Caring Homes Program

The Caring Homes Program provides financial assistance to homeless families and families at risk of homelessness. We can provide a payment of up to $400 per family for security deposits, rent arrears, and utility arrears to either help the family remain in their current home or to help them obtain new housing.

Funding for this program comes from the City of Binghamton’s Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) or United Way. There are strict eligibility guidelines for this program. To be considered eligible for the ESG grant, the city requires the family to be residing or homeless in the City of Binghamton. Exceptions are if the family has been placed in a shelter or motel outside the city by DSS (such as the Endicott Inn), or the SOS shelter (also located in Endicott) due to domestic violence. Additionally, we are able to provide financial assiatnce to support familes throughout Broome County due to suport from United Way.

Case management is the other important piece of this program. Client families must agree to three months of follow-up case management with our program. This stipulation was put in place to help families address the issues/barriers that put their housing at risk and hopefully help them gain the skills and/or resources needed to prevent the same situation from occurring again.

Please contat 211 for assistance. You will be walked through a quick screening. you will then be transferred to Coordinated Entry where your information will be collected. If you qualify for our program we will be forwarded your information and we will contact you directly.