Integrated Tenancy
Broadway Housing’s supportive housing is distinctive for its integration of the healthy and disabled, the young and elderly, the employed and dependent. Our tenants include those with mental disabilities, HIV/Aids and other chronic health conditions, and many in recovery from addiction.

Collaboration
Our success in housing an integrated population depends on creating a community where each individual receives the support and assistance they need to live independent stable lives. Beginning with our first project, The Heights, Broadway Housing Communities has partnered with Center for Urban Community Services to provide social, mental health and employment services to all our tenants.

Tenant Management
Our model is premised on a belief that tenants should be responsible for the quality and character of their own housing. At all our sites, Broadway Housing relies on a front desk management system where tenants themselves provide around the clock coverage of our buildings and address the needs of fellow tenants. Nearly one-quarter of our tenants participate in this management system. Participation in our management is a path to self-confidence, responsibility and leadership, and for many, competitive employment.

Permanent, Stable Housing
The success of our model is measured by Broadway Housing Communities’ low turn over rate. Unlike a shelter or transitional housing, ours is intended as permanent housing. Tenants have their own apartments, hold their own leases and are expected to comply with the terms of that lease. Permanent, decent, affordable housing has proven to be the foundation on which our tenants can begin to rebuild their lives.

Cost Effectiveness
Permanent supportive housing for an individual costs taxpayers $12,500 annually, compared to annual costs of $25,000 for an emergency shelter cot; $60,000 for a prison cell; and $125,000 for a pyschiatric hospital bed.

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Innovation
Supportive Housing has been widely recognized as a practical, cost-effective solution to homelessness for single adults. With the opening of our sixth project, Dorothy Day Apartments, Broadway Housing is now advancing the next innovation in supportive housing, addressing the new face of homelessness. Today children now comprise the largest growing segment of those homeless in New York City. Over the last four years, the number of families residing in the city's shelters has more than doubled. Dorothy Day Apartments is the first deliberate attempt to apply the successful model of supportive housing for single adults to families living in deep poverty. The initiative is designed to address urban poverty in a comprehensive manner and to demonstrate to both the public and private sectors that supportive housing provides families living in poverty with the tools they need to lead productive lives. At Dorothy Day Appartments, social services will be supplemented with enriched and intensive educational services serving infants through adults.