Resources

Testimony

• Network testimony to New York City Council on proposed HASA cuts in 2010-11 City Budget, June 7, 2010; testimony from Harlem United, Housing and Services, Inc, and Lantern Group
• Network testifies at NYC Housing and Buildings Committee hearing on 2010-11 budget.
• Network testifies on proposed HASA cuts and 'contingency' cuts in the NYC budget at the March 8th City Council General Welfare Committee hearing.
• Network testifies on SRO Support Services and SHFYA cuts at joint Senate-Assembly hearings on Social Services, Mental Health, Housing, and Health. Network members, tenants and allies testify on impacts of cuts at February State Budget hearings: Concern, HSI, CUCS (Tenant WP), CUCS (Tenant SM), HAC, HATAS, Jericho, New Destiny, Common Ground, CSH.
• Network, Catholic Charities, Binghamton YWCA and Westhab testify in December 2009 on cuts to SRO Support Services
• Testimony to New York State Assembly on the Impact of 2009-10 State Budget on OTDA Programs, Dec. 15, 2009
• Comments on lengthening terms of human service contracts, Mayor's Office of Contract Services June 18,2009
• Testimony to New YorkCity Counctil General Welfare Committee on HRA budget/HASA cuts May 26, 2009
• Testimony to City Council about proposed cuts in services for people living with HIV/ AIDS along with Project Renewal's Morgan Pepper and Holland House tenant Arron Smith, March 23, 2009.
• Testimony to the City Department of Buildings on new challenge policy, March 6, 2009
• Testimony to New York State Senate and Assembly
  on FY 2008-2009 Executive Budget for Housing
  January 29, 2009
• Testimony to City Council on NY/NY III, January 22, 2009
• Testimony to the Joint Assembly Senate Committee on Human Services Hearing on 2009-2010 Executive Budget, January 14, 2009

Reports/Policy Recommendations/Advocacy Materials

• Breaking the Cycle: Re-Entry Supportive Housing and Rockefeller Drug Law Reform November 2009
• Supportive Housing Reduces Spending on Services
• Community Benefits Report 2009
• Cost Analysis of Family in Supportive Housing Before and After Placement 2009
• Advocacy Piece on Adult Homes Reform placed in the Albany Capitol 2009
• Recommendations to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) on the effect proposed accounting rule changes would have on Federal Home Loan Bank lending, an important source of loans for affordable housing development
• Network's recommendations on spending Stimulus Bill funds
• SHNNY Report on DHCR Unified Funding 2008
• Western New York Guide to Essential State and Federal Funding for Supportive Housing
• Refining the Process: Suggestions for the Supportive Housing Section 8 Program August, 2007
• An Extraordinary Achievement, An Enormous Challenge, Implementing the New York New York III Agreement, 2006 report and appendices.
• A Snapshot of Supportive Housing in New York State: Key Findings from the 2006 Supportive Housing Population Survey, 2006
• Supportive and Service-Enriched Housing for Families, Presented by the Task Force on Housing and Services for Families, 2003
• Guide to Supportive Housing Resources, 2005
• 2010-11 State Budget advocacy piece - SRO Support Services
• 2010-11 State Budget advocacy piece - SHFYA
• Supportive Housing Cost-Effectiveness one-pager
• list of supportive housing residences in New York City

The Network's new OMH-funded video,

Good Housing. Good Neighbors.