Sacramento Self-Help Housing Inc

Navigation, counseling and supportive services: as one of the leading housing services agencie in the community, sacramento self-help housing (sshh) partners with various organizations to provide housing expertise to those in need of affordable housing and sustainable and safe housing. Sshh administers housing counseling and housing location assistance throughout sacramento country. Sshh also provides homeless outreach services in elk grove, citrus heights, arden arcade, carmichael, folsom, rancho cordova, north sacramento, south sacramento, and the american river parkway. Participants work in collaberation with trained housing counselors to complete a housing-barriers assessment intake and develop an individualized service plan with self-determined goals, and engage in a planned intervention process which enhances participant self-sufficiency. The intake assesses possible housing barriers such as credit challenges, evictions and legal concerns, along with financial and rental housing. Housing counselors not only provide assistance with housing location, but most importantly tailor housing referrals to reflect the needs of participants for low-barrier, affordable and available housing options. Sshh also maintains a housing database which contains information regarding rental cost, policies and vacancies for over 300 housing options. Housing counseling utilized a client-centered approach to match participants with tangible housing options motivational interviewing assists participants to identify housing goals. Develop interview skills, and provides them with the informations regarding housing requirements, as well as tenant rights and responsibilities. Participants are assisted with completing housing applications, gathering required documentation, and presenting a completed rental application. Counselors help participants identify and address credit challenges and issues pertaining to previous rental history, and support participants during the move-in process, including identifying possible deposit and furnishing assistance, or with obtaining a reasonable accomodation based on a disability. Once housed, sshh provides routine follow-up to track participant housing stability. Participants are contacted at the 30-, 60- 90- and 180-day milestones of maintaining housing to assess their stability on an ongoing basis. Staff continued to house clients into motels/hotels, apartments, and room & boards. The housing services department provided these type of services to an average of 250 clients per quarter. For the pathways alone the number of clients (panel size) was 420. The staff worked with the sacramento housing and redevelopment agency (shra) issuing all housing voucher (hcvs) to get clients housing voucher documents up to date.

Renter's helpline - sacramento self-help housing contracts with project sentinel and the california apartment associaiotn (caa) to provide a telephone and internet-based "renter's helpline." renter's helpline educates tenants and landlords on their rights and responsibilities, offers tenant-landlord dispute resolution, provided referrals and resources for legal assistance and identifies housing discrimination cases which are referred to project sentinel. The renter's helpline has a language line and brochures in six languages. During 2021, rhl attended 7,947 calls, helped 275 clients with relocations, referred 475 to project sentinel, and provided education to enarly 8,000 households. The organization's 2019-2020 annual intake report showed that 56% of households had extremely low income, 38% had below average income, and 4% had very low income, eighty one percent (81%) of households were or had a disabled family member.