Massachusetts Alliance for Supportive Housing (MASH)

Massachusetts Alliance for Supportive Housing (MASH) The Massachusetts Alliance for Supportive Housing (MASH) is dedicated to developing and expanding low-threshold permanent supportive housing (PSH) as a solution to homelessness in the Commonwealth. MASH is a collaboration of the Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance (MHSA), United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley (UWMB), and Corporation…

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Pay For Success

Pay for Success is the first social financing initiative in the nation to address chronic homelessness. Since launching in 2015, it has housed more than 1,000 people experiencing homelessness, surpassing its goal of housing 800 tenants over six years.