Resources
Free tools for the housing conversation you are about to have.
Fourteen supplied resources covering agency requirements, discharge planning, reentry, recovery housing, affordability, veterans, accommodation and property partnerships. Each is dated and versioned, and each has a landing page explaining what is inside before you download.
Practical tools
Two guided planners.
Answer a set of informational questions and get a summary you can bring to a conversation. Neither tool makes a decision about you — both route to a person.
Agency Housing Needs Planner
Work through counties, household size, room format, affordability and referral requirements, and finish with a summary you can send us or use internally.
Open the plannerProperty Partnership Readiness Check
Work through ownership authority, proposed use, occupancy, condition, access and costs, and see what a partnership review would ask you.
Open the readiness checkResource library
Fourteen resources, grouped by what you are trying to do.
Every resource is free. Each landing page tells you who it is for, what problem it solves and what is inside, so you know whether it is worth your time before you open it.
Reentry & supervision
2Returning Citizen Housing Preparation
Housing is one of the hardest pieces of a reentry plan, and address approval is usually the pinch point. This tool lays out what to prepare so the housing conversation is not the thing that delays release.
v1.0 · 2026-10-10 · PartnershipsSupervision Housing Address Checklist
Address approval involves a set of checks that are easy to work through out of order. This checklist puts them in sequence and names what evidence is needed at each step.
v1.0 · 2026-10-10 · PartnershipsAffordability
2Affordable Shared Housing Cost Planner
Headline rent rarely reflects what a resident actually pays each month. This planner puts the whole monthly figure in one place so a comparison is honest.
v1.0 · 2026-10-10 · PartnershipsFurnished Room and Utilities Checklist
A room described as furnished and all-inclusive can still leave a resident buying a bed, a lamp and a deposit for the power account. This checklist turns 'included' into a specific list.
v1.0 · 2026-10-10 · PartnershipsNavigation & shelter
2Housing Resources and Shelter Navigation
People navigating out of crisis need to be routed quickly and correctly, and a wrong referral costs time they do not have. This tool lays out what sits where, so navigation is faster.
v1.0 · 2026-10-10 · PartnershipsBring Shared Housing to Your NC Community
Communities that need housing often have no structured way to say so. This tool gives a local advocate the shape of a useful case — what to document, and how to present it.
v1.0 · 2026-10-10 · ExpansionProperty & provider partners
2Landlord Shared Housing Partnership Readiness
Owners are often asked to consider a housing arrangement without knowing what the review actually involves. This checklist sets out the questions in advance, so a conversation starts from a common footing.
v1.0 · 2026-10-10 · PartnershipsHousing Provider Referral Readiness
A provider with capacity to fill is not always ready to receive referrals, and the gaps only surface once a referral is in progress. This tool finds those gaps first.
v1.0 · 2026-10-10 · PartnershipsAbout the file status badges
Knowledge Center
Our own process documents.
Alongside the resource library, these are the documents describing how we work — the frameworks we use with agencies and property partners, and our scope and payment positions.
Explainers
Understanding the housing landscape.
Shared housing is one option among several, and the differences matter when you are advising someone. These explainers cover the distinctions plainly.
Shared housing and other housing types explained
How shared housing differs from shelter, halfway houses, assisted living and recovery housing — and when each is the right answer.
ReadQuality and Resident Rights
What residents can expect from us: transparent costs, individualized accommodation, privacy, a complaints route and accountable communication.
ReadCorrections and editorial review
How we source, review and correct published material — including how to raise an error with us and what happens next.
ReadIndependent Housing Scope Overview
Exactly what our shared housing model includes, and what it explicitly does not.
ReadPrefer a conversation to a document?
A resource answers the general question. A partnership conversation answers yours — and a team member will follow up on whatever you raise.