Grantee Name
Corporation for Supportive Housing
Funding Area
Primary Care
Publication Date
June 2016
Grant Amount
$40,000
Grant Date:
January 2015–December 2015
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Supportive housing—housing coupled with appropriate individual-based services—is an innovative and cost-effective model of care designed to provide an integrated solution for both housing and health care needs.
From 2012–2015, the New York State Department of Health invested more than $260 million of Medicaid State savings into supportive housing programs targeted at New York’s high-cost Medicaid members. However, the allocation and determination of these funds were largely based off of key stakeholder assumptions of where the greatest needs lie, but not necessarily based on data—at the time, no statewide centralized clearinghouse of data on the homeless population existed. To create a uniform, non-duplicative data system to estimate supportive housing needs at the regional and statewide level, NYHealth awarded the Corporation for Supportive Housing a grant to conduct an assessment of homelessness in different geographic areas of New York State. The data analyzed would allow the State to make educated decisions when determining supportive housing funding allocations and better match resources to need.