Nestquest Houston Inc

NestQuest aims to enable Housing Choice Vouchers to lease across Houston, without fear of discrimination, eviction, or extortion. NestQuest aims to provide low income families with access to high ranking schools, which are traditionally located in high income neighborhoods. NestQuest aims to provide financial assistance towards rent to low income single moms, in order to enable them to best support their children. NestQuest aims to enable low income single moms to have less fear of paying rent, and more control of their financials.
NestQuest aims to reduce segregation in schools based upon income.
Instability in housing, causes instability in education, which in turn causes an unpredictable future for many children and youths. NestQuest provide stability through Housing, ensuring children and youths are zoned to high ranking schools, which increases educational and employment opportunities and provides health advantages.

NestQuest comes into play by providing access to suitable properties to HCVP recipients. NestQuest works solely with HCVP recipients in the hope of assisting their relocation for the betterment of their child's education. NestQuest develops partnerships with landlords, property managers and other housing organizations, in order to provide low income single moms with access to the best homes, schools and communities in Houston.
NestQuest provides access to employment opportunities for heads of household.
NestQuest provides rent, utility and food assistance to prevent poverty, hunger and financial burdens on single moms.

NestQuest's team are well positioned to achieve its mission. Our dedicated team enables our beneficiaries to thrive in great homes and excellent schools.
Our team has almost 10 years of experience within the Housing Authority system.
Our team has over 10 years of fundraising experience.
Our team has dedicated case managers who support our beneficiaries and provide additional resources in their time of need.

In operation since 2017, NestQuest has placed 40+ families in homes within the program and over 100 children were transferred from under performing schools to A/B graded schools. Our initial pilot focused on 10 families, and has grown at a great sustainable pace. 30 apartment complexes have agreed to participate in the NestQuest Program. We currently partner with 6 of the largest property management companies in Houston who have implemented agreements with NestQuest which ensure our families have access to suitable housing, along with the choice and opportunity to relocate.

In recent months we have been overwhelmed by increased requests from our families, and from new families attempting to join our program. We are working 24/7 to provide support to the families on our program and in on-boarding new families each and every day. We currently need to provide assistance to the families on our program and the influx of new families who are in need of our help. We have received an increase in requests for assistance of 75% for our current families. New prospective families have increased by 86% based upon the last 3 years of operation - we are speechless by the need of our community and want to provide them with the best support possible. We estimate we will take on 15 new families within the next 30 days, we typically operate at 3 new families every 30 days; this shows a 400% increase in qualifying families who we are needing to support in the near future.

As we make our way through the last half of 2020, we will continue to support those families and children currently on our roster. Each family is in need of food, rent and utility assistance; we are striving to continue to fulfill these requirements. We want to continue to qualify new families and provide support to them as our cities needs grow. More people have requested unemployment support; every family on our program has been so long term and required this support prior to Covid-19. Now more than ever our families are in desperate need of our support.