Housing Unlimited
Cause Area
- Community
- Health & Medicine
- Homeless & Housing
- People with Disabilities
- Seniors
Location
12125 Veirs Mill RoadUnit 201Silver Spring, MD 20906 United StatesWebsite:
https://www.housingunlimited.org/
Organization Information
Mission Statement
Housing Unlimited provides affordable, independent housing for adults in mental health recovery in Montgomery County. The organization promotes independence and recovery by providing a stable and comfortable home. With the security of knowing that their housing is secure, our tenants can focus on becoming valued and integrated members of the community. We provide shared housing - single family and three bedroom townhouses - and rent them at below-market rates to qualified individuals. Rent is computed on a sliding scale based on income and is capped to encourage employment and maintain a sense a security. Tenants are responsible for their own health, finances, interpersonal relationships, and maintaining a clean home.
Description
We encourage our tenants to succeed in their independence by providing concrete incentives such as rent credits for getting involved in the community. We also provide paid intern opportunities so that tenants can gain work experience.
Many of the people that we serve come to Housing Unlimited from homeless shelters, supervised residential programs, or the homes of their aging parents. With more than 350 people on our waiting list, Housing Unlimited must continue acquiring new homes to meet the needs of adults in mental health recovery who are seeking a permanent, affordable, and independent place to live. We can’t grow fast enough to meet the increasing needs of the community.
Housing Unlimited was conceived in the 1980s by members of the Alliance on Mental Illness of Montgomery County, MD (AMI), a 700-member non-profit counseling and advocacy group composed of family members of persons with psychiatric disabilities.
The AMI volunteer task force studied affordable housing options and developed interest in the benefits-economic and empowering-of separating housing from mental health services. The task force-an extraordinary group of volunteers (all with family members who were consumers) then incorporated Housing Unlimited in 1991. With a seed grant from AMI and donations from interested individuals, Housing Unlimited operations were launched in late 1994 with the purchase of Housing Unlimited’s first house.
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