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Agency Description
Community Housing Partnership (CHP) is a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization that develops and operates permanent housing for formerly homeless people with on-site support services, job training, leadership development and employment opportunities.
Homelessness is a systemic crisis that deeply impacts our community. In San Francisco alone, there are an estimated 7,000 to 12,000 people sleeping on the streets, in cars and other unsuitable places, or in shelters every night. This crisis is devastating to the people who endure it and affects the quality of life of everyone in our city. It requires a permanent, integrated solution designed by the people who have first-hand knowledge of the issue.
Formed in 1990 by people who had been homeless, advocates for the homeless and affordable housing developers, CHP's model was created to help people overcome homelessness, permanently. Over the years, our model has proven highly successful and is nationally and internationally recognized.
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Goals
· Build and operate high quality affordable housing with on-site support services
· Partner with our tenants to ensure that over 97 percent retain permanent housing
· Invest in employment programs so at least 75 pecent of tenants seeking jobs find work
· Offer housing and services to nearly all of the people we screen
· Hire so that more than 50 percent of our staff members are formerly homeless people
· Develop new leaders by involving tenants and line staff in all aspects of the work we do
· Organize our tenants, staff and community to promote policies that will end homelessness
Our tenants are formerly homeless individuals as well as families with children. People served by CHP range in age from infants to elders, are of all races and ethnicities, and come from a diversity of linguistic and socio-economic backgrounds. All people served by CHP are extremely low-income. While many of the people we serve face extraordinary barriers to housing stability, less than two percent of the people we serve return to homelessness.
As of July 2008, CHP employs over 165 people, with an annual operating budget of approximately $11.5 million. CHP owns, manages and/or provides services at 10 properties with 674 units of housing for formerly homeless adults and families. We are developing 3 new housing sites with a total of 250 apartments.
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