Permanent Supportive Housing Program

Permanent Supportive Housing is a proven solution to homelessness for the most vulnerable chronically homeless people. It pairs housing with case management and supportive services.

Our goal is to help homeless people move from the streets and shelters and into permanent housing. Our ability to provide you support depends on you meeting eligibility standards and those seeking assistance are asked to answer basic eligibility questions to see if we can help.

Required to Enter

1. Disability

2. Meet HUD’s chronically homeless definitions:

   The definition of chronically homeless is:

   • A homeless individual with a disability as defined in section 401(9) of the McKinney-Vento Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11360(9)), who:

     • Lives in a place not meant for human habitation, a safe haven, or in an emergency shelter, and

     • Has been homeless and living as described for at least 12 months* or on at least 4 separate occasions in the last 3 years, as long as the combined occasions equal at least 12 months and each break in homelessness separating the occasions included at least 7 consecutive nights of not living as described.

   • An individual who has been residing in an institutional care facility for less, including jail, substance abuse or mental health treatment facility, hospital, or other similar facility, for fewer than 90 days and met all of the criteria of this definition before entering that facility**; or

   • A family with an adult head of household (or, if there is no adult in the family, a minor head of household) who meets all of the criteria of this definition, including a family whose composition has fluctuated while the head of household has been homeless.

Permanent Supportive Housing is an intervention that combines affordable housing assistance with voluntary support services to address the needs of chronically homeless people. The services are designed to build independent living, tenancy skills, and connect people with community-based healthcare, treatment, and employment services.

To see if you qualify for our program, speak with one of our staff members at (559) 583-9300 and ask to speak to someone in the HUD Housing Program.