Homeless Prevention

Homeless Prevention offers eligible individuals and families within Oakland County rental assistance to prevent a household from becoming literally homeless. This is accompanied with strength-based, housing case management services designed to help you maintain and or obtain housing.

What Does The Program Offer?

Homeless Prevention offers eligible individuals and families within Oakland County rental assistance to prevent a household from becoming literally homeless. This is accompanied with strength-based, housing case management services designed to help you maintain and or obtain housing.

Our homeless prevention services help with either rental arrears assistance or with relocation services in an effort to keep you from becoming homeless as defined by HUD.

Funding for our Rapid Rehousing programs comes from Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA) Emergency Solutions Grant and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Emergency Solutions Grant.

Why Homeless Prevention?

  • It is instrumental in helping individuals and families stay housed when unforeseen circumstances happen in life.
  • Intervening in a housing crisis as soon as possible helps lower the costs and improve successful outcomes for preventing homelessness.
  • Our communities have limited housing availability and homeless prevention helps to preserve housing units.

Who Is Eligible?

Below are some of the basic eligibility requirements for our Homeless Prevention programs.

Note: There may be other eligibility requirements that are not listed. To find out if you qualify, please complete our form here.

Applicants must:

  • Be a resident of Oakland County.
  • Have an annual gross income below 30% of the Area Median Income.

Additionally, must meet HUD’s Category 2 – Imminent Risk of Homelessness Definition. An individual or family who will imminently lose their primary nighttime residence, provided that:

  • Residence will be lost within 14 days of the date of application for homeless assistance;
  • No subsequent residence has been identified; and
  • The individual or family lacks the resources or support networks needed to obtain other permanent housing.

Click here to complete our form

How Can I Access This Service?

To learn more and to be screened for eligibility visit our Get Help page.