Housing Works
About Housing Works
Housing Works is the largest community-based AIDS service organization in the United States, as well as the nation's largest minority-controlled AIDS service organization. Since our founding in 1990, we have provided lifesaving services, such as housing, medical and mental health care, meals, job training, drug treatment, HIV prevention education, and social support to more than 20,000 homeless and low-income New Yorkers living with HIV and AIDS.
Housing Works also runs social enterprise businesses that raise millions of dollars every year to help pay for the services that we provide, spread awareness of our mission, and provide jobs to graduates of our Job Training Program. Our best-known businesses are Housing Works Thrift Shops, a chain of upscale thrift shops located throughout New York City, and the Housing Works Bookstore Café, a used bookstore, literary hub and concert venue located in Soho in downtown Manhattan.
Since 1990, Housing Works has:
- provided a range of lifesaving and empowering services to more than 20,000 New Yorkers living with HIV and AIDS
- won international recognition and governmental and philanthropic awards for innovative models of housing and services for hard-to-reach populations
- become the nation's leading advocate for the rights of homeless people living with HIV/AIDS through bold organizing, advocacy and litigation
- created the nation's first and most successful job training program for homeless people living with HIV/AIDS
- created lucrative businesses that are integral to New York City's cultural landscape and provide critical funding for our client services.
How to Reach Housing Works
Housing Works, Inc.
320 West 13th Street
New York, NY 10014
Phone: 1.212.645.8111
Fax: 1.212.645.8750
TTY users call: 1.212.925.9560
E-mail: smith-caronia@housingworks.org
Web: www.housingworks.org
Latest by Housing Works
Housing and HIV: Hold on to HUD!
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HASA Changes Housing Policies Again, Marking Fourth Change in Over Two Years
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HIV Infection Rates Continue to Rise Among MSM and Communities of Color
Last week the CDC released its latest figures on HIV/AIDS infection rates within the United States, and a few things were made clear.
The good news is that overall, new HIV infections on the whole have not increased. Since the mid 90s, the annual do...
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A recent ruling that found a New York City realtor guilty of HIV discrimination "was a monumental achievement and very big news," Housing Works' Sunny Bjerk writes. "Yet save a few HIV/AIDS organizations and some wonderful social media chatter, the s...
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Same Gray Area: D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray Fails to Come Clean About City's HIV/AIDS Rates Again
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Why I'm Marching to End AIDS: Melanie Haskin Reese, Baltimore
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Why is it important to you to travel to D.C. for the...
Housing Works' East New York Community Health Center Celebrates Expansion With Ribbon Cutting
A newly renovated health center on Pitkin Avenue in East New York marks a milestone for the HIV/AIDS organization Housing Works: It's the first Housing Works center that will serve all people regardless of HIV status.
HASA Officials' Testimony Contradicts Reality
NYC HRA officials testified at yesterday's City Council General Welfare Committee hearing on recent policy changes to HASA that new changes in HASA policies didn't harm clients. But there was plenty of testimony by providers and HASA clients that pro...