Fostering Opportunity-Rich Neighborhoods

With your help, our award-winning affordable housing programs have been reducing homelessness and enabling self-sufficiency among working families, senior citizens and residents with disabilities in the Alexandria area of Fairfax County, Virginia.

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83% of households we help are families with children

We provide stable housing and other services for more than 1,000 working-class families each year

11% of Virginia families live in poverty

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We help low-income families and individuals by providing affordable, stable housing and individualized case management that will help them address structural barriers to long-term housing like poor credit histories, itinerant rental histories, little or no savings, and low incomes.

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GSH provides grants up to $500 per family in the period of a year to prevent evictions, or help with first months rents and security deposits. Grant applicants are carefully evaluated for factors that lead to long-term housing stability, helping us keep households at risk of homelessness from losing their home. Eligible clients must live within the following zip codes: 22303, 22306, 22307, 22308, 22309, 22310, 22315, 22060, and 22079.

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NEWS

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As a once-in-a-century pandemic, the COVID pandemic produced impacts way beyond just its serious health impacts. We are still feeling the effects of the loss of jobs, supply bottlenecks, school shutdowns, and a surge in mental and physical health illnesses. As a staff...

Skyrocketing land values are pricing affordable developers out of N. Va. — but Fairfax Co. may have a solution

By Alex Koma – Staff Reporter, Washington Business Journal Jul 21, 2021, 1:05pm EDT David Levine’s small affordable housing nonprofit has spent years acquiring and rehabbing properties along Fairfax County’s Richmond Highway corridor. But those days may be coming to...

EVENTS

Aug 7Rockin’ Candy Cocktail Class
John Shope with Catoctin Creek is back this summer with a specially curated cocktail class for Good Shepherd Housing. You can’t find these cocktails on just any Pinterest board or […]
Sep 19Good Shepherd Housing and Mount Vernon Kiwanis Club Vacation Raffle
The Mount Vernon Kiwanis Club and Good Shepherd Housing and Family Services are holding a raffle for a vacation! 1 ticket for $20 3 tickets for $50 Prize: A week-long, […]
Sep 19Feel Good for Fall with Revel

See what some of the families are saying about how GSH was able to help them…

Words can’t express the appreciation I have for the rental assistance I received from you all after my car accident left me unable to work. I was able to focus on recovering without fear of losing my home. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

J.S.
“After losing my husband to a heart attack, I was left with 3 children to care for, and no job. GSH helped me apply for a housing voucher and become more self-sufficient. I was able to find a job and become more financially stable. I honestly do not know what I would have done without the help, understanding and strength I received from GSH.”

H.Y.
“Thank you for your assistance programs! You all saved the day and we appreciate all that you do to help families in situations like ours.”

N.A
“With the help of GSH, I have been able to improve my life with self-sufficiency, which has placed me in a better position to purchase my first home! GSH is a great program for someone who is in need of a new beginning in their lives and is working towards making some positive changes.”

S.S.
“We are very grateful for your program. Life has turned for the better for us. After nine months, my husband is now employed again.”

A.H.

Office Address:
8305 Richmond Hwy #17B
Alexandria, VA 22309

Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 15096
Alexandria, VA 22309

Phone: 1-703-768-9404
Fax: 703-768-9419
TTY: 711