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- EIN 23-7078882
- 2122656530
- 247 West 37th St, 4th Flr New York NY 10018 USA
- www.settlementhousingfund.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Community & Neighborhood Development, Economic Development, Homeless & Housing, Housing Development, Construction & Management, Housing Rehabilitation
Mission: Founded in 1969, Settlement Housing Fund’s mission is to create and sustain ethnically and economically diverse, affordable housing in New York City, to maintain that housing in excellent repair, and to create a wide array of programs and amenities for residents and those living in surrounding neighborhoods. Since 1969, we have developed over 55 projects containing approximately 8,700 apartments that are home to more than 25,000 New Yorkers in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens. Through affiliates, we currently own 33 buildings with 1,777 apartments in the southwest Bronx; Crown Heights, Brooklyn; the Lower East Side and Upper Manhattan. In addition to developing our own buildings and creating and managing programs, Settlement Housing Fund serves as a development and marketing/leasing consultant to other housing organizations in New York City.
Programs: When appropriate, we incorporate commercial improvements such as banks, supermarkets, schools and playgrounds, and we work with community and citywide groups to provide services that create opportunities for self-sufficiency and education success. As a result, Settlement Housing Fund provides housing and opportunities for upward mobility to formerly homeless people and low and middle income families. In the Fall of 2012, we opened the New Settlement Community Campus, a pre-K through 12th grade public school with an attached community center and pool that we developed in the southwest Bronx neighborhood where we have worked for over two decades. We are currently seeking financing to build another 60 units of new low- and middle-income housing in this same Bronx community where we now own 1,022 housing units. Our Semiperm Housing on Manhattan’s Upper West Side serves 23 formerly homeless single-parent families who live there for two to five years while gaining the skills needed to live independently. Our DREAMS YouthBuild and Young Adult Training Program in Crown Heights, Brooklyn helps unemployed, out-of-school young men and women, ages 17-24, acquire GEDs and job skills, secure employment and college enrollment, while receiving paid construction training on transitional and low-income housing units. We are also currently fully rehabilitating a vacant row house in Crown Heights for use as the St. John's Place Career and College Access Center to assist the homeless residents of our neighboring St. John’s Place Family Center, DREAMS YouthBuild students, and others in the community to obtain better employment and education opportunities.