Rapid Re-Housing Program

HPRP (Homeless Prevention and Rapid re-housing Program) in Rhode Island is a collaborative statewide approach to preventing and ending homelessness for individuals and families. Program goals include reducing length of stay in shelters and ensuring permanent housing stability for people moving out of homelessness.

Rapid Rehousing Staff Members
Crossroads staff help find safe and respectful permanent homes for individuals and families.

Crossroads Rhode Island’s Rapid Re-Housing Program features:

  • Outreach to landlords to develop a pool of affordable housing units
  • Housing search assistance
  • Short-term financial assistance to homeless individuals and families to help them secure and retain housing
  • Intensive, home-based case management to ensure that clients sustain housing
  • Financial counseling, budgeting, credit repair
  • Connecting homeless individuals and families to mainstream resources
  • Life-skills interventions to promote long- term housing stability
  • Landlord/Tenant educational services

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