Transforming Lives
A safe, decent place to live is the foundation for helping people with mental illnesses build a better life. Success stories abound of formerly homeless men and women who are now leading happier, healthier lives in quality mental health housing. These success storied are backed by scientific studies that prove that case management services and mainstream medical and psychiatric care provided to people in supportive housing improves their quality of life and their chances for long-term recovery.

Strengthening Communities
Mental health housing benefits the entire community by helping people with mental illnesses to become productive, contributing citizens, reducing homelessness, increasing property values, improving neighborhoods and boosting local economies.

Investing In Cost-Effective, Humane Solutions
Quality supportive housing provides people with serious mental illnesses with a humane alternative to living on the streets and in institutions —at little or no extra cost to the public. A study of the New York/New York supportive housing initiative found that the cost of providing quality supportive housing for people with serious mental illnesses was no more expensive than leaving them homeless because the use of expensive emergency services, hospital care, shelters and jails dropped dramatically.

Values
The New York State Campaign for Mental Health Housing is built on the conviction that people with mental illnesses have a right to safe, affordable housing with adequate supports. The Campaign promotes needs analyses, fiscal efficiency, and the responsibility of government to develop, preserve and reform mental health housing so that no New York State resident with a psychiatric disability suffers the trauma of life in shelters, jails, hospitals, adult homes, or on the streets.