Who Needs Nashua Housing Assistance?
Low-Income Families. Through housing programs and rental assistance programs, these families can benefit from housing services. They often struggle to meet their housing costs, making them potential recipients of housing vouchers and subsidies.
Individuals Experiencing Homelessness. These individuals experiencing homelessness may greatly benefit from the housing for homeless program, which includes options like emergency housing, transitional housing, or even permanent housing initiatives. In addition, they may require additional supportive services, such as mental health services, substance use treatment, and vocational training.
Victims of Evictions. Those who have received an eviction notice or eviction letter are in imminent danger of losing their housing, making them eligible for emergency rental assistance or public housing apartments.
Veterans. Housing services for veterans often cover supportive living environments and communal housing, including the Housing for Veterans program.
Elderly Individuals. Many older individuals live on fixed incomes and may struggle with housing costs, making programs like the housing choice voucher program, elderly care services, and nursing home care crucial to their well-being.
Unemployed or Underemployed Individuals. Those who have lost their jobs or are working but not earning enough to cover housing and other expenses. These individuals may be eligible for unemployment benefits programs to help those dealing with a loss of household income.
Individuals With Disabilities. People with disabilities may require special accommodations, supportive services, or separate supportive living environments and may qualify for disability grants or benefits.
Why Choose Harbor Care?
Personalized Support. Our programs are customized to meet the needs of individuals and families facing homelessness. We take the time to understand the circumstances of our clients and provide personalized advice and resources to help them secure stable housing.
People Empowerment. We prioritize people who need empowerment toward independence and success. Our programs emphasize skill-building, financial literacy, and employment assistance to help them regain control over their lives and destinies.
Proven Success. Our evidence-based practices have a proven track record of success in breaking the cycle of homelessness. This success is measured not just in housing stability but also in improved well-being and employment outcomes that demonstrate the effectiveness and impact of our approach.
Passionate Team. Our dedicated staff is passionate about making a positive impact in the lives of our clients. Our team members work tirelessly to advocate for and support our clients, creating a warm and supportive environment that fosters hope and resilience.
I Need Housing Help
If you or your family are homeless or at-risk of becoming homeless, please call our region’s coordinated entry line at NH211 or visit www.nh211.org. This system is not run by the Harbor Care, but will find you a best-fit program, which often is one of ours.
Temporary Housing
What Are the Types of Housing Assistance Programs?
Rental Assistance
These programs offer active support to eligible households, typically those whose income falls under a certain threshold and who face difficulty with rental payments. This form of housing assistance in Nashua usually covers not only part of the monthly rental payment but also potential security deposits and, at times, even utility assistance.
Public Housing
Publicly owned housing units are managed by housing authorities. They are rented out to low-income households at affordable rates, ensuring a reasonable standard of living and meeting defined housing quality standards. These properties range from individual homes to large apartment buildings.
Subsidized Housing Programs
Through housing subsidies, the government or other organizations assist beneficiaries with their housing costs. This can significantly reduce the monthly rent, making it affordable for low-to-moderate-income families and individuals. This kind of assistance is also often associated with the Housing Choice Voucher Program.
Emergency Housing in Nashua, NH
Emergency housing acts as a safety net and provides temporary shelter to those in immediate crisis. This includes people facing homelessness due to an eviction notice or eviction letter, those displaced by natural disasters, or victims of domestic abuse. Harbor Care and other emergency housing programs can assist in these circumstances, offering not only shelter but also urgent supportive services.
Supportive Housing
This is more than just a residence; supportive housing integrates physical housing with supportive services designed to help residents address other aspects of their lives that may have contributed to housing insecurity. This includes care for mental illness, substance use disorder support, elderly care, child care, and nursing home care, among others.
Temporary Housing in Nashua, NH
Temporary housing is often provided to individuals and families in immediate need but is not meant to be a long-term solution. This can include individuals who are going through a transition period (such as moving towns or cities), those who have been recently displaced due to incidents like fires or floods, or individuals facing sudden personal upheaval like domestic abuse or eviction. It can also be used while awaiting placement in more permanent housing programs.
Stand With Harbor Care Against Homelessness: Call Us Today
Housing instability can strike any individual or family. The reasons vary, from sudden unemployment to prolonged illness, mental health struggles, or a devastating natural disaster. Harbor Care aims to alleviate the stress and despair caused by homelessness through a host of services for individual needs.
Through our innovative programs and dedicated staff, we provide not just a roof over our clients' heads but a stepping stone for them to regain their independence and dignity.
Permanent Supportive Housing
Too many people never really escape homelessness. When struggling with severe and persistent mental illness or substance use disorder, they often move from crisis to crisis; losing a job, getting evicted, losing healthcare is often followed by receiving short-term help. Once this help ends, however, the cycle of homelessness often repeats. Using a “Housing First” model of care, combined with long-term housing and supports, we stop the cycle of chronic homelessness and get people on track to a stable life.
If you or your family are homeless or at-risk of becoming homeless, please call our region’s coordinated entry line at 1-844-800-9911 or NH211 (www.nh211.org). This system is not run by the Harbor Care, but will find you a best-fit program, which often is one of ours.
How It Works
Harbor Care often prioritizes its housing for veterans and individuals and families living with disabilities, including behavioral health disorders such as mental illness or substance abuse disorders, physical disabilities, or those living with chronic illness such as HIV/ AIDS.
Our housing comes in a variety of forms – from shared houses to apartment complexes to “vouchers” that allow a client to choose their own home within the community. In all cases, rent remains affordable, with clients paying a portion of their income towards rent. Our housing often comes bundled together with services, such as case management, to help clients find employment, obtain entitlements and benefits for them and their families, and avoid returning to homelessness.
Programs include:
Permanent Supportive Housing Program, for chronically homeless individuals through federal subsidies (non-voucher).
Mainstream Voucher Program, for chronically homeless individuals through a federal voucher.
Boulder Point, a project-based HUD-VASH (Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing) voucher program for veterans.
Harbor Care also operate other federally-subsidized properties, which helps us offer lower rents to qualified community members. Available units are featured on our current housing openings page.
Qualifications, Cost & Enrollment
Each of our housing programs have their own eligibility criteria. Typically clients pay approximately 30% of their income towards rent.