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37,076 69,732 212 10,782 37,076 69,732 103,157 Diagnosed Diagnosed Diagnosed Diagnosed Diagnosed Diagnosed Diagnosed 11,832 23,605 138 4,260 11,832 23,605 34,273 Living with Living with Living with Living with Living with Living with Living with AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS

20 53 Housing Works Scattered-Site Units in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Scattered-Site Units Brooklyn throughout the Bronx Builds Housing Housing Works has East 9th Street Floorplan worked to end the dual Apr: Intake Program Jul: Scattered-Site crises of homelessness Housing Works Housing Program and HIV/AIDS since 1990 Expands to East 9th Street Scattered-Site Brooklyn Facility Housing Housing Feb 1: The Bronx

Housing Works Opportunities for Program in Defunded SRO Persons with AIDS Manhattan Jul: First Thrift Oct: Land in Man- (Single-Room Oc- Construction event (HOPWA) Store hattan cupancy) Program The West Village The Works Providers Group/ Independent Tuberculosis Health Center Catering New York City Supportive Supportive Housing Movement Agreement to Living Pro-grams Second Life Needle Scattered-Site HIV/AIDS Services Housing House Homeless (ILP) in Manhat- Job Training Exchange Housing Administration Housing First and Network of New United States Mentally Ill tan and Brooklyn Program (JTP) The Key Program Program Bookstore Cafe Local Law 49 Callahan v. Carey (HASA) Harm Reduction Apr: ACT UP York (SHNNY) New York State New York City 1981 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 AIDS Diagnoses and Persons Living with HIV/AIDS by Year in New York City

New York City AIDS Diagnoses Living Room: Housing Works Builds Housing 1950s–1980s 1985 anger at the governmental indifference permanent and transitional housing Jul: First Thrift Store off the street “grows harder every Persons Living with AIDS is a space to explore the housing and to the AIDS epidemic. for homeless mentally ill people in New Deemed an “upscale boutique” by the day as a result of the City’s policies of Persons Living with HIV/AIDS related services created by Housing Supportive Housing Movement New York City HIV/AIDS Services York City. New York Times, the thrift store at 136 issuing vouchers instead of security Source: New York City HIV/AIDS Works for homeless individuals and Emerges 1, 2 Administration (HASA) 4, 5 1988 West 18th Street was the organization’s deposits and the City’s inability to make Annual Surveillance Statistics, New families living with HIV/AIDS in New The supportive housing movement New York City established HASA, 1991 single largest source of private income. timely rental payments, not to mention York City Department of Health and York City. Since 1990 we have built over emerged to address increasing formerly the Division of AIDS Services SRO (Single-Room Occupancy) By 2012, Housing Works had twelve the absolute havoc the massive budget Mental Hygiene 170 units of permanent and transitional homelessness and the inadequate and Income Support, in response to the Providers Group/Supportive Housing Apr: Intake Program thrift shops that earned approximately cuts have wreaked on the Human housing, complemented by legal and substandard housing available to AIDS epidemic, to provide a range of Network of New York (SHNNY) 8 Located at 130 Crosby Street in $14 million a year. Resources Administration.” aid, medical care, counseling, harm- vulnerable populations in the services to low-income people living This coalition of supportive housing Manhattan, the Intake Program was reduction, and a job training program. United States. Combining indepen- with HIV/AIDS. HASA rental vouchers providers formed around shared the first step toward moving homeless Second Life Job Training Needle Exchange Program Living Room is a full-scale replica of one dent, affordable housing with social and allow homeless, very low-income New issues related to funding, tenant- people with HIV/AIDS off the streets— Program (JTP) “We began the needle exchange of our many supportive-housing units medical services, supportive housing Yorkers with AIDS to enter private, engagement, and building management featuring a triage team, education and “[I am a] mother of two beautiful program at Housing Works as part throughout the five boroughs. would become the model system for transitional or permanent supportive of supportive housing in New York prevention programs, and referrals children and a proud graduate of of implementing a philosophy of Housing Works. housing, such as that operated by City. Housing Works would later join for new Housing Works clients to one Housing Works’ Job Training Program, harm reduction. Instead of exercising Housing Works emerged out of the Housing Works, and bypass the general this network, known since 1996 as the of three avenues for securing housing better known as ‘Second Life.’ After negative judgment about drug users direct-action group ACT UP (AIDS Housing options available to at-risk shelter system. These vouchers are Supportive Housing Network of New during the organization’s early years: eight long months, I finally did it! What and barring them from services, we Coalition to Unleash Power) twenty- populations have evolved over time, not available for people with HIV. York (SHNNY), when the organization Scattered-Site Housing Program, did it take? Hard work, determination, work with them in a way that allows two years ago. But our model is even following medical breakthroughs, HASA currently makes thousands of expanded to New York State. The Independent Living Program, or referral and a great support system made them to set their own pace. Needle further rooted in social movement economic and political changes, emergency housing placements a network is now a powerful advocacy to other non-governmental agencies in up of the director, my job counselor, exchange is a concrete manifestation history—the supportive housing and shifts in public opinion on month. group comprising over 200 nonprofit New York City. instructors, case manager, supervisor of our belief that clients can be movement of the 1960s sought to what constitute acceptable living supportive housing developers and and great peers.” responsible, can act to reduce the create affordable housing coupled with standards. The availability in the 1986 providers. Scattered-Site Housing Program in –Rosa Gonzalez, The Key, Winter 1995 spread of HIV, and can move forward medical and social services. 1950s of psychotropic drugs led to Manhattan Housing Works transitioned hundreds into drug treatment when they’re the deinstitutionalization of people Housing First and Harm 1990 Housing Works leased apartments of clients into staff in the 1990s through ready.” Throughout its history, Housing Works with psychiatric disorders. This shift, Reduction 6, 7 in different buildings—as opposed to classes in maintenance and repair, –Keith D. Cylar, The Key, Spring 1994 has weathered periods of intense along with the closing of single- Traditional homeless shelters often Housing Works within one centralized building—for math, clerical skills, communications political hostility or indifference by room occupancy hotels (SROs) and required people to be alcohol and Fewer than 350 units of housing existed clients who met the clinical diagnosis and self-esteem, harm reduction, 1995 offering care and gracious hospitality to other affordable housing options, the drug free to be eligible for housing. for the estimated 13,000 homeless of AIDS as defined by the Center for computer technology, GED, and English communities in need. In 1993 Housing emergence of HIV/AIDS, and a decrease In reaction to these policies, which people living with HIV/AIDS in New Disease Control in Manhattan’s Lower as a Second Language. Tuberculosis Scattered-Site Works introduced The Key, a newsletter in government benefits, led to a surge effectively screened out most of the York City. In response, members of the East Side, a neighborhood highly Housing Program that boldly proclaimed, “Housing is the in homelessness across the United chronically homeless, early HIV/AIDS ACT UP housing committee Keith D. affected by the epidemic. 1993 Housing Works leased 25 apartments key to eliminating homelessness and States in the 1980s. As policy makers advocates developed complementary Cylar, Charles King, Eric Sawyer, and and established relationships with ending the neglect of people with HIV.” in the late 1980s began to see value “housing first” and “harm reduction” Virginia Shubert founded Housing Independent Living Programs (ILP) in The Key Bellevue and St. Vincent’s Hospitals in the supportive housing movement, approaches to address theinterrelated Works with the slogan “Demand Manhattan and Brooklyn “The key to eliminating homelessness as part of an agency-wide effort Today, Housing Works views housing they established government funding epidemics of HIV/AIDS, drug use, and Housing for Homeless People Living The first program in New York City to and ending the neglect of people with to address the needs of homeless as the key to end AIDS—it unlocks programs to allow agencies like infectious diseases. “Housing first” with AIDS & HIV.” house and provide case-management HIV is in your hands,” contended the individuals living with HIV/AIDS and opportunities. It’s not over yet: the Housing Works to develop and operate. makes shelter an immediate goal, services to people who did not meet the inaugural issue of Housing Works tuberculosis when discharged from organization proposes to create with services following, while “harm Housing Opportunities for clinical diagnosis of AIDS as defined by quarterly newsletter The Key. hospitals. another 330 units for homeless 1981 reduction” strategies, such as needle Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) 9, 10 the