Permanent Housing

SROs

Public funds support three Single Room Occupancy projects that house formerly homeless individuals and provide needed services to ensure continued stability. These are Escher Street SRO, Dunham Hall and Steppingstones. Contact the Mercer County Board of Social Services to see if you are eligible.

Housing First

Housing First is the favored approach for helping chronically homeless people return to society. Housing First maintains that the first step is housing, in the form of one’s own apartment, along with the necessary supports to succeed in making that apartment a permanent home. A trusted case manager helps the homeless individual or family resolve the problems that caused them to become homeless. Mercer Housing First initiative.

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Rapid Rehousing

Rapid re-housing is a set of strategies to help individuals and families quickly move out of homelessness and into permanent housing. This approach provides prospective tenants with housing options as well as ongoing support with the landlord, time-limited funding for rent, security and utilities and case managers, who provide services once the family is stably housed. Mercer Housing Now.