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The Middlesex - Meriden/Wallingford Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP) provides support services and financial assistance to prevent homelessness or assist individuals and families who can be rapidly re-housed. HPRP focuses on keeping households that are at-risk of homelessness in their housing (prevention) and on moving families and individuals quickly out of emergency shelter and into housing with appropriate supports (rapid re-housing).

To qualify your household income must be less than 50% of area median income and you need to prove you have or can reasonably secure the capacity to sustain your housing, after the short term HPRP assistance expires.

Homeless Prevention
Households may be eligible for homeless prevention services if you have received a written eviction notice, are doubled up and the host or landlord has given you a deadline for moving out, your housing has been condemned or is hazardous, or you have experienced a sudden and significant loss of income.

Rapid Re-Housing
Households may be eligible for rapid re-housing services if you reside in a shelter, sleep in a place not meant for human habitation, are timing out of a transitional housing program, or you are a victim of domestic violence.

Qualification screens can be completed by dialing 211 or participating agencies and ask about the Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program.

For Additional Information call:

1. United Way 211 (toll free hotline, multilingual, confidential, 24 hours a day)
2. Mercy Housing and Shelter Corporation, (860) 808-2040
3. Middlesex United Way, (860) 346-8695

Participating Agencies: American Red Cross - Central CT; Community Health Center; Community Renewal Team; CT Legal Services; Master's Manna; Mercy Housing & Shelter; Meriden/Wallingford Chrysalis; Middlesex United Way; Middletown Elderly Agent; New Opportunities; Rushford Center; St. Vincent DePaul Place; and United Way of Meriden and Wallingford.