The article examines the Lenniger Residences in the Bronx, home to about 60 formerly homeless individuals dealing with mental illness. It highlights the success of permanent supportive housing as a model to combat chronic homelessness. Over the past four years, 97% of residents have either remained in the housing or transitioned to other stable arrangements. This initiative, led by the Center for Urban Community Services, emphasizes the importance of sustained support and rehabilitation for a vulnerable population, demonstrating how targeted interventions can yield positive living conditions for those in need.
The main goal of permanent supportive housing is to keep people who have been chronically homeless out of homelessness, and from what we saw at the Lenniger, it does a great job of that.
Over the last four years at the Lenniger, 97 percent of the supportive housing residents... have either remained there or moved to other stable housing.
About half the people who moved in when the Lenniger opened in 2011 are still living there.
My colleague Andy Newman... spent more than a year talking with residents and workers at the Lenniger.
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