Center for Disease Control. individuals living with HIV/AIDS by exchanges, aim to reduce harm to The United States Department of In the early 1990s, Housing Works 1994 1996 2016. Callahan v. Carey 3 individual and community health, Housing and Urban Development (HUD) would lease over 25 apartments from This class action lawsuit established without requiring abstinence. These established the HOPWA program to private landlords for clients. Feb 1: The Bronx The West Village Health Center Text by Gavin Browning and the legal right to emergency shelter strategies became guiding principles fund housing, social services, program Now with 60 apartments in Brooklyn, Housing Works rented and renovated Karen Kubey for New York State’s homeless. for Housing Works and would later be planning, and development costs for 1992 Housing Works leased 53 apartments this facility at 320 West 13th Street to Graphic Design by MTWTF Following this ruling, New York City adopted as government policy. housing for people living with AIDS. in the Bronx—34 for its Scattered- offer primary care, case management, policy specifies that homeless persons Housing Works used this funding Jul: Scattered-Site Housing Site Housing Program, and 19 for its and other services to clients. with HIV/AIDS must be given non- 1987 in the development of its Women’s Program Expands to Brooklyn Independent Living Program. emergency housing within 24 hours of Transitional Housing Program. Housing Works followed the geography Bookstore Cafe the client’s request. Apr: ACT UP of the epidemic by leasing 20 Oct: Land in Manhattan 12 “Imagine sipping cappuccino in a The direct action group ACT UP (AIDS Agreement to House Homeless apartments in the Bedford-Stuyvesant Housing Works purchased land at pleasant cafe while curled up on a sofa Coalition to Unleash Power) was Mentally Ill 11 section of Brooklyn. 743–749 East 9th Street in Manhattan reading a book—and knowing it’s all for founded at a meeting at the Gay and This joint effort of New York State and for a new facility, noting in their Annual a good cause. Such a setting will soon Lesbian Center in Manhattan out of New York City created 3,615 units of Report that the task of moving people come to life as Housing Works opens Housing Works---is a Healing Community vol---4 page---015 The Key--Community Newsletter vol---4 page--016

127,840 148,036 159,610 168,432 Diagnosed Diagnosed127,840 Diagnosed Diagnosed Diagnosed 81,063 97,359 104,415 110,736 Living with HIV/AIDS Living with81,063 HIV/AIDS Living with HIV/AIDS Living with HIV/AIDS Living with HIV/AIDS 47,207 57,364 62,540 66,419 Living with AIDS Living47,207 with AIDS Living with AIDS Living with AIDS Living with AIDS

30 Scattered-Site Units in East New York, 20 Bushwick, Bedford- Scattered-Site Units Stuyvesant, Crown in St. George, Heights, and East Staten Island (SIHP) Flatbush, Brooklyn (TTHP)

Apr: East New York Expands

2605–2609 Pitkin Avenue Stand Up Harlem House Women’s Transitional The Claremont Residence 874 Jefferson Avenue Housing Program (WTHP) 874 Jefferson Housing Works Avenue Sues The Keith D. Cylar House Health HIV Case Reporting Center Equal Access to East New York begins in New York State 2605–2609 Pitkin Housing in HUD Community Avenue Programs, Re- Health Care Downtown gardless of Sexual Facility Housing Works New York City Brooklyn Health Orientation or Wins Settles Center Gender Identity Gotham Assets New York City Transgender AIDS Housing Agreement to Women’s Tran- Transitional Agreement to Staten Island Women’s Tran- HIV/AIDS Services Network House Homeless sitional Housing The New Housing Housing Program House Homeless Housing Program Stand Up Harlem sitional Housing The Claremont Administration 330 Housing (NYCAHN) Mentally Ill II Program (WTHP) Marketplace (TTHP) Mentally Ill III (SIHP) House Program (WTHP) Residence (HASA) Caseload Works Units

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Sources: 19. Supportive Housing Network of New York its Used Book Cafe in the heart of SoHo protests, mocking placards and critical 2001 New York City Settles 20 2008 874 Jefferson Avenue 1. Hannigan, Tony and Wagner, Suzanne, Center for 20. Dwyer, Jim. “City to Pay AIDS Group in at 128 Crosby Street,” announced the news releases.” In response to a $4.8 million settlement Housing Works will renovate and open Urban Community Services and Corporation for Settlement,” New York Times, May 27, 2005. Fall/Winter 1995 issue of The Key. The Women’s Transitional Housing with New York City in Housing Works’ Stand Up Harlem House this 6,100 square foot townhouse in the Supportive Housing (2003). History and Principles of 21. Supportive Housing Network of New York store would be a “complete vindication East New York Community Health Care Program (WTHP) favor, Housing Works CEO Charles King Housing Works renovated three Harlem Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn Supportive Housing in Developing the “Support” in Housing Works from those naysayers who fear that Facility WHTP helps single women living with said, “I’m not sure people appreciate brownstones that were originally built in August 2012. It will feature twelve Supportive Housing. 