The Partnership for Permanent Housing (PPH) is an innovative program that reduces the amount of time families and individuals spend in homelessness by combining the case management component of transitional housing programs with quicker access to permanent housing.  PPH provides subsidized permanent housing and supportive services to 137 households.

Case management, personalized to the needs of each household, centers around maintaining financial solvency, employment retention, and improving household management, budgeting and parenting skills.  Initially, case management is provided on a weekly basis but diminishes in direct proportion to the households’ development of independent living skills.

PPH households receive:  

• Housing subsidy
• Assistance in locating and obtaining affordable, appropriate housing
• Assistance with furnishing their new home
• Individualized case management
• Quarterly Newsletter
• Emergency funds, as needed

PPH came into existence in 2003 as a collaborative effort between the Coalition, Housing Opportunities Commission, and Montgomery County Departments of Health and Human Services and Housing and Community Affairs.  Due to the program’s tremendous success, it was expanded by 55 households in FY2007 with funding from the County Council and Department of Health and Human Services, by 12 families in FY2008 through the Freddie Mac Foundation, and by 20 households in FY2008 through the County’s Supportive Housing Rental Assistance Program.  PPH is Montgomery County’s pilot “Housing First” program and an implementation of an action step in the Coalition’s local plan to end homelessness.