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Catholics for Housing

18139 Triangle Shopping Plaza, Suite 209

Dumfries, VA 22026-2582

(703) 330-1541

Fax: (703) 330-1542

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Programs

Direct Service Programs and Applications

Edie Streett Security Deposit Assistance Program
Small loans to assist with a security deposit.

Due to the high volume of security deposit loans applications CFH will be

processing applications on the 10th and the 20th of each month only.

All applications must be complete when received; all requested information must

be filled in and verifying documents must received with the application for it to

be processed; incomplete applications will delay processing.

Click on a link below to apply for Edie Street Security Deposit Assistance.

Agencies, click on and print out Agency application to assist your client.

Those who are not going through an agency, please click on and print out

the Direct Client application.

Edie Streett Direct Client Application

Edie Streett Agency Referral Application

Virginia Ely Senior Rental Assistance Program
Senior housing rental subsidy program for Fairfax County. To qualify the

senior must reside or have been accepted for residency at a Fairfax County

owned senior apartment community.

Virginia Ely Senior Rental Application

Edie Streett Security Deposit Loan Program

Cognizant of the difficulties that homeless and/or low and very low income families and households face to save a sufficient amount of money for both the first month's rent and the security deposit when moving to permanent affordable rental housing, CFH provides one time security deposit loans to qualified applicants in amounts up to $200. Named for a former CFH President, the Edie Streett Security Deposit Loan Program, in collaboration with local housing counselors, social workers and churches or other referring agencies, CFH staff processes the application for assistance, and upon verification of eligibility, mails the loan deposit to the new landlord. CFH staff track the applicants through the loan repayment process, contacting landlords and/or tenants (loan recipients) when necessary.

Private donations and grants, leveraged by CFH, fund all security deposit assistance under the Edie Streett program which has been helping since July 1988. The program assists approximately 65 households per year to move from homelessness or transitional housing into permanent affordable housing throughout the Northern Virginia area; an average of 135 children.

Because CFH receives many more requests for assistance than it has funds to serve, the organization will continue to seek new sources for contributions for these loans. With additional funding, CFH could expand both the number of persons served as well as the loan amounts. CFH also provides valuable housing and other resource information and referral services to clients and counselors pursuant to its administration of the security deposit loan program.

The Edie Streett Program is made possible by grants and gifts from the following:

Good Shepherd Catholic Church's Shepherd's Gate Grant, St. Mary of Sorrows Catholic Church, Prince William County United Way Community Impact Fund, the Dreyfus Foundation, Twinkling Eyes Foundation, and others. Repayments of loans by program recipients and landlords also allow others to be helped.

Virginia Ely Senior Rental Assistance Program

With significant funding from the Consolidated Community Funding Pool for Human Services in Fairfax County, Virginia, and supplemented by other various funders, CFH's highly successful senior housing rental subsidy program currently serves forty-two very low income seniors in Fairfax County. This assistance enables financially vulnerable elderly to achieve permanent affordable rental housing at a Fairfax County sponsored senior residence. CFH maintains a waiting list of eligible seniors, so all subsidies currently available are fully utilized at all times throughout the year.

Additional donations and grants also support this program; the Wardman-Naselli Trust at SunTrust Bank, the Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, the St. Mary of Sorrows Catholic Church, the St. Mark's Catholic Church, the Gannett Foundation and others. Grants such as these assure CFH funding for a number of senior subsidies. CFH will continue to seek contributions and grant funding to further expand the program to serve additional low income elderly in need of affordable housing. CFH is working with Fairfax County staff to provide additional subsidy opportunities for low income elderly as new senior housing facilities are being developed.

Additional funding grows as the need increases; the average monthly rental subsidy per senior is $300 per month.

Elderly households served by this program earn below the extremely-low 30% of the area median income, many at 20% and below. The Virginia Ely program provides short term rental subsidies for seniors facing sudden financial hardship which would otherwise cause them to face possible eviction from county housing. Based on recommendations made by facility staff, CFH provides short term assistance while long term solutions (such as Housing Choice Vouchers) may be obtained.

CFH is committed to accountability and transparency in all its community operations and services. Financial information may be reviewed by clicking on Guidestar.