Almost Home Transitional Housing Program

Our goal is to assist our clients in obtaining sustainable affordable housing.

In the area of homeless prevention we work with clients to teach them money management and to steer them in the direction of becoming debt free and work within a budget. We also refer them to other agencies and places of employment to improve their income levels.

In the area of homeless recovery we qualify clients who are more apt to achieve sustainable affordable housing as a result of their work history, their ability to work, and lack of criminal activity which may prevent them from working.

In working with clients who do not qualify within the aforementioned categories we work with them to locate public housing, group homes, and treatment centers as applicable to their needs.

We have an office location furnished by the County free of charge. We have a transitional house which handles two families at at time in which we require the client to pay a 1/3 of the utilities as well as escrow 10% savings which is provided to the client as they exit the program.

The board-of-directors for Almost Home Transitional Housing Program raised the money to purchase the existing transitional house debt free and has raised the money annually to maintain the facility as well as raise monies to prevent homelessness. There are always a number of families applying for the transitional house vacancy leaving an average of 3 to 4 families not served. in addition to families there are approximately 12 people in the immediate area and approximately 50 county wide who are living out on the streets for which we hope to provide a group home. We have some hurdles to get over with planning and zoning which has included homelessness within the verbiage for group homes. Once the third reading has been accepted in January we will be able to move towards the purchase of a targeted building with an asking price of $78k which will require additional upgrades to meet the building codes. Almost Home has an ongoing campaign to purchase additional real estate to meet the growing needs of homelessness and to address the lack of affordable housing. Almost Home is currently working with another non-profit organization which would like to transfer its senior citizens homes to Almost Home. Almost Home will incur a $40k debt with the transfer of the properties.