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South Shore Commons Opens in Gary, IN

South Shore Commons, a supportive housing apartment complex for 60 households, opened in early February in Gary, Indiana. This development will house people who have formerly experienced homelessness who have a disability, and voluntary services will be provided by Edgewater Systems for Balanced Living.

Edgewater Systems led a team through the Indiana Supportive Housing Institute and received a pre-development loan and technical assistance from CSH. The team includes UP Development LLC, Broadway Area Community Development Corporation, NSP Consultants and the City of Gary. The development received Low Income Housing Tax Credits and operational support from the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority.

290_ribbon cutting_140Mayor Karen Freeman Wilson expressed her strong support for this development, calling it extraordinary, and spoke at the ribbon cutting about how providing this type of support for "the least among us" will help households elevate their own status, which will elevate the rest of the community as well.

Indiana Supportive Housing Tenants Create a Housing Task Force

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The final training session on Integrated Housing and Integrated Healthcare facilitated by CSH featured a Supportive Housing Tenant Track. This program led by National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and CSH staff involved sessions on telling your story as a part of advocating for change, peer support, and using your expertise to influence the future of supportive housing. Tenants from Goshen, Indianapolis, Lafayette, Muncie, and Terre Haute joined together during this session to form a NAMI Housing Committee, elected officers, and selected four areas to focus on in the first year:

1. Expand access to and knowledge of supportive housing,
2. Expand access to healthcare,
3. Connect families with children to needed housing and support,
4. Increase peer support

The Housing Committee and staff from NAMI and CSH will meet again in Indianapolis on September 18th and 19th to begin mapping out strategies and a timeline for recruiting additional members and advancing group goals. The second day will involve meeting with the Balance of State Continuum of Care Board of Directors.

All tenants of Indiana supportive housing and those who have an interest in ending homelessness are encouraged to join this NAMI Housing Committee. Please contact Stephanie for more information at 317-632-5874 or stephanie.sideman@csh.org

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The Courtyard Groundbreaking in Fort Wayne, IN

On May 21, nearly 100 people gathered to celebrate the groundbreaking of The Courtyard, a supportive housing development in Fort Wayne, IN that will serve 36 youth aging out of foster care. Speakers included Mayor Tom Henry, representatives from both Senator Coats and Senator Donnelly's offices, and a plethora of partners including development team members, former foster youth, and leaders from the Fort Wayne Housing Authority, Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority, Great Lakes Capital Fund, and CSH.

This development began as a vision that Donna Bolinger, Safe Alternatives for Families and Youth (SAFY) Director of Business Development, shared with key partners. Ms. Bolinger successfully led a team of SAFY staff through the Indiana Permanent Supportive Housing Institute in 2010 and added Biggs Development LLC, Stop Child Abuse and Neglect (SCAN), Neighborhood Development Associates, LLC, and Ideal Builders to her team. Together, this team secured Low Income Housing Tax Credits, TCAP, and Community Development Block Grant funding from the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority and project based section 8 rental assistance from the Fort Wayne Housing Authority.

Following the ceremy, the energized crowd witnessed the beginning of the demolition of the Duemling Clinic, a building that has been vacant for 20 years, that will be removed to make room for new construction. This safely orchestrated first few swipes at the building brought great cheers from those in attendance.

Click here to read more about The Courtyard and view additional pictures.

Conducting Homeless Counts on Native Lands: A Toolkit

CSH and Housing Assistance Council (HAC) collaborated with tribal entities, tribal funding agencies and Wilder Research to create this unique toolkit that can be used by tribal entities as a guide to conducting homelessness counts.  Funded by HUD, this toolkit includes a literature review of overcrowding and tribal housing information, the experiences and lessons learned from the Minnesota reservation homelessness survey, examples of memorandums of understanding, the survey tool used in Minnesota, tribal government resolutions and case studies.

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