Since our inception, the New York Program has:

• Committed over $30,500,000 in 179 grants, 145 predevelopment loans and forgivable loans and 243 consultant contract services to over 100 nonprofit organizations. CSH has facilitated the development or rehabilitation of 5,454 units of supportive housing, with 2,177 in development and 3,277 operational.
  Placed over $51 million in gross tax credit equity in 16 New York City projects with over 1,332 units of supportive housing.
• Participated in the shaping of the Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness.
• Created a construction design prototype in collaboration with the State Office of Mental Health.
  Implemented a Structured Capacity Building Program that provided multi-year funding and intensive technical assistance to ten supportive housing providers. 
• Designed the Supportive Housing Employment Model with the New York City Departments of Homeless Services and Housing Preservation and Development to provide employment-focused housing for graduates of the employment and substance abuse programs in the city’s emergency shelters.
  Assisted the Administration for Children’s Services in establishing a housing unit.
• Determined the applicability of using TANF funds for supportive housing, which resulted in a $2 million new state program, Supportive Housing for Families and Young Adults.
• Facilitated the University of Pennsylvania New York/New York Cost Study that determined supportive housing is a cost-efficient solution for homeless mentally ill individuals.
• CSH has recently launched a new initiative to better integrate health care and supportive housing. Aspects of our initiative include: research on the uses of Medicaid-funded services in supportive housing, planning and development of demonstration projects integrating health care and supportive housing, trainings and technical assistance. Also, CSH is releasing a briefing series entitled, Integrating Supportive Housing and the Health Care Sector. The first part of this series is entitled "Involving Public and Nonprofit Hospitals in Supportive Housing," which discusses the roles that public and non-profit hospitals can play in developing and delivering services within supportive housing. Forthcoming topics in this series include service delivery through Federally Qualified Health Centers, Health Care for the Homeless, and other clinics; tapping Medicaid in supportive housing; and others.

The New York Program achieves this through four strategies:

• New Models & Innovations
• Lending and Housing Development Assistance
• Public Policy Analysis and Design, Research and Evaluation, and Advocacy
• Industry Building

Currently CSH’s New York Program is actively assisting New York’s supportive housing industry to successfully implement the New York/New York III Agreement , a City-State partnership that will result in the creation of 9,000 units of supportive housing targeted at chronically homeless individuals with mental illness and/or substance use, and families, young adults aging out of foster care or other institutions, and persons leaving substance abuse treatment and psychiatric centers.  CSH assisted in the design of the overall initiative, and is now helping to design and refine new program models, provide acquisition and development financing, and provide ongoing technical assistance and advice to the City, State, and non-profit provider community. 

CSH is also advancing efforts to extend the supportive housing model to reach people who are homeless and cycling in and out of incarceration through our national Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded Returning Home Initiative.