The Alliance’s Homelessness Research Institute has found that roughly half of Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) residents in rural or suburban areas would be at risk of losing their housing if the President’s budget proposal is enacted.
Permanent Supportive Housing provides housing paired with robust, wraparound services for people who have experienced chronic homelessness. For largely rural Continuums of Care, 47% of PSH beds are federally-funded, while 50% of PSH beds in largely suburban Continuums of Care are federally-funded. Rural and suburban may not receive as many resources from states, local governments, foundations, or other private donations, and thus rely more on federal funding – specifically, the Continuum of Care program.
If federal funding for Permanent Supportive Housing disappears, as is proposed in the President’s budget, approximately half of these residents would likely lose their homes and again risk homelessness.
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