The team will provide housing search consultation to any individual residing in Metro Boston and surrounding areas who contacts the program for assistance. This consultation may include:

Overview of affordable housing options and strategies for conducting the affordable housing search process

Housing search consultations will be conducted initially by phone, email, and video call, and, when it is deemed safe to do so, in-person. Housing search consultations will also act as a screening process for identifying individuals for our agency and case management services.

The screening process will also identify and prioritize individuals in situations where ongoing housing search intervention is most likely to lead to a near-term housing placement, including those who are:

Currently searching for a unit with a newly obtained tenant-based mobile housing voucher
Have been/will imminently be displaced from their tenancy but have preserved their tenant-based mobile housing voucher and are searching for a new unit
Currently in the screening process for any affordable housing opportunity
Currently receiving enough income to sustain market-rate housing without a rental stipend but unlikely to be matched by rental resources.

The current conditions of the housing market are especially stark, and as pandemic relief programs wind down, the ripple effects could be devastating for many families. But underlying issues around affordable housing for low-income families have been apparent for much longer.

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