The Worcester Housing Authority is the first housing authority in Massachusetts to develop housing specifically for people who are coming out of homelessness, according to local and state officials. The building features 24 'micro units,' which are very small, fully-furnished studio apartments with bathrooms and kitchenettes.
Worcester Housing Authority's"A Place to Live," which has 24 permanent supportive housing micro units.
"With this project, the housing authority's making a clear statement: we want to help our homeless population," said Worcester Housing Authority CEO Alex Corrales."For some of our residents, it's going to be a place of rebirth. For others, a place to grow. But certainly, for all of them, it will be a place to live."
The property's opening comes as Worcester is anticipating a 14% increase in the number of individual adults who are homeless this fall as compared to fall of last year. Worcester experienced a 30% increase in adult homelessness from March of 2022 to February of this year, according to Leah Bradley, CEO of Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance. The nonprofit runs family shelter and rental assistance programs and is the lead agency for the regional Continuum of Care, a regional planning body required by HUD to work toward solutions to homelessness.
Corrales has been consulting other housing authorities in the region who've asked for more information on how they might explore developing permanent supportive housing on land they own."Imagine for a moment ... if we were able to engage all of our local housing authorities across the commonwealth to create this type of housing with these services and these resources," he said,"we would certainly be well on our way to ending the reality of chronic homelessness.
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