Sacramento Self-Help Housing Inc

To transform the lives of those who are chronically homeless and disabled, SSHH provides Permanent Supportive Housing. The goal of SSHH’s Permanent Supportive Housing Program is to meet the needs of the most vulnerable people coming from the streets and emergency shelters. Through a partnership with Sacramento Steps Forward, we eliminate the barriers to housing that keep these individuals on the streets.

Currently, SSHH’s Permanent Supportive Housing Program shelters 200+ recently chronically homeless and disabled Sacramento County residents.

Each client in SSHH’s Permanent Supportive Housing Program is linked with a case manager, who makes weekly house visits, assists with problem resolution, conducts intake assessments and develops client-driven Individual Case Plans (ICP), and provides supportive services to meet the goals in the case plan. Participants are provided referrals based on the barriers identified in ICPs.

SSHH works with households that are homeless or households in risk of becoming homeless. If the household is still housed, SSHH counselor will advocate, provide community resources and if needed, provide dispute resolution. If any fair housing or discrimination concerns arise, they will be referred to the Renters Helpline for further investigation or education. If they are currently homeless, we will provide shelter and long-term housing options.

A Housing Counselor complete an intake assessment to identify barriers, bad credit, evictions and legal concerns along with assets income, rental history etc. During the intake, the housing counselor will provide referrals based on their assessment and other referrals. We educate each household on the housing market, paperwork they need to bring with the application and interview tips. The housing counselor will advocate and make follow up phone calls.

What is HART?
HART (Homeless Assistance Resource Team) is a network of nonprofits dedicated to organizing passionate individuals in support of the local homeless population. Knowing that homelessness transcends municipal lines, SSHH organizes individuals, churches, small businesses, and partner agencies to garner resources for the homeless in communities like Elk Grove, Carmichael, Citrus Heights, and Midtown Sacramento. Though each HART group is their own independent 501(c)3 organization, all groups are founded on the principle that developing a community of support is the best way to assist those most vulnerable.

What is HART?
HART (Homeless Assistance Resource Team) is a network of nonprofits dedicated to organizing passionate individuals in support of the local homeless population. Knowing that homelessness transcends municipal lines, SSHH organizes individuals, churches, small businesses, and partner agencies to garner resources for the local homeless.

Our Needs
SSHH is in need of four, five, and six detached single-family homes in Sacramento County to support our housing programs.

Who We Lease From
Various individual homeowners, brokers, property management companies, and investors.

Benefits of Leasing to SSHH
Landlords are guaranteed rent payments always paid in full. Rents paid are based on Fair Market Rent for the county where the home is located. Rent payments are made in full regardless of the occupancy level.

Your lease is solely with our agency, SSHH. Our Executive Director signs each lease. We have been leasing properties successfully since 2006, and currently, lease over 200 homes.

SSHH is a long term tenant. That means - no turnover costs.

SSHH is responsible for screening all participants of the program and, when needed, assisting the participants with signing and adhering to house rules.

SSHH assumes all responsibility for any participant caused damages.

SSHH has an onsite house leader that lives at the house

Property Related Tenant Services (PRTS) is a new Sacramento County-funded SSHH program. Its focus is on housing individuals and families that are currently living in a place not meant for human habitation and high users of systems resources.


What's the goal of PRTS?

The goal of PRTS is to help individuals and families who lack suitable and sustainable housing, whether they are living in a shelter, couch surfing, a vehicle, the park, the sidewalk, or on the river, to have a safe decent sanitary place to call home. By providing them a home, program participants will be able to work with their case managers to assist in obtaining the help they need to heal their wounds, whether physical or mental, obtain a source of income, gain the necessary skills to take over their own rental lease, and sustainably pay rent, utilities, and other expenses.

We currently have 120+ program participant households who are permanently housed in PRTS.

Sacramento Self Help Housing collaborates with Project Sentinel, Legal Services of Northern California (LSNC), and California Apartment Association (CAA) to provide telephone counseling and dispute resolution services for Unincorporated Sacramento County, City of Sacramento, Rancho Cordova, Elk Grove, and Citrus Heights residents.

The Tenant Advisors will deal directly with concerns regarding landlord-tenant disputes and help refer fair housing issues to the appropriate agency.

The purpose of SSHH's Homeless Outreach Navigation Services is to provide essential services to homeless individuals in Sacramento County. SSHH has been providing Homeless Outreach Navigation Services since 2018, when they first contracted with the Sacramento County Department of Human Assistance. Currently, Homeless Outreach Navigation Services are funded by the County of Sacramento and other areas in the region. In total SSHH employs 10 Homeless Outreach Navigators.

SSHH Homeless Outreach Navigators strive to engage with individuals who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness, engagement in the community, wherever they are, including places not meant for habitation such as homeless encampments or in shelters. Participants are located through street outreach referrals from law enforcement, 2-1-1, Code Enforcement, the HARTs, Food Banks, churches, school district representatives, local businesses, and other community members.