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Legacy expands housing program
Melissa Grove
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Legacy Counseling Center is preparing 24
apartments in Oak Cliff to house people with
HIV/ AIDS who are homeless. The first eight units
of the new Master Leasing Program will be ready
next week.
Legacy Executive Director Melissa Grove said
the need arose out of her agency's success.
In addition to the counseling center, the agency
operates Legacy Founders Cottage, which opened
in 1996 as a hospice.
But as HIV medications became more effective,
people with AIDS were released from the hospital
to recover at Founders Cottage. Grove said people
who aren't on HIV meds are often sent to her from
hospitalization, but with proper medical care, they
recover.
During longer visits, however, many lose their
jobs. Others are locked out of their apartments
when rent isn't paid and they lose everything.
A more than $300,000 HOPWA grant covered
the cost of the apartments for one year and basic
furniture — a bed, dresser, table and chairs. On
Saturday, Sept. 28, Legacy is collecting items to
outfit the apartments for the new residents. Trucks
will be in the parking lot of the counseling center
on McKinney Avenue to collect donations and
transfer them to the Oak Cliff complex.
Board member Wade Hyde said he hopes to
create warm homes.
"I would love to see these become homes that
speak to the soul and people can embrace living,"
he said.
He called housing a basic need and without
proper housing, he said it was impossible for
Legacy's clients to take care of their health.
"There are so many new folks having issues
with housing, we had to expand our mission,"
Hyde said.
He said people have gone from living with HIV
to just living. And the cottage was where people
went to die.
"Now we help people to live," he said.
He called that an exciting change for the organ-
ization.
Those accepted into the housing program will
have to participate in intensive counseling to work
out a plan to become self-sufficient within the next
year. To underscore the urgency, Grove said she
doesn't know if the grant will be extended beyond
the first year, so she can't promise help beyond
then.
She said the plan may include completing
school, career training or finding a job—whatever
it takes to make the residents self-sufficient.
Those accepted into the program will pay 30
percent of their income toward the lease, accord-
ing to Program Director Helena Davidson.
Davidson comes to Legacy with experience in
Section 8 and emergency disaster housing. She's
worked with Dallas Housing Authority and has
coordinated various emergency and transitional
housing programs in the Dallas area.
She said Legacy is working with a landlord
who owns five properties and has a similar pro-
gram with another housing agency. Legacy rents
from him and sublets to its clients.
The landlord required a case management com-
ponent to the program. Davidson said that's the
only way a program like this works successfully.
"Case managers will meet with tenants regu-
larly to set goals and work toward self-suffi-
ciency," she said.
Workshops will help tenants find jobs and leam
life skills needed for independent living.
Graduates from the program won't be able to
stay in the Legacy units after the first year but will
be able to transition to another apartment on the
property.
She said the landlord benefits by receiving
guaranteed rent and having tenants who tend to
take care of their apartments.
This isn't Legacy's first foray into housing. Ear-
lier this year, the agency opened Homebase for
Housing, an online database to help people with
HIV find affordable housing. But the new pro-
gram is working so well, Grove said other housing
programs are turning to it as a resource.
Grove called it a clearinghouse of information
and referrals for housing options in seven North
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