MassHousing has awarded $332,892 to support affordable sober housing programs in Boston, Fall Fiver, Haverhill, Lawrence, Palmer and Worcester.
The grants will come from the Center for Community Recovery Innovations Inc., a nonprofit subsidiary of MassHousing that supports nonprofits that create or preserve affordable sober housing in Massachusetts for recovering substance abusers.
“These CCRI grants will help people fighting addiction and allow them to live in a sober setting to avoid homelessness,’’ MassHousing Executive Director Thomas R. Gleason said in a statement. “Overcoming substance abuse and homelessness takes a community effort and these organizations are on the front lines of helping people get sober and reclaiming their lives.’’
The grant recipients include:
Community Healthlink Inc., Worcester: $75,000 to help rehabilitate and preserve eight single-room occupancy units of affordable sober housing for men and women.
Steppingstone Inc., Fall River: $21,692 to help rehabilitate and preserve 10 units of single-room occupancy affordable sober housing for men and women.
South Middlesex Non-Profit Housing Corp., Palmer: $75,000 to help rehabilitate and preserve 18 units of single-room occupancy affordable sober housing for men and women.
Self Esteem Boston Educational Institute, Haverhill and Lawrence: $20,200 to help fund the Skills for Success Capacity Building Initiative program which assists women and their children in recovery with life skills and support services.
Nueva Vida Inc., Boston: $41,000 to help rehabilitate and preserve Dunmore Place, an apartment building in Roxbury housing six families in recovery.
Oak Hill CDC, Worcester: $25,000 to help launch the Worcester Homeless Action Committee’s Housing Stabilization Initiative to support the transition of people from shelters and transitional programs to sober and more permanent supportive housing in Worcester.
Victory Programs, Boston: $75,000 to help create 14 new units of affordable sober housing for women in Dorchester. Financing partners include the state Department of Housing and Community Development, Boston Department of Neighborhood Development and the state Department of Public Health. This project is expected to help meet the need created by the closing of the Long Island shelter.
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