Hope Family Housing is an affordable housing initiative of Hotel Hope, designed to support families transitioning out of homelessness and foster connection across generations.
Building on Hotel Hope’s mission to support families experiencing homelessness, Hope Family Housing creates safe, stable rental housing for single parents and their children – paired intentionally with community elders – so that housing is not just shelter, but a foundation for connectedness and long-term wellbeing.
Families leaving homelessness often face an impossible gap: they are ready to reclaim their independence, but the housing market is not ready for them. Rising rents, limited availability, geographic isolation from economic opportunity, and a lack of supportive community have long been barriers preventing families from thriving.
Hope Family Housing exists to bridge that gap.
Our model provides:
• Permanent, affordable housing for families with children
• Built-in community support that reduces isolation
• Stability and dignity for elders seeking meaningful connection
• A pathway forward, not a temporary stop
Hope Family Housing will: Expand access to affordable housing for families exiting homelessness Reduce returns to homelessness Create meaningful roles for elders in the community Strengthen neighborhood stability Demonstrate a replicable, human-scaled housing model
For families with children
that reduces isolation
for elders seeking
meaningful connection
not a temporary stop
Hope Family Housing uses a duplex-based model intentionally designed to support two households, and three generations, at once.
Each duplex includes:
In exchange for significantly reduced rent, the elder provides light, informal support such as after-school presence, mentoring, childcare assistance, or simply being a trusted adult nearby. Families, in turn, offer companionship, connection, and community.
This is not co-living. It is neighboring with purpose.
Hope Family Housing is being developed in partnership with People’s Housing+, a local nonprofit developer known for innovative, neighborhood-scaled affordable housing solutions.
Together, we are using a “double stack” duplex model that allows us to thoughtfully increase housing capacity while preserving the character and rhythm of residential neighborhoods.
On residential lots that meet certain minimum dimension requirements, the double stack approach allows for:
From the street, these homes still read as residential, not institutional or oversized, helping them blend naturally into the fabric of the block.
This model allows Hope Family Housing to:
The double stack model is not about building more for the sake of more. It is about building smarter by aligning housing design with community values, neighborhood context, and long-term sustainability.
By combining People’s Housing+’s development expertise with Hotel Hope’s deep experience supporting families exiting homelessness, Hope Family Housing is demonstrating how small-scale design choices can lead to outsized social impact.
Hope Family Housing is a natural extension of Hotel Hope’s continuum of care:
This model helps families move from crisis, to stability, to a lasting home.
Hotel Hope is a nonprofit, interfaith organization that provides housing to women and their children in a safe and loving atmosphere while guiding them to self-sufficiency and self- empowerment through intensive case management.
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