To learn more about the Housing Location and Placement Services (HLPS) program, please contact us at 212-663-3000 x 1438 or shicks@thebridgeny.org

Housing Location and Placement Services (HLPS)

The Bridge is excited to participate in NYC Health and Hospitals’ Housing Location and Placement Services (H+H HLPS), an innovative new program designed to help link vulnerable New Yorkers to stable housing. In 2022, the NYC Health and Hospital system provided care for almost 50,000 people experiencing homelessness. H+H HLPS will help these patients access housing, a key social determinant of health.

Three Bridge Housing Specialists and a Peer Specialist will screen the applicants referred by H+H. The Housing Specialists will help the applicant compile the necessary documents to apply for housing, assess their life skills and help develop these skills when needed, and provide them with the resources to remain safely and stably housed. Vicki Robles, the AVP of Community Support Programs, said, “We can get them the lease and keys, but that’s not enough. We want them to be housed permanently and successfully.”

The Bridge’s goal is to house at least 300 people over the course of the three-year contract. The first client referred to The Bridge is in the process of moving to one of our supportive housing locations in Manhattan. He is dually enrolled in another Bridge Community Support Program and will have the necessary support to help him thrive.

HLPS provides the following resources + services:

Obtaining Housing Placement through Supportive Housing + Rental Subsidies

Assigned Housing Specialist to assist with securing Housing
One – Year Aftercare Services including a Peer Support Specialist
Furniture Assistance
Financial Assistance Obtaining Vital Documents & Government Issued Identification
Utility Assistance
Budgeting / Money Management
Tenant Advocacy Resources