HOUSING SERVICES & DEVELOPMENT

SERVICES

Prevent Homelessness

HomeBase:  As an integral part of the City’s plan to end homelessness; CAMBA operates this homelessness prevention program to stabilize current housing for 600 families and individuals who are at risk of homelessness in Community District # 3, Bedford-Stuyvesant. The program is focused on serving secondary or “doubled-up” tenants. Services include resolving the underlying factors that put people at risk of losing their housing, case management, home visiting, job training, informal/formal mediation, budget counseling, education (ESL or GED), advocacy, financial assistance, referrals to CAMBA “in-house” programs and other community service providers, while enhancing the ability of community members to live independently, and empower clients to reach self-sufficiency.

Homelessness Prevention (EPU):  CAMBA's Eviction Prevention Unit (EPU), located on‑site in the Linden and DeKalb Job Centers in Brooklyn, serves 2,000 permanently housed families per year who are at risk of losing their housing through eviction.  CAMBA's client advocates help families stabilize their housing and financial situations by providing benefits, advocacy and referrals to legal services that will help them resolve problems with government benefits and housing.

Tenant Support Services (TSS): Through a contract with the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), CAMBA provides case management and eviction prevention services to families receiving Section 8 housing vouchers through HPD to ensure they have the services and resources to remain in stable housing.

Emergency and Transitional Housing

Gathering Place Homeless Drop-in Center: The Drop-in Center serves up to 125 homeless men and women, 18 years and older, each day. Open 24-hours a day/seven days a week, the Center provides a safe, sanitary, and stable alternative to the street using an individualized and flexible approach to serve the hard to reach homeless population. Services available include two meals a day, shower and laundry facilities, access to clothing, mail and phone services, recreational activities, case management services, entitlements assistances, comprehensive medical and mental healthcare, acupuncture, substance abuse treatment and referrals to treatment resources. The Center’s goal is to reconnect clients to treatment services and assist in their transition into a shelter or permanent housing.

Atlantic House Shelter:  CAMBA’s shelter in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn provides temporary emergency housing in a safe, supportive and drug-free facility for 200 single men at any given time (300 over the course of the year) 140 of whom are dually diagnosed with mental illness and substance abuse.

Broadway House Shelter: CAMBA’s shelter in Bushwick serves 165 women, 37 of whom are mentally ill and chemically addicted. The Broadway House  provides temporary emergency housing in a safe, supportive environment with programs designed to enable the women to improve their skill at securing long-term permanent housing and becoming self-sufficient. The ultimate goal is to help them move to program shelters or permanent housing and establish linkages with housing options in the community.

Park Slope Shelter for Women:  CAMBA operates a homeless shelter for 70 MICA (mentally ill chemical abusing) women at the Park Slope Armory in Brooklyn. This supportive, structured and therapeutic facility provides temporary housing, nutritious meals and comprehensive services and assistance to enable mentally-ill and often substance-abusing women to stabilize their condition and move toward permanent and/or supported housing.

Relocation to Permanent Housing

Case Management Services to Tenants at the Clermont Hotel and LEX-Brooklyn Residence (OCS): CAMBA is contracted to provide comprehensive case management services to homeless families residing at the Clermont Hotel and Lex-Brooklyn Residence.  Staff help them transition into permanent housing.

Homes of Your Own (HOYO):  The program provides a combination of tenant outreach, relocation assistance, pre and post-employment services, job placement and retention. Single residents of New York City Shelters are assisted with up to a $300 a month subsidy to move to private apartments so that they can remain in affordable housing and obtain a level of self-sufficiency through employment. In addition to helping participants with their immediate housing transfer, they receive employment services and coaching to ensure long-term stability.

Relocation and Employment Assistance Program (REAP): REAP assists families and individuals in the City’s shelter system who receives Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).  Program staff provides services designed to help families identify and move into affordable housing.

Emergency Transitional Housing Program (ETHP): ETHP provides transitional housing services to clients living with HIV/AIDS. Housing is provided in the form of a twenty-four hour congregate residence with a capacity for eight clients. The program also has six two-bedroom apartments in the community, each of which is shared by two clients. The program’s goal is to prepare clients to live independently.  Participation in the program is generally limited to one year.

Permanent and Transitional Housing Program (PTHP): PTHP is available to clients living with HIV/AIDS, who have a history of mental illness or a history of substance abuse. The program leases twelve studio and/or one-bedroom apartments in the community, which clients sublet from the program and the program works with eight clients who lease apartments in their own name. There is also a twenty-four hour congregate residence, which houses ten clients in need of transitional housing.  Clients in the independent apartments receive assistance with their utility bills.

Aftercare

Homeless Intervention Program (HIP/SHIP):  CAMBA provides case management for over 200 formerly homeless families annually who have recently been relocated from the City's shelter system to permanent housing in Brooklyn and the Bronx. Families receive services that help them overcome problems with public benefits, housing, education, health care, and other issues that could impede their ability to maintain stable households. CAMBA Legal Services also offers eviction prevention services under this contract.

PERMANENT HOUSING

CAMBA Housing Ventures: CAMBA has launched an initiative to develop affordable housing for persons with low income and/or with special needs living in Brooklyn and New York City.  Housing Ventures has been incorporated with the goal of developing 1,000 units of permanent housing affordable to a broad cross section of this community over the next ten years, while offering lower-income individuals and families a comprehensive range of housing and other supportive services.

Hope Housing Program:  This program provides 25 permanent scattered site apartments to individuals and families living with HIV/AIDS who also have a history of mental illness and/or chronic substance abuse. The program houses 20 individuals and five families, while providing case management, mental health counseling, housing assistance, and substance abuse support.

Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA): The HOPWA program provides housing for persons living with HIV/AIDS who have a history of substance abuse and mental illness.  HOPWA clients receive case management services from either HOPWA or Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) staff.  HOPWA clients receive monthly financial assistance for utilities.

Men’s Supportive Housing Program:  This program provides both permanent and transitional housing to men who are single or who have children.  The program will assist fourteen individuals and two families find a permanent apartment in the community.  The lease will be in the individual’s name and each person will receive limited financial assistance with his utility bills.  The program also leases 2 two-bedroom apartments in the community, which will provide transitional housing to four single men.  Each client will have their own locked bedroom but will share common areas such as the kitchen and living room.  Clients will live here until they are ready to transition to permanent housing.

Scattered Site Housing Program (SSHP): SSHP is a community-based, independent apartment housing program for HIV/AIDS Services Administration (HASA) clients. Both case management and housing maintenance services are provided. Clients receive assistance with their utility bills.

PRESS RELEASE ARCHIVES

• CAMBA Housing Venture’s Morris Manor, a newly constructed studio apartment building in the heart of Flatbush, Brooklyn, is taking rental applications for 18 affordable housing units.  Click here for more information.