About CSH
CSH promotes affordable housing with supportive services to ensure everyone has a safe home. We do this by collaborating with communities for innovative, cost-effective solutions to homelessness.
Supportive Housing for Thriving Communities
We are on a mission to help communities nationwide solve homelessness with innovative, effective, and evidence-based supportive housing solutions. Supportive housing works because it addresses the root causes of homelessness. Communities that integrate supportive housing noticeably reduce street homelessness, make the most of taxpayer dollars, and build thriving neighborhoods.
Our Solutions for Communities
Technical Assistance, Training and Consulting
We collaborate with communities to move projects from idea to reality. Our decades of technical experience means we know how to plan, launch, and run supportive housing. Our collaborative, non-partisan approach helps communities reduce public costs and administrative hurdles for effective, lasting results.
Policy & Advocacy
We work with community leaders to co-create sensible and cost-effective policies that help solve homelessness and unstable housing. We believe in common-sense, non-partisan policies that are grounded in evidence that affordable housing and services costs less, benefits individuals in the long run, and makes communities safer.
Loans and NMTC Investments
We offer New Market Tax Credit (NTMC) investments and flexible, low-cost loans to commercial, or housing developers interested in building new affordable housing or community services that help people thrive. Our loans influence projects, change systems, and increase critically needed supplies of quality affordable and supportive housing.
Our Impact
More than $1,500,000,000 in Loans, NMTC & Grants
CSH is a national nonprofit intermediary and Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), with dedicated staff members spread across more than 30 U.S. states and territories. We are the only national nonprofit with an unwavering focus solely on supportive housing. Together with our partners, we are working towards creating thriving communities where every individual has a place to call home.
Are you an individual seeking housing or support?
We truly understand the challenges you may be facing in seeking housing and services. However, CSH does not operate housing nor provide direct assistance for housing, services, referrals, or case management.
If you are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless, dial 211 or 311 on your phone to learn about housing and services available to you. You may also visit 211.org.
For more information on how to get help, visit the National Alliance to End Homelessness: How to Get Help If You Are Experiencing Homelessness
Our People
Our dedicated and accomplished board of directors and staff share a passion for bettering the lives of people and communities by working to ensure everyone has a safe place to call home. With a commitment to excellence and compassion, we have successfully deployed numerous initiatives that have transformed lives and strengthened communities. We employ more than 180 full-time staff who live and work in the communities we serve across the country.
Our History
Founded in 1991, CSH pioneered a model that combines affordable, stable housing with comprehensive support services for individuals experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of homelessness. Inspired by the success of two Franciscan priests in New York City, social entrepreneur Julie Sandorf recognized the power of this approach in keeping people housed and healthy. With seed support from the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Ford Foundation, CSH was established to help communities nationwide create quality supportive housing. Today, CSH operates in nearly 50 states, continuing its mission to end cycles of homelessness and institutionalization by providing quality, affordable housing, and essential services to those facing complex barriers to housing.
Our 2025-2026
Strategic Plan
Supportive Housing at a Crossroads
The shortage of affordable and supportive housing is in crisis proportions. Rising rents and stagnant wages have led to a growing gap in affordable housing of nearly 7 million units.
From 2025 to 2026, the CSH strategic plan will guide our work toward building thriving communities with access to affordable housing and supportive services.
Our Mission
CSH works to advance affordable housing aligned with services as an approach to help people thrive. We do this by advocating for effective policies and funding, investing in communities, and strengthening the supportive housing field.
Our Vision
A world in which all people are thriving. People have a safe and affordable home, a community in which they feel belonging, and the services and wealth they need to sustain it.
Our Values
CSH’s values are the rich soil from which all our efforts grow. We apply our values to our
work internally so that we can strengthen our efforts with people and communities. The
journey to live out our values is constant and ongoing. We celebrate our successes and learn
from our failures, always working toward a better future.
Principled Risk Taking
We take disciplined risks to create
bold and lasting change.
Courageous Interdependence
We rely on each other to thrive.
Opportunity
for All
We put equality, fairness, and
kindness at the heart of our work.
Authenticity
We are transparent about who we
are, how we act, and what we do.
Joy
We pursue joy to transform
community.