Housing Assistance Shares Duffy Award

A Housing Assistance partnership to assist homeless people recently won recognition from Duffy Health Center. Falmouth In From the Streets Partners – a joint effort by Housing Assistance, Belonging to Each Other and Falmouth Human Services – received Duffy’s Community Partner Award. The award was presented at the annual Duffy Health Center Community Breakfast, which honors those who support Duffy’s mission to provide equitable, quality health care and support services to Cape Codders experiencing homelessness.

The Falmouth In From the Streets Partners identify people who need shelter, especially during the winter, and find temporary shelter for them. The partnership has helped several hundred individuals and families in and around the Falmouth area

“Our role is to refer the individuals we identify who are camping or sleeping in a car and to organize their transfer to hotels,” said Stéphane Ruault, outreach specialist and community liaison for Housing Assistance. “We are the boots on the ground in the Falmouth area to help people on the coldest nights of the year ”

To learn more about efforts to help Falmouth’s homeless, watch this special presentation by Falmouth Community TV: youtu.be/5F7xB1klPsv.

LECLAIR VILLAGE – continued from previous page Affordable Housing Trust; Yongmei Chen, Senior Vice President, Eastern Bank; and Rev. Thomas Wyndham, a longtime friend of Mary LeClair.

LeClair Village Apartments is under development through a partnership between Housing Assistance Corporation and Preservation of Affordable Housing, Inc (POAH) When completed by the summer of 2024, LeClair Village will feature 14 one-bedroom apartments, 21 two-bedroom units, and 4 three-bedroom apartments The apartments, which are on town-owned land, will serve low- and moderate-income households.

“Today represents a lot of time, a lot of money, a lot of risk, a lot of people, a lot of expertise,” said Magnotta. “LeClair Village will change the lives and futures of the families lucky enough to live there. Today is cause for celebration, as we recognize the decades of service Mary LeClair has done on behalf of the people of Cape Cod, but it is also a reminder that much work remains to be done to achieve her goal and ours of every family and individual on Cape Cod having a safe and stable place to live.”