brighter futures.
Emergency and Shelter Housing
offers temporary residence, safety, and protection from exposure to the weather for unhoused families and individuals.
Transitional Housing
provides temporary residential housing, congregate housing, or rental assistance in scattered site apartments to help unhoused families and individuals transition to permanent housing.
Affordable Housing
also referred to as workforce housing, provides permanent rental housing below the market rate, or housing which the tenant pays no more than 30 percent of their gross income for rent and utilities.
Supportive Housing
provides permanent affordable housing coupled with onsite supportive services to help people facing complex challenges live stable, independent, and healthy lives.
How can I find permanent housing?
Anyone looking for housing must apply through NYC Housing Connect, the portal to find and apply for affordable housing opportunities across the five boroughs of New York City. The NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and the NYC Housing Development Corporation (HDC) created this portal to make the affordable housing application process easier, more accessible, and user-friendly.
To learn more about New York City’s affordable housing programs or to get general information about housing in New York, please visit:
New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA)
How can I learn more about City programs?
New Yorkers have access to a broad range of programs and services through various city agencies. The New York City Department of Homeless Services (DHS) offers homelessness prevention support, access to safe shelters, child support services, and more. The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) works to protect and promote New Yorkers’ health with programs ranging from access to vaccines and substance abuse treatment, to loneliness reduction and access to health insurance.
To learn more about New York City’s programs, please visit:
New York City Department of Homeless Services
NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
How can I learn more about housing policy and advocacy?
The transformative impact affordable housing has on communities is widely recognized and many groups have come together to advocate for public policy that preserves, expands, and improves the development of supportive housing. CHV has partnered with organizations that advocate on the city, state, and federal levels of government.
To learn more about groups that share CHV’s mission of increasing the supply of affordable housing, please visit:
Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH)
New York State Association for Affordable Housing (NYSAFAH)
Citizens Housing & Planning Council (CHPC)
Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development
Supportive Housing Network of NY (SHNNY)
Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition
National Low Income Housing Coalition
Why Supportive Housing?
Supportive housing offers a cost-efficient and effective solution to combatting homelessness. It is less expensive than cycling unhoused families and individuals through shelters, institutions and hospitals, and it benefits entire communities. Supportive housing developments provide ample resources and amenities, keep tenants stably housed and on the path to independence, and improve a block’s visual appeal and neighborhood safety.