HEARTH – Help with housing in Jefferson, Lewis, and St. Lawrence Counties in Northern New York

Eligibility

Each eligible person must be at or below 50% of the median income and have ONE of the following factors:

• Eviction pending within 2 weeks
• Sudden/significant loss of income
• Sudden/significant increase in utility costs
• Credit problems
• Housing cost is more than 50% of income
• Families with children under 2 yrs old.
• Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant)
• Living in housing that has been condemned
• Recent traumatic life event
• Multiple families in single family home
• Overcrowded household
• Mental health and/or substance abuse issues
• Physical disabilities and/or chronic health issues (including HIV/AIDS)
• Have been homelessness within last 12 months
• Significant amount of medical debt
• Extremely low income (30% of median)
• Pending foreclosure of rental housing
• Currently experiencing a housing crisis
• Past institutional Care
• Eviction from public or assisted housing
• Involvement in child welfare, including foster care
• Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution where the person have been a resident for more the 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions and hospitals)

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