Housing and Security

Employment

• Cape Cod Collaborative
• Cape Cod Young Professionals

Financial Assistance

• Community Action Committee of Cape Cod & Islands, Inc.
• Falmouth Service Center
• Human Development and Capability Association
• Lower Cape Outreach Council

Housing and Homelessness

• Barnstable Housing Authority
  Providing shelter including kitchen facilities where they learn to live cooperatively with others.
• Bourne Housing Authority
  Educating and advocating for the needs of the Homeless Community.
• Brewster Housing Authority
  Town housing authority offering a number of services.
• Cape and Islands Regional Network on Homelessness
  This is a county-wide entity. It meets quarterly. Its work is directed by a two-year regional plan (2012-14) with goals related to access to safe, stable, accessible and affordable housing; improving health through engagement and stabilization; improving economic security; specific outreach and services for the chronically homeless, veterans, families, youth, and seniors.
• Community Action Committee of Cape Cod & Islands, Inc.
  Facilitating goal-setting and acquisition of financial assistance for residents.
• CHAPA (Citizen’s Housing and Planning Association)
  Affordable housing and community development activities. Programs to connect people with affordable rental and homeownership opportunities.
• Chatham Housing Authority
  Town housing authority offering a number of services.
• Coalition on Human Needs
• Community Development Partnership
  Housing is a top priority for us. If we want to build a healthy economy, we know that first we need safe, affordable, year-round places for people to live.
• Dennis Housing Authority
  Town housing authority offering a number of services.
• Falmouth Housing Authority
  Town housing authority offering a number of services.
• Habitat for Humanity
  Teaching occupational and life skills that will lead to independent living.
• Harwich Ecumenical Council for the Housing (HECH)
• Harwich Housing Authority
  Town housing authority offering a number of services.
• Homeless Not Hopeless
  Educating and advocating for the needs of the Homeless Community.
• Homeless Prevention Council
  Addresses need for case management services in the towns of Lower and Outer Cape.
• Housing Assistance Corp/HAC
  Housing Assistance Corporation was founded in 1974 as a pilot project to test the use of rental vouchers to help secure housing for year-round workers on Cape Cod. Since that time, their programs have expanded to assist more than 175,000 low- and middle income households on Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard.
• HUD – Homeless Assistance
• Lower Cape Outreach Council
  Training them to deal with medical, psychological, spiritual and addiction issues.
• MA Department of Transitional Assistance
  Helping those who are capable to find employment or volunteer their time.
• MAHA: Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance
  Breaking down barriers for first-time and first-gen homebuyers and closing the racial wealth gap!
• MA Homeless Shelter Directory
• MA Joint Committee on Housing
• Mass Emergency Housing Assistance Programs
  Find information about who can assist you in this time of need and give you guidance on shelter services.s.gov/emergency-housing-assistance-programs.
• Mass Housing
  Home ownership and renter payment assistance, educational programs on housing stability fair housing, older adults in community and youth in housing.
• Mass Housing: Tools for Addressing Tenancy Issues
• MassAccessHousing Registry
• Massachusetts Housing & Shelter Alliance
  Directory of member agencies and partners to pilot and scale innovative programs that have already helped thousands of people move into permanent housing.
• MCO Housing Services
  Affordable housing ownership and rental assistance. Includes list of guidelines for homebuyers and renters, down payment assistance, etc.
• Mashpee Housing Authority
  Town housing authority offering a number of services.
• Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Member Housing Assistance
  Housing services for the Mashpee Wampanoag Nation.
• National Coalition for the Homeless
  The National Coalition for the Homeless is a national network of people who are currently experiencing or who have experienced homelessness, activists and advocates, community-based and faith-based service providers, and others committed to a single mission. Includes a list of references.
• National Low Income Housing Coalition
  Our goals are to preserve existing federally assisted homes and housing resources, expand the supply of low income housing, and establish housing stability as the primary purpose of federal low income housing policy.
• Provincetown Housing Authority
  Town housing authority offering a number of services.
• Sandwich Housing Authority
  Town housing authority offering a number of services.
• SHI (subsidized housing inventory)
  Used to measure a community’s stock of low-or moderate-income housing for the purposes of M.G.L. Chapter 40B, the Comprehensive Permit Law.
• Wellfleet Housing Authority
  Town housing authority offering a number of services.
• Yarmouth Housing Authority
  Town housing authority offering a number of services.
• Your Rights as a Tenant

Hunger and Food Security

• Cape Cod Healthcare community benefits program
• Cape Kid Meals
  The purpose of Cape Kid Meals (CKM) is to raise awareness of Cape Cod families challenged with food security, and to provide food for the school-aged children of these families on weekends when access to school breakfast/lunch programs are not available.
• The Cape Hunger Network
  A coalition of organizations, including Cape food pantries and state and local agencies that help coordinate food security programs.
• J1 Students

Slavery & Trafficking

• Cape Cod PATH