City hospital system’s Housing for Health Initiative helps patients find suitable places to live

August 7, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

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CITYWIDE — OVER 1,200 CITY PUBLIC HOSPITAL SYSTEM’S PATIENTS HAVE FOUND HOUSING through the NYC Health + Hospitals’ Housing For Health Initiative. Patients experiencing homelessness were referred to the program as part of their healthcare at NYC Health + Hospitals. Patients are supported in gathering key documents, completing applications for housing, and identifying housing for which they qualify. They are also shepherded through the process of visiting their prospective housing and transitioning into permanent living arrangements. Patients who find living arrangements through the Housing for Health program are placed in affordable or supportive housing and pay no more than 30% of their income towards rent. They remain connected to the health system for their healthcare.

Housing for Health identifies patients through referrals from their NYC Health + Hospitals care providers, including MetroPlusHealth, the health system’s managed care organization, and the initiative’s medical respite program. Housing for Health is working to develop affordable and supportive homes in New York City by identifying available land under the health system’s control and partnering with developers and City housing agencies to construct residential buildings on that land.

This program is expected to create over 650 new affordable homes on hospital land, among them the Comunilife Throop Residence in Brooklyn on the campus of NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull, which will be complete and ready for occupancy later this year.

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