22. Bellafante, Gina. “A Vision of a Grim Past and a service programs like those operated The 33,000 square foot facility at 2640 HIV/AIDS who have been released from how much the Giuliani administration in the 1880s. The 6,800 square-foot units for single adults living with HIV/ 2. Secret, Mosi. “Court Upends 9-Year Fight on Hopeful Future,” New York Times, April 8, 2012. by Housing Works would have a Pitkin Avenue in the East New York the correctional system within the past attempted to silence dissenting voices, brownstone at 143–145 West 130th AIDS. Housing Mentally Ill,” New York Times, April 6, 2012 23. United States Department of Housing and Urban negative impact on the presence of the section of Brooklyn offers medical and 24 hours. in particular in communities that relied Street features eleven units, a common Housing Works Development neighborhood.” dental care, a cafeteria, counseling, and on city funds to service needy people…I area, and a backyard for single adults Equal Access to Housing in 3. Callahan v. Carey, No. 79-42582 (Sup. Ct. N.Y. 24. Housing Works other services in a neighborhood hard- 2002 think Housing Works was used as an living with HIV/AIDS. The 3,000 square- HUD Programs, Regardless of Sexual County, Cot. 18, 1979). Accessed via ESCR-net.org. 25. Housing Works 1997 hit by the epidemic. It has since become example to let other organizations foot brownstone at 162 West 130th Orientation or Gender Identity 23, 24 4. New York City AIDS Housing Network. Too Much a Federally Qualified Health Center Gotham Assets know what would happen to them Street features two two-bedroom and Following evidence suggesting that for Too Little for Too Long: Emergency Housing for East 9th Street Facility (FQHC) that serves the general public. Housing Works established if they advocated on behalf of their two three-bedroom units for families lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Homeless New Yorkers Living with AIDS: Who’s Housing Works’ first capital project, the Gotham Assets, a commercial property clients.” with at least one parent living with individuals were being excluded from Paying the Price? 19,000 square-foot housing and health New York City AIDS Housing development and management HIV/AIDS. private housing, the US Department of 5. Shubert, Virginia, et. Al. An Assessment of the care facility features 36 units for single Network (NYCAHN) 16 company that offers job training and Agreement to House Homeless Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Housing Needs of Persons with HIV/AIDS: New York adults living with HIV/AIDS, with a Supported by a 1998 grant from the placement for Housing Works clients. Mentally Ill III 21 2009 implemented policy to “ensure that its City Eligible Metropolitan Statistical Area, Final cafeteria and day-treatment center. New York City AIDS Fund, NYCAHN The third of its kind, this New York City/ core programs are open to all eligible Report. University of Pennsylvania: 2004. formed to address HIV/AIDS in the The New Housing Marketplace 19 New York State agreement included Women’s Transitional Housing individuals and families regardless of 6. Shubert, Virginia, et. al. An Assessment of the Defunded context of “race, gender, and economic Making commitments to fund the creation of 9,000 new units of Program (WTHP sexual orientation, gender identity, or Housing Needs of Persons with HIV/AIDS: New York Citing inaccurate accounting, Mayor inequalities.” Housing Works was affordable and supportive housing and supportive housing over the next ten WTHP finds a home: a renovated marital status.” City Eligible Metropolitan Statistical Area, Final Rudolph Giuliani withdrew $6.5 million instrumental in the founding of services, Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s years, setting aside specific funding for 6,720 square-foot townhouse at 454 Report. University of Pennsylvania: 2004. worth of New York City government NYCAHN, which in 2010 was renamed plan aimed to reduce homelessness housing people with AIDS. NY/NY III Lexington Avenue in the Bedford- HIV/AIDS Services Administration 7. Shubert, Virginia and Hombs, Mary Ellen. “Housing contracts to Housing Works. VOCAL-NY (Voices Of Community by two-thirds by 2009. The plan provided operating funding for Housing Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, (HASA) Caseload 25 Works: Opportunities for Homeless Persons.” Activists & Leaders) to reflect the included many of the strategies Works’ Stand Up Harlem House and featuring 20 units for single women As of February 2012, HASA’s caseload Clearinghouse Review: November/December, 1995. The Works Catering larger range of constituencies now proposed in SHNNY’s Blueprint to its new Jefferson Avenue Residence in living with HIV/AIDS who have been numbered just over 32,000 homeless 8. Supportive Housing Network of New York Housing Works established The Works, represented by the organization. End Homelessness in New York City, Brooklyn. released from the correctional system and very low-income New Yorkers with 9. United States Department of Housing and Urban a commercial catering company trains but advocates for the homeless have within the past 24 hours. AIDS. Critics of HASA, including Housing Development and hires clients to cater events at the 1999 criticized it for not being adequately 2006 Works, believe that HASA has not 10. Housing Works Bookstore Cafe and beyond. robust. 