Housing Stability Resources

Housing Stability Drop-In Program

Click here for the current Drop-In Hours flyer.

Salem’s Housing Stability Drop-In Program provides housing information and resources to educate and advise Salem owners and residents about their housing rights, responsibilities, and opportunities. The program is offered free to Salem’s lower-income tenants and to Salem’s landlords with lower-income tenants, in order to work toward developing solutions and resolving housing matters, in order to foster housing stabilization. The program is a collaboration between the City of Salem and the Essex County Bar Association.  It is funded with CDBG-CV funds provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development through the City of Salem Department of Planning and Community Development. Drop-In & Live Call-In Hours unless otherwise noted in flyer*

Or call the hotline at (978) 500-0973. Please leave a message.

Rental Assistance

• RAFT (rental assistance for families in transition) The RAFT program helps keep households in stable housing when facing eviction, loss of utilities, and other housing emergencies, provides qualifying households with up to $7,000 per household in a 12-month period, to preserve current housing or move to new housing. Apply here. 
• NSCAP (North Shore Community Action Programs) assists qualified renters to help to pay for rent owed. Apply here.
• Catholic Charities North -- 280 Washington St.-- Salem, MA. 01970 -- 978 740-6923 ext 13 offers a small amount of rent and utility assistance for qualified Salem residents
• The Salvation Army North Shore -- 93 North Street -- Salem, MA. 01970 -- 978 744-5181  offers a small amount of rent and utility assistance for qualified Salem residents

• Mass Union of Public Housing Tenants Founded by public housing residents in 1967 and incorporated in 1971, the Massachusetts Union of Public Housing Tenants is the first statewide public housing tenants’ organization in the nation.
• Mass Alliance for HUD Tenants The Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants (MAHT) organizes, trains, and provides technical assistance to tenant groups in privately owned HUD or Mass Housing subsidized multifamily housing.
• City Life/Vida Urbana is a grassroots community organization committed to fighting for racial, social, and economic justice and gender equality by building working-class power. City Life believes one of the fundamental human rights is the right to affordable housing. 

• Charter St. Tenants Association
• Pioneer Terrace Tenant Association
• Morency Manor Tenant Organization
• Leefort Terrace Tenant Association
• Dalton House Tenant Association
• Rainbow Terrace tenants Association

For information about housing search, statewide anti-displacement initiatives and Salem's Neighborhood Stability Coordinator click here

For more information about Salem's other housing programs click here