Submitted by MillennialNightmare t3_zlqrdv in nyc
MillennialNightmare OP t1_j06m89t wrote
>In essence, supportive housing is rent-stabilized, affordable housing, with voluntary, on-site services designed for formerly homeless tenants. Proponents of the model believe residents should be persuaded, not forced, to accept social services.
>“This is not an institution,” said Brenda Rosen, the president and chief executive of Breaking Ground, the developer of 90 Sands. “This is an apartment building with a lease and a key.”
>There are several public agencies involved in supportive housing and units can have different criteria, but qualified applicants generally have serious mental illness, substance abuse issues or both. Even so, supportive housing is less expensive than operating temporary shelters, said Eric Rosenbaum, the president and chief executive of Project Renewal, a homeless services group. It cost Project Renewal almost $52,000 last year to keep a single adult in a shelter, but only about $26,000 for an individual in supportive housing, he said.
> Over 98 percent of the nonprofit’s supportive housing tenants were still living in their apartment after one year, Ms. Rosen said. And at two of their older supportive housing projects — former hotels in Manhattan converted in the 1990s — the average length of tenancy is over 12 years.
bsanchey t1_j06uqv5 wrote
The simplest solution is often the best and the cheapest. But NYCs non profit industrial complex needs its slice of money with no incentive to solve the issues.
PiffityPoffity t1_j06wnku wrote
This program is operated by Breaking Ground, a nonprofit.
ThreeLittlePuigs t1_j06x81u wrote
Well can’t expect people to actually be informed. They just need to say “activists and non profits” are to blame so they can go about their day.
bsanchey t1_j072f2s wrote
Here a link to the millionaire nonprofit ceo but I’m the uninformed one one right jackass?
ThreeLittlePuigs t1_j074cse wrote
Okay? Yes breaking ground takes outlandish salary for their top staff. How is that somehow a gotcha? You think if he took a lower salary this would all be solved?
MillennialNightmare OP t1_j07llak wrote
That link isn’t even about Breaking Ground to begin with.
ThreeLittlePuigs t1_j07ncjw wrote
Yeah they do though. Executive staff there all 400k+. Again doesn’t change anything about the conversation, but they are critiqued often for high salaries.
NetQuarterLatte t1_j0855rx wrote
If they are going to provide housing plus services, their salaries need to be competitive.
Something in between a corporate job at a big landlord company and a hospital management salary.
ThreeLittlePuigs t1_j085ekb wrote
I agree for the folks doing the direct clinical work. And not even hating on the high salaries for all the executive either. It’s just many folks point to the high pay of some of their staff as problematic. Again in the grand scheme of things I don’t think it’s a big deal at all
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