Permanent Supportive Housing

Responding to ongoing community need and building on the success demonstrated at Oliver Apartments, in 2018 South Bend Heritage, the City of South Bend, and Oaklawn were again selected to participate in IHCDA’s PSH Institute, and were awarded funding for a second PSH development. During 2019, the PSH team researched several potential development sites, and a lot in the 1500 block of W. Washington St was selected as the top site for a new development. Unfortunately, after extensive public engagement, education, and discussion, the rezoning of the site was not approved by the City Council. This process resulted in the PSH team being strongly advised by local elected leaders, stakeholders, and community activists to continue to educate the community about PSH and to complete the development in the Northeast or Southeast sectors of the City that are currently zoned to accommodate apartments and fulfill the requirements of a PSH development, rather than the Westside of South Bend.

For more information about the work we’ve been doing over the past year, see video, links, and news stories below.

To provide input, comments, or questions about the City’s plans to address homelessness, email: mayormueller@southbendin.gov

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PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING

  • Oliver Apartments

    In the fall of 2017, South Bend Heritage opened Oliver Apartments to house homeless individuals in South Bend. Located on the old Oliver School site at Indiana Ave and Kemble Street, Oliver Apartments features 32 one bedroom, one bath apartments. Oliver Apartments is designed to offer individuals that are homeless a place to live and access supportive services. The apartments are managed by Bradley Company and supportive services provided by Oaklawn.

  • Hope Ave Homes

    Scheduled to open in late spring 2022, Hope Avenue Homes will feature 22 apartment units exclusively for individuals who previously experienced homelessness or chronic homelessness. Residents will be selected from a prioritized list of people experiencing homelessness that are pursuing housing. Hope Avenue Homes will operate as Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH), an innovative, evidence-based approach to engage & rapidly house chronically homeless, who may be unable to meet requirements of other types of shelters or temporary housing. It provides intensive and flexible services to stabilize and support housing tenure while utilizing housing retention plans.

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“The process of creating this type of affordable housing can be incredibly complex. Through the Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) Institute we, along with the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH), have the unique opportunity to work alongside development teams, before they submit a funding application, to support them in their efforts to create housing that will benefit individuals and families experiencing long-term and chronic homelessness.”

- Jacob Sipe, Executive Director of the Indiana Housing & Community Development Authority | June, 25 2019

 FAQs

  • It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

  • It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

  • It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

  • It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.