Clare Housing

Clare Housings mission is to provide a continuum of affordable and supportive housing options that create healing communities and optimize the health of people living with HIV/AIDS. Inequity in housing access and housing instability are linked with HIV: People living with HIV experience a higher probability of housing loss and instability due to the disabling and impoverishing effects of HIV. Similarly, the experience of homelessness increases the risk of HIV infection. People experiencing homelessness have HIV rates as much as 16 times higher than those who are stably housed. There is no cure for HIV, but medications if taken daily can reduce the virus to the point where it is no longer transmittable. Getting and keeping an undetectable viral load is the best way for people living with HIV to stay healthy and protect others. We opened our first community care home in 1987 for individuals needing end-of-life care resulting from HIV/AIDS. Today, we are the largest provider of HI...