Carrfour Supportive Housing

•	Carrfour will participate in drastically reducing the number of homeless people in Miami-Dade County by exercising a leadership role in the development and operation of supportive housing.
•	Carrfour will control 1,500 supportive housing units by 2014, supplying half of the estimated community demand at this time.
•	Carrfour will provide a variety of project types and geographical locations throughout the community to provide individual choice based on needs and preferences.
•	Carrfour will aggressively seek to organize the resources, both public and private, needed to accomplish this.
•	Carrfour will change how people think about supportive housing by creating beautiful, well-run complexes that complement and enhance the neighborhood and by committing itself to the improvement of the surrounding neighborhood.
•	Carrfour’s supportive housing will be places filled with hope and tools for individual success, which celebrate and inspire the human spirit of all who participate in them, residents, staff and volunteers alike.

“Carrfour Stepped in and gave me independent living. They gave me skills to know how to maintain myself and how to live again because I had lost all that. My life had become unmanageable. Now I have a bank account. I have a car, I have a job and I am getting an education. What more Can I ask for?

Karen-
Carrfour Resident

•	Carrfour will measure its success by the effect on the lives of its residents. Carrfour will provide the best “state of the art” in employment and social services as well as a high-quality physical environment. Above all, we will not “warehouse” people.
•	Carrfour will be operated so as to attract resources to its mission and talented, committed people to its Board of Directors, Staff and Volunteer Corps by the quality of its work.