Housing Mission

Since inception in February of 1986, AIDS Help, Inc. (AHI) has provided housing assistance for needy individuals seriously disabled by AIDS due to their illness and loss of employment. Early on many of our clients died within a short period of time and housing dollars could be stretched to meet requests for assistance. With the advent of protease inhibitors and other treatment advances the lifespan of those living with HIV/AIDS has changed creating long-term housing needs that now extend over many years.

AHI clients are living longer and managing their disease because of a well functioning HIV/AIDS case managed care delivery system. Even so, those clients who are disabled still face incredible obstacles in finding and maintaining long-term and permanent housing, which is very limited or non-existent in many areas of Monroe County, Florida.

AIDS Help is committed to its housing mission established over two decades ago. Our agency recognizes the fact that stable housing is critical to the health and well-being of persons living with AIDS and is basic to the proper functioning of the entire care system. We take pride in the fact that long ago our mission would include housing as fundamental service, which concept many agencies across the nation are only now embracing.