Creating Homes Initiative

Creating Homes Initiative Program (CHI) enables Tennessee to provide quality, safe, affordable, and permanent service-enriched housing to meet the needs of people experiencing mental illness and/or substance use disorder. Seed funding within the program unlocks additional sources of funding to help establish homes, as well as funding direct services to individuals in addition to housing. Expansions of CHI include a focus on expanding permanent supportive housing opportunities for people in recovery from substance use disorders, and people with mental illness and/or substance use disorder who re-enter the community from prisons and jails or have a history of incarceration. Grassroots-based professionals, known as Consumer Housing Specialists, engage directly with individuals to access housing opportunities.