About the CSH Supportive Housing Summit  

 Since 2015, the CSH Supportive Housing Summit has brought together tenants, people with lived experiences of homelessness, service providers, developers, property managers, and funders for a vibrant gathering that explores innovations in the supportive housing field. Each year, the Summit generates fresh ideas that propel supportive housing forward, fostering collaboration and transformative impact.

We are thrilled to return to Chicago in 2025, the city where it all began. The conference will be held in-person at the Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, providing a unique opportunity for more than 1,000 attendees from diverse sectors and backgrounds to engage with current challenges, explore new solutions, and shape the future of supportive housing.

About Supportive Housing  

Supportive housing is affordable housing combined with services that help people facing complex barriers to housing find a safe place to live. Supportive housing is a proven intervention that typically serves people experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness. Quality supportive housing programs connect tenants to a range of services that help them move beyond crisis and to stability where they can thrive. In order to achieve this, programs must be sufficiently funded long-term, and designed inclusively, with an anti-racist approach.   

Affordable housing is a critical necessity and one of the most powerful predictors of health, education, economic, and other key factors in a person’s life. Insufficient funding for affordable housing and support services as well as centuries of systemic racism and discrimination mean that people who face barriers due to poverty, race, gender, LBTQIA+ identity, and disability are denied the right to housing. 

The country is in a severe affordable housing shortage, which impacts people who already face the highest barriers to accessing housing the most. In addition, a lack of ongoing and adequate funding for services paired with overreliance on crisis-based institutions has exacerbated the need for supportive housing.