What We Do - Housing
Emergency Shelter
Last year, HomeFront provided over 10,000 nights of emergency shelter for families with children.
The Family Preservation Center
A model shelter, the Family Preservation provides safe, secure individual dormitory-style rooms for 44 families with young children. Work FirstNJ job training and life skills programs, childrens' educational enrichment and recreation programs, and individual case management are hallmarks of this center.
FreshStart
FreshStart offers six service-enriched safe, secure apartments for homeless families.
Transitional Housing
Transitional programs provide interim housing for homeless families working towards self-sufficiency. All programs are enriched with individual case management, job and life skills training, parenting and counseling.
Huchet House
Residential program designed to meet the special needs of homeless women pregnant with their first child.
Carl's House
Housing for HIV+ single men who have recently been released from the hospital and need assistance caring for themselves.
Kinship
Subsidized housing for families in which the head of the household is not the biological parent (grandmother, aunt, etc.)
Partnerships for Family Independence
Program to help mothers living in subsidized housing transition from welfare o work with success.
Permanent Affordable Housing
HomeFront owns and manages eight permanent affordable housing buildings in Mercer County. All residents are in HomeFront case management programs and participate in supportive services to help them succeed and remain employed and successfully independent. These include:
Brunswick Court/Connecticut Avenue
Sixteen apartments in Hamilton and Trenton.
Siloam Homes
Eight homes for families with one member who is HIV+.