What is Supportive Housing?
Supportive housing pairs affordable housing with supportive services—like mental health counseling, job placement support, substance use treatment, and case management—to help people find stability and rebuild their lives. It is a proven solution to help people with disabilities and complex needs get housed and stay housed. Supportive housing has been shown to lower taxpayer costs by reducing reliance on expensive crisis systems like emergency rooms and jails.
Supportive housing works. It helps people get housed and stay housed, while lowering taxpayer costs by reducing reliance on crisis systems.
Decades of evidence have proven that supportive housing works. People rebuild their lives and thrive when they have access to safe, affordable housing.
Supportive housing makes communities stronger and safer.
Supportive housing works to move people off the streets and into stable housing. Evidence shows that communities are safer and stronger when they invest in proven solutions like supportive housing.
Related Resources
July 1, 2026
One-pager for lawmakers on what supportive housing is and why it works.
April 1, 2026
The CSH Supportive Housing Need tool provides communities with system‑level data on supportive housing needs across populations and systems, informing policy and program design. It…
March 16, 2026
We partnered with Housing Narrative Lab to research supportive housing narratives & perceptions.
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