SupportWorks Housing

Cool Lane Commons can't stop winning awards! On October 30, our Real Estate Development team accepted the Community Collaboration For Impact Award for Cool Lane Commons at Historic Richmond's annual Golden Hammer Awards. Collaboration was a hallmark of this project - both Henrico County and the City of Richmond contributed funding to make the community possible. We love working with localities to develop regional solutions to homelessness! Thank you Historic Richmond for honoring Cool Lane Commons and its impact - ending homelessness for 86 of our Richmond-area neighbors ?? Read more about Cool Lane Commons using the link below! https://buff.ly/4999GAr

Wonderful to connect with our community partner Atlantic Union Bank at the Virginia Governor’s Housing Conference, and we are grateful to have won the contest for a $500 donation from AUB! #vaghc

What do you believe about homelessness? At SupportWorks, we believe that homelessness is solvable. Last week, several SupportWorks teammates attended one of our favorite events of the year - Virginia Housing Alliance's annual Housing Virginia's Most Vulnerable Conference. SupportWorks was one of the event sponsors, so Executive Director Allison Bogdanovic had the opportunity to introduce our new brand to attendees, including this video shared during her remarks. It helps continues to tell the SupportWorks story as we embark on this next chapter ?? Support builds. Support transforms. Support Works. https://lnkd.in/ePy24dBp

The Community Impact Team hosted an incredible AUB Building Community Day engaging dozens of teammates! We built benches for SupportWorks Housing Cool Lane property in partnership with ToolBank USA - and then we assembled welcome kits for new residents. We capped the morning off with the ERGs’ resource fair lunch. Thank you Sarah Fernald for your hard work managing all the moving pieces to make this day a success! Atlantic Union Bank #weareAUB #anywayyouGive #caring #commdevatAUB

We’re halfway through Energy Awareness Month, and it’s time to celebrate a multifamily partner success story! ??? SupportWorks Housing (formerly Virginia Supportive Housing) worked with Viridiant to design and construct Cool Lane Commons to meet EarthCraft Gold and HIEE standards, prioritizing both sustainable design methods and the long-term health of the property and its residents ????. Thanks to this partnership, the homeless and low-income individuals who live at Cool Lane Commons will enjoy comfortable homes that are 50% more energy efficient than a standard new home. Learn more about SupportWorks and Viridiant: https://lnkd.in/ePy24dBp https://www.viridiant.org/ #SuccessStory #EnergizeChange #EnergyEfficiency #EnergyAwarenessMonth

Our new name and brand is grounded in months of reflection and deliberation. The name SupportWorks brings an active, engaging feel to our organization and is further enhanced by a new logo and colors that reflect the bright, optimistic approach we’ll continue to bring to our work ?? Executive director Allison Bogdanovi? and Board President Kathy Robertson share their thoughts on our rebrand's impact! Be sure to check out our new website to learn more ?? https://buff.ly/4e8PZdD

Virginia Supportive Housing is now SupportWorks Housing! Building on 35 years of experience working to end homelessness in Virginia, our new name, logo, and graphic platform reflects our continued commitment to combining professional property development and management with integrated support services to deliver measurable results for individuals and communities. We've begun to say our promise is in our name: support works.?“SupportWorks” reflects the effectiveness of our evidence-based best-practice model of supportive housing with?over 95% of the individuals we serve remain stably housed. Because while our name and logo are changing, our mission remains the same.?As SupportWorks Housing, we will continue to provide housing and services that work to transform lives and communities and to end homelessness for good.?

Earlier this month, over 150 people joined us to celebrate the opening of our latest supportive housing community. It’s exciting to see so many people supportive of and excited about affordable housing and ending homelessness, from neighbors to elected officials. It is especially in light of today’s Supreme Court decision in City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson, which ruled that people experiencing homelessness can be arrested for sleeping in a public place even when there are no other adequate shelter options provided. We know – and the evidence shows – that supportive housing is the solution to homelessness. Not criminalization. Several of our peers have released important statements on this ruling: ??National Alliance to End Homelessness ??National Coalition for the Homeless ??National Low Income Housing Coalition ??CSH, the Source for Housing Solutions ??Virginia Housing Alliance We join them in expressing our deep disappointment in this ruling. And we affirm our continued commitment to working with our peers and partners on expanding the person-centered, evidence-based model of supportive housing in our shared mission to end homelessness in Virginia.

We’re so grateful for funders like VCDC for their support in making our real estate development projects possible! Thank you for investing in supportive housing and in making our communities a better place ??

Thank you to WTVR-TV for their coverage of our ribbon cutting ceremony at Cool Lane Commons yesterday! We had a wonderful time celebrating with our staff, Board, supporters, and community partners. The story includes interviews with our Executive Director Allison Bogdanovic and former Board member Keith Conley. We're so appreciative of them coming out to spread the good word about the effectiveness of supportive housing and our work! https://lnkd.in/erGNcDh8