Supportive Housing

Supportive Housing is an intervention that combines permanent affordable housing and housing assistance with voluntary support services to address the needs of people experiencing chronic homelessness, people living with serious mental illness, intellectual or developmental disabilities, chronic substance use disorders, and other vulnerable populations. Services may include, but are not limited to, housing case management, substance use counseling, mental health counseling, tenancy preservation and eviction prevention services, employment services, or other services as appropriate to the individual needs and interests of residents being served. 

The Georgia Supportive Housing Institute, funded by DCA, is a signature Corporation Supportive Housing initiative that offers an interactive workshop series to build the capacity of development teams and equip them with knowledge to create new supportive housing projects. The Institute brings together housing developers/owners, homeless service and healthcare providers, property managers and other sponsors to learn and navigate the process of developing housing with supportive services. Participating supportive housing teams learn how to more efficiently seek and obtain funding for projects by improving planning, development, and initial project implementation. The Institute focuses on building the capacity of both new and experienced supportive housing teams to serve vulnerable populations. Each team leaves the Institute with an individualized, detailed plan for the project’s design, operations and potential funding sources.