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Housing is Healthcare

People impacted by HIV/AIDS deserve to more than survive, but to fully live

Established in 1988, we are Atlanta’s oldest and largest provider of permanent housing for low-income and homeless individuals and families impacted by HIV/AIDS. Status: Home provides a continuum of housing options, healthcare resources, and supportive services that contribute to a resident’s overall self-sufficiency.
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Housing is Healthcare

Home is a bright light when all is dark

Facilities-based Housing

Our Facilities-Based Housing serves single adults in efficiency apartments. Residents have on-site access to support staff, and services including case management and medical care coordination. Our current facility is dedicated to single adults living with AIDS who require more concentrated care.

Master-lease Housing

Our master-lease housing provides autonomous, independent living solutions in subsidized rental units throughout Atlanta to individuals and families.

Tenant-Based Rental Assistance (TBRA)

We help families and individuals who are able to hold a lease in their name maintain their housing by providing monthly rental subsidies for 12 – 24 months.
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Via staff and community partners, Status: Home provides wrap-around services to individuals in all of our housing programs, including case management, linkage to HIV care, employment services, mental health services, and legal services.

Our clients are referred to us via Atlanta’s Coordinated Entry System.

From One Into Hundreds of Homes in Atlanta

Discover our history and evolution over 35 years

What is today Status: Home originated as Jerusalem House, and began in 1988 as a coalition of Atlanta’s business, religious, civic, and medical community leaders who conceptualized a residential facility for the growing number of people who’d lost their homes due to AIDS. In 1989, Status: Home was one house that could serve five individuals with HIV/AIDS.

Today, with nearly 250 housing units and counting, we provide homes for almost 300 residents, including nearly 100 children, and we’re responsible for more than 70% of Atlanta’s permanent supportive housing for individuals and families impacted by HIV/AIDS.

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Light up Atlanta with Status: Home

Be Part of Atlanta’s Bright & Healthy Future

Volunteer

Discover opportunities for individuals and groups, from painting and landscaping projects to social activities with our residents. Join forces with fellow Atlantans and give back, together.
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Philanthropy Circle

Become a member in our Status: Home Philanthropy Circle and help ensure individuals and families impacted by HIV/AIDS continue to have access to housing and supportive services.
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Make a Donation

Give today for great impact. One-time or monthly financial donations, food boxes and hygiene items, your kindness will directly help men, women, and children in HIV/AIDS housing.
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Meet Our Dedicated Team

A Message from Maryum Phillips:

“Status: Home has made it our mission to ensure that people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS have access to the housing that is critical to their survival. At Status: Home, we know that Housing is Healthcare.”
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Maryum Phillips

President and Chief Executive Officer

July 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025

Status: Home Board of Directors

Status: Home is guided by a dedicated group of community leaders committed to our mission. Our all-volunteer Board of Directors includes individuals with expertise in a wide variety of areas, including law, real estate, and finance.

Board of Directors Officers

  • Joe Royals: Chair, Truist
  • Brett Haynie: Vice Chair, PwC
  • David McEachern:
    Treasurer, Keller Williams
  • Stephanie Laster:
    Secretary, Health Educator, Former Resident
  • Mike McCoy:
    Immediate Past Chair

Board of Directors

  • Shanika Asher: EY
  • Marcus D. Benning, Esq.:  Regions Bank
  • Shirley Mitchell Ferrell:
    S&C Mitchell Investments
  • Dena Hasty: Norfolk Southern
  • Joey Keeney: My CFO – ATL
  • Matthew Mills: Wells Fargo Bank
  • Jamee Lawson Nelson: AutoDesk
  • Lauren Waits:
    Community & Policy Advocate

Advisory Council

  • Monique Quindsland:
    Frazier & Deeter
  • R. Kirk Rich:
    Avison Young
  • Joe Royals:
    Truist
  • Jonathan Tucker:
    KBKG
  • Evelyn G. Ullman:
    Jerusalem House Co-Founder

Our Partners & Resources

Status: Home collaborates and partners with 25 community agencies to meet our residents’ changing needs and provide valuable services to enhance their quality of life. The relationships we have established are vitally important for our residents as well as the homeless and HIV/AIDS community throughout Greater Atlanta.
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Status: Home Overview

Status: Home is a 501(c)(3) organization that has demonstrated consistent success in raising private funding from a broad section of foundations, corporations, religious groups, community, and civic organizations, and individuals. Our primary funding partners are government sources on the local, state, and national level – 91 cents of every dollar raised goes directly to program expenses.
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Status: Home (formerly Jerusalem House) is a 501(c)(3) charity registered in the state of Georgia.
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