Homeless Leasing Assistance Program

Homeless Leasing Assistance Program

CHN can assist individuals and families get into a home with this grant if they meet the definition below:

• If the individual or family is living on the street, in a place not meant for human habitation, in an emergency homeless shelter, or in transitional housing in which the night before they had resided on the street or in a shelter
• and the head of household is disabled due to a severe and persistent mental illness, developmental disability, has HIV/AIDs and the individual or family is receiving services from a mental health agency.

Oakland County Chronically Homeless Leasing Assistance Program

CHN helps unaccompanied single adults that fit the below definition:

• A chronically homeless person is a single unaccompanied individual that has been homeless for over a year, or has documentation of four homeless episodes in the past three years
• has a severe and persistent mental illness and is receiving services from a mental health agency
• and has a history of substance abuse but has been clean and sober for at least three months.

Macomb County Chronically Homeless Leasing Assistance Program

CHN helps unaccompanied single adults that fit the below definition:

• A chronically Homeless person is a single unaccompanied individual that has been homeless for over a year, or has documentation of four homeless episodes in the past three years.
• has a severe and persistent mental illness and is receiving services from a mental health agency. (Substance abuse diagnosis is not required in Macomb).

If you or someone you know qualifies for one of the above opportunities call Community Housing Network at 248-928-0111 or call Gloria Anderlie the intake specialist directly at 248-269-1370.

Success Stories

One man says, "Community Housing Network saved my life. I was homeless for three years before I got into this program, and all I needed at the time was a little lift .... I got a fresh start, and it was something that I wasn't able to do on my own." Another says, "I was living on the streets for three years addicted to heroin and cocaine. For a year I slept in the backseat of a car at rest stops every night. When I came to CHN I weighed 98 pounds. Since connecting with CHN, I have been clean and sober, gotten my GED and High School Diploma, been attending bible study to become a minister, gotten my driver's license back and bought a car. I've reconnected with my children and grandchildren and see them twice a week. CHN has played the biggest part of change in my life. It has truly been a blessing and I am thankful for all the support of the staff. Honestly, without Community Housing Network, I would not be on this earth today. I don't have to worry about where I am going to lay my head at night."