Housing Works: 30+ Years on Frontlines, with Andrew Greene

Housing Works: 30+ Years on Frontlines

Wed, Feb 26, 1:00

Housing Works is a leading supportive housing developer, community healthcare provider, and fierce advocate for communities and individuals impacted by HIV/AIDS and homelessness. Founded in 1990 and based in New York with a global impact, the agency has over 1,000 employees and is well-known for its entrepreneurial businesses – nine high-end thrift stores, a bookstore cafe, and the first legal Cannabis dispensary in New York State. Andrew Greene, COO, will speak of the agency’s beginnings, its growth over 30 years, and plans for the future..

Through its advocacy efforts in New York City, Albany, Washington D.C., Haiti and Puerto Rico, Housing Works fights for funding and legislation to ensure that all people living with HIV/AIDS have access to quality housing, healthcare, HIV prevention information and other life-sustaining services, as well as legal protections from stigma and discrimination. 

For over 30 years, Housing Works has provided a comprehensive array of services to tens of thousands of homeless and low-income New Yorkers living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. Providing stable housing IS healthcare and is the first step toward living a long and healthy life. Other wrap-around services include: five Federally Qualified Healthcare Centers, meals and nutritional counseling, mental health and substance use treatment, vocational training, and legal assistance.

Housing Works pioneered the concept of social enterprise businesses whose profits fund the mission of a parent not-for-profit organization. This self-sustaining model provides employment opportunities to the community in addition to fundraising.