NCCC Supportive Housing Team

National City's Supportive Housing Team is actively exploring options for NCCC's participation in the new citywide effort to find or build appropriate supportive housing units for homeless people in the District of Columbia. 

Supportive housing gets people off the streets or out of shelters and into their own homes.  The crucial difference between affordable housing and supportive housing is that the support services that people might need to get healthy and stay housed are located right on the premises and come as part of the supportive housing package.  These services would include help with medical and mental health, substance abuse, joblessness, child care, assistance in getting government aid, etc.  The supportive housing model has been highly success in many cities, including New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco.

In 2001, NCCC began work on a plan to build supportive housing for homeless women and children.  Although our effort to "go it alone" stalled after 2003, we see new opportunities to partner with other churches and the Washington Interfaith Network.  We hope to take advantage of the upsurge of interest and material support in the city to make housing for the homeless a reality.

Anyone interested in joining this effort should contact Judy Lotz or Susan Baughman.  Other members of the Supportive Housing Team are Rick Bahr, Ann Flowers, Ann Neeriemer, Loretta Tate, Will Lang, Verdia Haywood, and Dr. Stephen Gentle.