What do HomeStart and the Cambridge Multi-Service Center for the Homeless do?
HomeStart and the Cambridge Multi-Service Center provide housing search and support services to homeless and near-homeless families and individuals. Support services offered include information and referral to affordable housing programs; housing search support groups; access to telephone, voice mail and transportation resources; assistance negotiating with property owners and managers and case management services supporting access to healthcare, community service agencies, education and employment programs and home-based services. In addition, staff provide stabilization services following a family’s move to their new home. These stabilization services increase the long term stability of the tenant and the likelihood that they will fulfill all the terms of their lease.
