Housing Support

People experiencing homelessness are 11 times more likely to face incarceration than the general population, and formerly incarcerated individuals nearly 10 times more likely to experience homelessness or unstable housing. The odds against finding housing are compounded by factors common after incarceration, including poverty, unemployment, frayed family ties, untreated mental health and substance use disorders, and laws excluding many formerly incarcerated people from public housing. There is also a short supply of transitional reentry housing that provides a bridge from prison to permanent supportive or affordable housing.

Osborne draws on a large network of housing providers in an effort to assist participants in finding a home. We are also constructing our own transitional housing, building the Fulton Community Reentry Center from the bones of a former prison in the Bronx. To expand the options available, we have designed a Kinship Reentry Housing program to provide financial resources to families seeking to welcome formerly incarcerated loved ones into their homes. Marcus Garvey, our new supportive housing program in Brownsville, Brooklyn, offers coordinated multi-layered resources to address the needs of the older adults living there.