Mission, Vision, and FAQs

ANNOUNCEMENT

Katie's House Foundation has recently divested real estate from Alabama to Arizona meanwhile our affiliate network continues to operate nationwide. Please subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay in the know and keep reading to learn more about our nationwide products and services.

OUR MISSION

Our mission is to provide roommate housing to people who are just starting out, starting over, or on a fixed income. In addition, the overarching goal of Katie's House Foundation is to help people become financially literate, so they can become self sustaining and qualify for their own starter homes within 2 years. The suggested length of stay (LOS) is one month to two years.

All teens and adults who need to move out at a certain time actually live in temporary housing until they purchase a home or have the means to make moves with little to no impact to their well-being. Purchasing a home requires a healthy income or multiple income streams which may include a healthy roommate situation and what better way to meet roommates than via a background check, matching process and expectations for a clean peaceful home.

Our housing can be referred to as shared housing, co-living, temporary, transitional, half-way, or sober living if the house has a 12-step program and drug testing being implemented. We refer to our homes as boutique shelters with house rules and good neighbor policies.

FINANCIAL LITERACY

There is always the question of the chicken or the egg, in which case financial literacy is actually needed before the teenager or adult leaves the nest, and not just any financial literacy, but a very special combination of lessons primarily written by our Founder after 20 years in lending and after starting 8 companies, one of which sold for six figures. Anyone can master the information as it was designed for ages 15 to 19 and adults who are new to the topics.

Did you know, it takes 1 to 2 years of stable employment, good credit, on-time rental payments, and a bit of savings to qualify to lease or purchase your own place?

Residents of Katie's House Foundation are required to complete The Normalize Money Project® formal curriculum so they can learn to manage their credit score, loans, insurance and financial documents. Teens and adults need this education to identify their strengths and weaknesses, obtain a job they love, increase their earnings, create a short term and long term plan, consider a significant other, children, and more. They must learn to manage the forever ebbs and flows of life!

Using The Normalize Money Project® Katie's House Foundation offers a viable exit strategy to permanently reduce housing instability.

OUR VISION

Our vision is to see homelessness decrease and upward mobility increase, to empower individuals through safe sleep, education, and community resources.

 CONNECTING PEOPLE  WITH OPERATORS

To effect our mission and reduce unnecessary back and forth calls or drop offs, we asked an affiliate company to create The National Shelter Registry @ www.shelter-registry.com 

We are requesting that anyone who owns or operates a hospital, shelter, or home for low-income or grant paid housing list their locations and search this platform frequently.

Without a lot of funds for advertising we really need a grass-roots movement to get www.shelter-registry.com going. www.shelter-registry.com will make it easier for at-risk populations to change houses or move up and down the continuum of care as needed.

Without www.shelter-registry.com we will get what we've always gotten, which is people who want help wasting valuable time and scarce resources making calls to the few published shelters and waiting to find an open bed that they qualify for. During this time they often have no choice but to go back out into a high-risk situation. As long as our industry embraces www.shelter-registry.com we should see a change in tides of homelessness and housing improve, over the long haul.

CONNECTING OPERATORS WITH EDUCATION

Due to the amount of questions we receive we offer Co-Living with Confidence: a Nonprofit Shared Housing Master Class (view e-course). These 12 hours are jam-packed with how to start and operate a co-living house, sober living home, halfway house, shared house or residential nonprofit shelter, including nearly 100 operational documents. If you prefer to rent your house out by the room to working-class folks please consider signing up to be a Padsplit host using our affiliate link here: Padsplit Affiliate Host Link 

FAQs

WHO DO WE HOUSE 

Most people we come in contact with know nothing about credit or have ruined their credit score, and have likely experienced death, divorce, or trauma. Some people who have come to us have no ID, Social Security Card or Birth Certificate but can be verified by police, court systems or background checks. Others are working class and simply need a room to rent while they get on their feet.

 SUPPORT SERVICES

Lyft, AA and NA hotlines often provide free rides for work and medical needs. Sober homes require a 12-step program for therapy and Medically Assisted Treatment (MAT) can improve lasting sobriety by up to 80%. MAT is typically free.

WHAT WE DO NOT PROVIDE

Katie's House Foundation does not provide free housing, food, medical testing (except for testing in designated sober living homes), healthcare, cell phones, transportation, therapy, clothes, job placement, PO or case worker check-ins. 

We encourage residents and their care teams to identify these resources from other agencies or nonprofits that do not provide housing. Katie's House Foundation is a housing provider seeking to provide education and safe sleep as a foundation for growth. "It takes a village" is as true today as it ever was. 

 UNITED WAY OR VETERANS HOUSING

Long-term leases from one of our affiliate companies may be available in lieu of our nonprofit housing agreement if your grant funding requires a long-term lease. Please contact us to inquire about this as the application will be different.

DRUG COURT OR SOBER LIVING

Sober living has more stringent house rules than those published online. The intake manager will go over those expectations with you after your application is received. Homes will be posted on www.shelter-registry.com

An ideal co-living home is 1600+ sqft and includes utilities, internet, and a monitored home security system. Each house is assigned a property manager and house president. Sober living homes have alcohol and drug testing plus regular meetings and a 12-step program.

All homes are required to be free of illicit drugs. Homes are strategically placed within walking distance of work and food, or a bus stop; and each home includes appliances, laundry, unlimited street parking, safety features, and beds.  Some rooms are single occupancy while others allow for double occupancy, children and pets. We do our best to match residents.

Please search www.shelter-registry.com for open rooms & beds that take government funding or nonprofit payments or search this Padsplit link if you are single, working, have money saved up, and you have decent credit to qualify.