Mission: Housing+solutions provides community-based housing and comprehensive services to women, including women with children, to support them in overcoming poverty, homelessness, addiction, trauma, and the effects of incarceration, in order to build lives of stability and to define and realize goals for themselves and for their families.
Programs: Housing+solutions provides permanent supportive housing for more than 100 women and families. Our uniquely holistic approach helps women facing homelessness build lives of their own. We: provide housing so they can create real homes; help them get suitable jobs; help them address the traumatic events that may have caused their homelessness: chronic abuse, drug addiction, incarceration, and for female veterans, physical disabilities and emotional suffering. Housing+solutions is one of the citysand the nationsmost progressive and successful not-for-profit housing and support programs. Our work benefits not only the women we serve, but the communities in which they live and the taxpayers of new york.
I met The founder while the CFO for a social service organization in Harlem district, New York City. Rita Zimmer is selfless and dedicated in pushing forward the issues of homeless women and families in New York City. I joined the Board in Jan 2007 and served actively for 3 years but relocated to the Bay Area and gave up my role in January 2013 due to distance and local commitments in San Francisco homelessness cause.
Rita and the Board of Trustees at Housing+Solutions expect nothing but ensure the success of this venture, which has gained accolades and commendations for excellent and selfless acts. Women who had one way or the other entangled with the law and given the second chance. it is a remarkable endeavor and deserves the generosity and support from those who would like to make a difference. Give a little it makes the world go round.