2012 AnnuAl RepoRt - Neighborhood Service Organization

HOMELESS SERVICES programs
Supportive Housing
NSO utilizes a “Housing First” approach to provide permanent supportive housing
services to formerly homeless consumers. This approach provides homeless
people with housing quickly, and then provides them with their needed services
in their neighborhood.
Permanent supportive housing provides stability so the resident can begin to
address the challenges that led him or her to homelessness. This stability, a caring
NSO case manager, and a network of supports, help the formerly homeless
individual live a more stable, productive life at great cost benefit to the community.
In 2012, NSO supported 78 people in scattered site apartments and began
moving 155 residents into the NSO Bell Building.
By some estimates, a single individual living
on the street can cost $50,000 or more
per year in police calls, jail time, ambulance
calls and time spent in hospitals. Permanent
supportive housing costs as little as $17,200
a year in subsidized rent and supportive
services – resulting in a savings of $32,800
to the community for each person housed.