Budget
$260,631.00
Description
Three of our locations are part of our Journeys of Hope program, which provides specialized housing and services for individuals (and their families) in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction. Everyone who lives at one of our Journeys of Hope properties is in recovery. By living together, these residents can draw on one another's strength because being sober--and staying sober--is tough. Each property has a bi-weekly meeting that all residents are required to attend. We also have a full-time addictions counselor to help them along the way. Journeys of Hope is funded through rent and HUD's Supportive Housing Program. Most of these residents were homeless before coming to live at a Journeys of Hope property.
Program Areas Served
None

Budget
$66,000.00
Description
Health Matters grew from a partnership we had with the Vanderbilt School of Nursing. Every spring, nurse practitioner students spent three months at our Mercury Courts location working with formerly homeless residents. This nursing rotation ended with a health fair. We realized, however, that a three-month focus on health wasn't enough. This became painfully obvious in 2006 when, during a meeting with a funder, we showed them a video our residents had produced a couple of years earlier. We saw that many residents featured in the film had since died from preventable causes. We had to do something, and Health Matters was born. We offer a full-time health advocate who: follows up on ambulance calls and ER visits by our residents and helps them to find medical homes; organizes health workshops in partnership with Trevecca Nazarene University's physician assistant program; and enrolls residents in prescription assistance programs and indigent care. August 2012 marked an important day for our Health Matters program because we opened a primary care clinic at Mercury Courts in partnership with Vanderbilt School of Nursing.
Program Areas Served
None

Budget
$6,650,000.00
Description
Nearly 25% of Nashville households pay 50% or more of their income toward housing costs. We help to reduce the housing burden by offering over 1,200 apartments targeted to individuals and families with low-to-moderate incomes. Most of the people living at Urban Housing Solutions earn less than 50% of HUD's area median income; for a single person, that's just $24,000/year. As many as one-third of our residents were homeless before they came to us. Some are mentally ill, HIV positive, physically disabled, and chronically ill. In 2017, we provided affordable housing to over 1,800 men, women, and children. We don't place time limits on how long someone may live at our properties. While most use us as a stepping stone, others choose to stay. Although most of our 31 locations are indistinguishable from for-profit apartment complexes, some have services designed to meet our residents' needs--free transportation, service coordination, computer labs, health fairs, and food distribution.
Program Areas Served
None