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Supportive Housing

Rent your own apartment in Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, or Erie County, while STEL helps provide financial and housing support.

A supportive housing home
A supportive housing home

How it works

You choose where and how you live. STEL supports you and your goals as you live independently:

  • Help locating and securing an apartment anywhere within the county of placement
  • STEL provides the security deposit
  • A monthly rental stipend paid to your landlord
  • Assistance purchasing new furnishings for your home
  • Flexible support planning designed to assist in areas that are important to you

Who it's for

Supportive Housing is designed to serve households of all types and sizes — for adults who:

  • Have a primary psychiatric diagnosis meeting DSM criteria
  • Are 18 years of age or older

Housing readiness:

  • Are able and reliable in self-administering medications
  • Are linked with entitlements, or actively working on linkages
  • Are psychiatrically stable and capable of emergency self-preservation
  • Have the basic skills to live without direct supervision
A supportive housing home
A place to call your own
A supportive housing home

Prefer a shared home with support? See Single Room Occupancy.

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