Permanent Supportive Housing for Chronically Homeless (SHP)

 

Tennessee Homeless Solutions operates a Supportive Housing Program for chronically homeless individuals and families in Henry, Stewart, Houston, Humphreys, Henderson, Decatur, and Hardin counties. With this program we offer permanent, safe, and affordable housing.

 

How does is work?

The Supportive Housing Program is designed to develop supportive housing and services that will allow a chronically disabled homeless person to live as independently as possible. Eligible applicants are States, units of local government, other governmental entities such as PHAs, and private nonprofits.

 

Assistance in the Supportive Housing Program is provided to help homeless persons meet three overall goals:

 

Achieve residential stability,

Increase their skill levels and/or incomes, and

Obtain greater self-determination (i.e., more influence over decisions that affect their lives).

 

Specific performance measures for each of these three goals must be established based on the needs and characteristics of the homeless population to be served. Grant recipients are required to monitor their clients' progress in meeting their performance measures on an ongoing basis. In addition to record keeping and evaluation that grantees may conduct for their own purposes, HUD requires record keeping and annual progress reports. The annual progress report includes questions that ask grantees to report on their progress in meeting performance measures. Grantees are expected to make changes in their program or adjust performance measures in response to ongoing evaluation of their progress.