Supportive Housing:
Persons Living with Mental And Physical Disabilities
Helping People with Mental Illnesses
Through the N.Y. State Office of Mental Health, Henry Perkins House converts a 
commercial adult home into state-of-the-art supportive housing with studio apartments and community spaces. It creates 50 units of housing in Riverhead, N.Y. for persons with psychiatric disabilities.
The project was sponsored by Concern for Independent Living, Inc.
Helping Homeless and Low-Income Disabled Adults
Near North Apartments is a five-story, 96-unit building in Chicago that takes a fresh approach to SRO
buildings with a remarkable design by noted architect Helmut Jahn.
Near North features many “green
design” elements rarely found
in affordable housing developments,
including aero turbines, solar thermal
collectors, a grey water system and
recycled rainwater. Project sponsor, Mercy Lakefront,
provides on-site support services
and its successful blended
management model to the site.
Read more about this project.
Prevent and End Homelessness
For more information about how to prevent and end homelessness in America, please visit the National Coalition for the Homeless website at www.nationalhomeless.org.
