MassHousing has awarded $517,500 to support sober housing programs in Cambridge, Fall River, Springfield, South Boston, Tisbury and Worcester.
The agency’s grants will come from the Center for Community Recovery Innovations, Inc. (CCRI), a nonprofit subsidiary corporation of MassHousing that supports non-profits that create or preserve affordable sober housing in Massachusetts for recovering substance abusers.
"There is a constant need for quality, affordable sober housing in Massachusetts and these latest CCRI grants will help create or preserve nearly 70 units of housing in six communities," MassHousing Executive Director Thomas Gleason said in a statement. "By helping men and women overcome substance abuse and addiction we can lower the number of homeless in our state and help them in their recovery to becoming productive members of society again."
Receiving grants in the latest round of CCRI funding are:
• Heading Home Inc., Cambridge, $75,000 to help create 14 single room occupancy units for
formerly homeless women in Cambridge.
• Steppingstone Inc., Fall River, $30,000 to help create two new affordable sober apartments for men and women in Fall River.
• Greater New Life Christian Center Recovery Power House, Springfield, $75,000 to help acquire and create nine units of affordable sober housing for men in the Indian Orchard neighborhood.
• Julie’s Family Learning Program Inc., South Boston, $25,000 to increase level of life skills counseling, parenting skills and recovery support for mothers and their children in Boston.
• Vineyard House Inc., Tisbury, $75,000 to help consolidate three aging facilities into one new campus.
• Community Healthlink Inc., Worcester, $125,000 to help rehabilitate three affordable sober
apartments for families in Worcester.
• Spectrum Health Systems Inc., Worcester, $75,000 to help rehabilitate eight affordable sober studio apartments and single room occupancy units for men and women in Worcester.
• South Middlesex Non-Profit Housing Corp., Worcester, $37,500 to help rehabilitate eight affordable sober single room occupancy units for men in Worcester.
