HABcore

HABcore has extensive experience in providing permanent and transitional supportive housing to low-income single adults. We provide the building blocks: a clean, safe home, a permanent address, three square meals and laundry facilities. From there, we go beyond the traditional boarding house model by providing a home-like atmosphere with 24-hour supervision to cater to the needs of our population. Our supportive services include individually tailored development plans that allow residents to start a new life. We have a distinguished track record for expanding to meet the rising need for housing while continually improving supportive services to residents. Our success stories include people like Daphne, who graduated college and moved to Orlando to work for Disney and Carl, who started a greeting card business. With your help, we can continue to build on these successes.

In terms of physical growth, we have expanded from five residents to eighty-four since our inception. We currently manage two boarding houses and two independent, but supported “graduate” housing facilities. Though our Red Bank boarding home, The Coffey Residence, opened with a five bed availability, an expansion in 1993 allowed us to accommodate the twenty-one residents who now live there at below market rents. In 1992, a two-family home was purchased; this home provides housing for five people who live independently. In 1998, we more than doubled in size by acquiring The Laurel House, a boarding home in Asbury Park that accommodates twenty-eight people. In 2005, we began a new program to provide rental subsidies and case management services to twenty-two homeless people with disabilities in Monmouth County. In June of 2005, we acquired a new site in Keansburg to provide another seven units of affordable supportive housing. HABcore reserves ten beds for participants of the 450 Program who are being transitioned from state hospitals back to the community. There is also a respite bed in each boarding home reserved for someone in need of emergency housing on a temporary basis. In January, 2006 we began providing an emergency respite bed for the Monmouth County PATH program.

Central to our philosophy is the recognition that we must help our clients attack the root causes of their poverty. As our population has evolved to one where the majority are people with mental illness, we have expanded support services to accommodate their needs and to foster self-sufficiency. The specific goal of our programs, as described above, is to promote self-sufficiency in a structured, family-like atmosphere. In so doing, we furnish our residents with the tools to reach their highest level of independent living. 77% of our departing residents over the last five years have gone on to live in a more independent setting.

HABcore’s success has been recognized by the Monmouth County Department of Community Development, New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, and HUD.