Housing Program

Pathways to Housing PA currently houses more than 550 individuals through our Housing program, providing comprehensive wrap-around services to support participants on their journey to stability. 

Housing is provided in apartments scattered throughout the city of Philadelphia. This scattered site model fosters a sense of home and self-determination, and it helps speed the reintegration of our clients into their community. Our goal is for participants to become part of the community, and not just live in the community. 

Pathways to Housing PA maintains an 86% housing retention rate even amongst those individuals not considered housing ready by other programs. Despite what you may think, it costs us less to house a person than it does to let them continue to be homeless. If you add up all of the costs involved with a person living unsheltered (prison, ambulance services, police interventions, emergency department visits, medical and psychiatric hospitalizations, soup kitchens, shelter nights) it averages out to be much more than the cost of subsidizing rent and providing appropriate services. Couple that with the fact that we rent vacant market rate apartments across Philadelphia, helping to retain our City's tax base, and we've got a win/win! Our services are good for the person who is now housed, and good for our community as a whole. 

We want participants to do well, to meet their goals, and to live happily and healthfully in their new homes. Our staff is dedicated to doing whatever it takes to help each participant find stability.