Cressvale Housing Coalition brings service organizations and neighborhood volunteers together around a practical goal: keep more residents in safe, stable homes.
The coalition formed in 2017 after a severe winter exposed the gaps between emergency shelter, home repair, and rental-assistance providers. A resident could reach one organization and still have no clear path to the next. Coalition members began sharing referral information, coordinating winter beds, and organizing small repair weekends.
That work continues throughout the year.
Looking for the right kind of help?
Our member organizations work in different parts of the housing system. The coalition’s overview explains where repair referrals, housing-stability support, landlord-tenant information, and winter coordination fit—and where the coalition cannot help.
Safe Steps repair weekends
Safe Steps brings screened repair projects and volunteer crews together for limited work that can make an occupied home safer. The program focuses on small health-and-safety repairs, not emergency construction or full renovation.
Coordination is part of the work
A repair crew cannot resolve every cause of housing instability. A referral sheet cannot create an available apartment. Winter beds do not replace permanent housing. The coalition’s role is to keep those separate efforts connected, identify gaps, and make the limits visible.
Our current work includes:
- repair weekends for qualifying small projects;
- a landlord-tenant referral sheet maintained by member organizations;
- winter bed coordination across participating providers; and
- public advocacy for rehabilitation, affordability, and measurable housing commitments.
Recent work
The Safe Steps repair waitlist reopened in May after a winter pause. Coalition members are also reviewing the referral sheet before the next printed edition.
Our election endorsement is one dated advocacy decision within that year-round work. Program updates and organizational records remain together in the coalition update archive.