Our class got the opportunity to have a Skype call with a specialist who works with a nonprofit organization in New Jersey. This company has been working for over 30 years since 1983! Their mission is to offer shelter, services, and supportive housing to homeless and low income people. They are a nonprofit affordable housing development in New Jersey. They have 85 beds in Morris County which is very large for this area. They have programs for families, single men, single women, and safe haven programs for the mentally ill. They also have transitional housing for families. It is next to a school and park for families which was created in 1996. It is in between affordable housing and shelters. Some will leave the shelter and come here to these houses to avoid the shelter. They are apartments but they refer to them as a place for participants in the program. People can stay up to 18 months but there are still programs you need to go to and curfews to follow. The Mount Kemble home is a property that is on the national and state historic register. It is well over 100 years old. It is a 19 room, rooming house for senior women who are in low income. They pay 30% of whatever their income is. They have a full time house manager but most of these women are coming here as a last resort. Their spouses may have died or they exhausted all of their savings and they only have social security to live off of. Another thing they try to do is bring in revenue resources to support the program, this way they don’t have to rely on the government or private donors. This is a furnishing solution which has been going for about a year and a half now. This type of program is something that we need in more states to help the cause of homelessness.