2010 done enough to address the needs of 11. Hannigan, Tony and Wagner, Suzanne, Center Housing Works Wins 17 The Keith D. Cylar House Health homeless and very low-income people for Urban Community Services and Corporation for Local Law 49 13, 14 US District Judge Allen Schwartz 2004 Center The Claremont Residence with HIV/AIDS in New York City. Supportive Housing (2003). History and Principles of New York City Local Law 49 requires found that city officials acted out of The East 9th Street Facility—deemed a Housing Works acquired an established Supportive Housing in Developing the “Support” in permanent and temporary housing “retaliatory intent” against Housing Transgender Transitional Housing “special project of national significance” multifamily, rehabilitated 19,260 square Next Steps Supportive Housing. for homeless people to be “medically Works for its criticism of Mayor Program (TTHP) by the US Department of Housing and foot property at 415 Claremont Parkway 12. Housing Works, Inc. Annual Report, Fiscal Year appropriate,” and goes beyond Mixon Giuliani’s policies on HIV Housing Works established ten Urban Development—was renamed in in the Bronx. Although not developed 330 Housing Works Units 1995, page 13. v. Grinker to codify HASA’s existence. and AIDS. initial scattered-site apartments honor of activist and Housing Works for individuals living with HIV/AIDS Housing Works plans to begin 13. New York City AIDS Housing Network. Too Much Addressing populations with HIV/AIDS, for transgender and gender-variant founder Keith D. Cylar. specifically, The Claremont Residence’s development on 330 additional units of for Too Little for Too Long: Emergency Housing for housing must be “suitable for persons Agreement to House Homeless individuals living with HIV/AIDS in the 18 two-bedroom units will be allocated housing in the next five years, bringing Homeless New Yorkers Living with AIDS: Who’s with severely compromised immune Mentally Ill II 18 East New York, Bushwick, Bedford- Downtown Brooklyn Health Center to homeless families living with HIV/ the organization’s total to 500. Paying the Price? systems” and including, but not limited More modest than the first New York/ Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, and Housing Works renovated this facility AIDS as the units become available. 14. Housing Works to, “individual refrigerated food and New York agreement, this effort East Flatbush sections of Brooklyn. at 57 Willoughby Street to offer medical 15. Barry, Dan. “Combative AIDS Group Says City Cut medicine storage and adequate committed government funding for The organization would acquire 20 and dental care, job training, and other 2012 Financing Out of Spite,” New York Times, April 12, bathroom facilities” with locking doors. 1,500 units of permanent supportive additional TTHP apartments in the services for clients. 1998 Housing Works facilities far exceed housing. New York City and State following years. Apr: East New York Expands 22 16. Supportive Housing Network of New York these requirements. split construction costs evenly, with Staten Island Housing Program With $541,000 in federal funds from Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders New York State funding services and 2005 (SIHP) the Affordable Care Act, the expanded 17. Associated Press. “Judge: NYC Punished AIDS 1998 operating costs. Housing Works established 20 East New York Community Health Care Service,” November 13, 1999. 2605–2609 Pitkin Avenue scattered-site apartments for single Facility will “be able to see more than 18. Hannigan, Tony and Wagner, Suzanne, Center Housing Works Sues 15 Housing Works renovated and opened adults living with HIV/AIDS in the St. twice as many primary-care patients a for Urban Community Services and Corporation for The organization claimed that this 2,000 square-foot townhouse in George section of Staten Island. year—about 2,600—approximately 80 Supportive Housing (2003). History and Principles of Mayor Giuliani’s defunding was out the East New York section of Brooklyn percent of whom are homeless.” Supportive Housing in Developing the “Support” in of retaliation “for years of furious in 2005. Supportive Housing.