Housing Assistance Programs

AIDS Alabama provides several forms of housing assistance to individuals and families affected by HIV/AIDS.

 

Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA)

HOPWA provides short or long-term housing assistance to

HIV-positive, low-income persons and their families.  The purpose of the program is to enable clients to maintain decent, safe, and affordable housing and to prevent homelessness.

 

Shelter Plus Care (S+C)

Shelter Plus Care targets homeless persons living with HIV/AIDS.  The Jefferson County Housing Authority partners with AIDS Alabama to administer Shelter Plus Care housing vouchers to eligible HIV-positive persons in the area, and S+C vouchers are accepted by private landlords throughout Jefferson County.

 

Alabama Rural AIDS Project (ARAP)

The Alabama Rural AIDS project utilizes five community resource specialists throughout the state who are each assigned a five-county area within rural Alabama.  The ARAP workers network with existing providers, establish connections in rural communities, gain rapport with local homeless populations, assist in getting persons tested for HIV, and link HIV-positive persons to available medical care, housing, and supportive services.

Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP)

The purpose of HPRP is to provide homelessness prevention assistance to households who would otherwise become homeless - many due to the economic crisis - and to provide assistance to rapidly re-house persons who are homeless.  HPRP resources are targeted and prioritized to serve households that are most in need of this temporary assistance and most likely to achieve stable housing outside of HPRP after the program concludes.

HPRP provides temporary financial assistance and housing relocation and stabilization services to individuals and families who are homeless or would be homeless without this assistance.  HPRP is not a mortgage assistance program.  HPRP funds are only available to help eligible participants pay for rent, utilities, moving costs, security deposits, storage fees, and other financial costs or services related to housing or re-housing homeless persons.

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