HousingPlus

HousingPlus provides community-based housing and comprehensive services with a focus on women, non-binary and gender non-conforming people, and their families.

We support these individuals and families in overcoming poverty, homelessness, addiction, trauma, and the effects of incarceration. Our goal is for the people we support to build lives of stability and realize their goals.

June 5, 2025

Good Person Awards 2025

On June 5, 2025 at 6 PM in New York City we will host the Good Person Awards Celebration. This year is extra special: we are honoring Rita Zimmer, our esteemed founder, with the Inaugural Legacy Award.

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What we do

Since our start in 2002, HousingPlus has used a housing-first model. This approach centers on providing people experiencing homelessness with housing as quickly as possible.

Permanent Supportive Housing

HousingPlus offers permanent supportive housing with a focus on women and gender-expansive people, and their families. Targeting individuals who have experienced homelessness and/or chronic homelessness, supportive housing offers safe and secure housing surrounded by a range of services which help tenants address the issues that can make them vulnerable to housing insecurity.
Transitional Supportive Housing

HousingPlus offers transitional supportive housing, which like our permanent supportive housing begins with providing housing and complements that with supportive services to allow participants to gain stability. However, these apartments are provided for a limited time, with a view to transitioning participants into permanent housing when they are ready. Our transition programs currently focus on providing an alternative to detention for women and gender-expansive people.
Comprehensive Services

Once our tenants have a stable home, HousingPlus offers a range of individualized services to our program participants designed to meet them where they are and put them on the path to achieving their goals.
Who We Serve

Housing Plus serves New Yorkers who are homeless or at risk of homelessness or have experienced homelessness whether episodically or chronically. Within this group, we target the most vulnerable including: women and children, gender-diverse people, female Veterans, the justice-involved, and people navigating mental health and substance use disorders.

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What’s New

May 5, 2025

HousingPlus Welcomes Karen Ford as New CEO

We are excited to open a new chapter in empowering women and families across New York City. HousingPlus is thrilled to announce and welcome the appointment of Karen Ford as its new Chief Executive Officer. The announcement ushering in a new era for women and families across New York City was made by Board Chair […]
March 25, 2025

News & Highlights from HousingPlus: Spring 2025

Learn how a mother and daughter found new ways to express themselves through cooking, art, and music in a home of their own.

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Good Person Awards 2025

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HousingPlus welcomes Karen Ford as its new Chief Executive Officer.