We have placed members into permanent housing and counseled hundreds on how to protect the housing they currently have. Most were either homeless, facing homelessness, or in substandard housing.

Examples of members we were able to house include

• When the API Wellness Center could no longer help their client – a homeless, biracial, Vietnamese transgender woman with AIDS in wheelchair – they referred her to AHA/SF. Our representatives petitioned area hotels in person until they found one which was not only wheelchair-accessible but would also accept her housing voucher. Later, we helped her move to fully accessible, supportive housing.

• Impeded by his compromised vision and lack of rental listings accessible to the sight-impaired, one member turned to AHA/SF for assistance. We soon placed him in a very affordable shared housing arrangement which suited his needs perfectly.

• One member came to AHA/SF hoping for to escape from an unsafe living environment. Disabled by AIDS, he was trapped in a situation of domestic violence which had hospitalized him because he lacked the income to meet the minimum monthly requirements of three-times the rent enforced by many landlords. AHA/SF was able to secure him an apartment – and get him $50 a month knocked off the rent – the day he came to our offices!

• We assisted a member, a senior with AIDS, who was facing homelessness due to the sale and pending condo-conversion of his building. We secured new housing for him with a landlord willing to accept him and his pet dog. Later, we helped him move to higher quality housing by advocating with the nonprofit housing provider who did not understand his rental subsidy, and had also lost his application -- for 2 years. Click here to read his testimonial.

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