FrontLine Service makes national news for our role in Cuyahoga County's Housing First Initiative

Novogradac Journal of Tax Credits article "Debt-Free Model Puts Ohio Homeless First" by Teresa GarcuaJanuary 2014 • Volume V • Issue IWhen the 66-unit, $11.5 million Emerald Alliance VIII development breaks ground in Cleveland in fall 2014, the Cuyahoga County Housing First Initiative (Housing First) will be one step closer to its goal of building 1,271 units of permanent supportive housing for the county’s chronically homeless — defined as disabled individuals who have been continuously homeless for more than a year or homeless four times or more in three years. Housing First partners say that for the daily cost of $39 per resident, the initiative’s debt-free model has helped reduce chronic homelessness in Cuyahoga County by 65 percent since the program’s first property opened in 2006.  READ FULL ARTICLE