What We Do
EXPLORE OUR PROGRAMS & SERVICES
Domestic Violence Initiatives
AAPCI develops and maintains safe and secure transitional housing for women (and men) with dependent children leaving toxic and violent domestic violence and/or intimate partner relationships.
Permanent & Supportive Housing
AAPCI develops and provides clean, safe, state-of-the-art mixed income rentals and special needs housing with on-site wrap-around supportive services for vulnerable New Yorkers.
Senior Housing Programs & Services
AAPCI develops and provides affordable housing with wrap-around services for very low-income seniors, 62 years of age and older, with the goal of helping them age-in-place.
Services For Homeless Single Adults
AAPCI operates transitional emergency shelters for homeless single adults regardless of age, sex or gender. We empower our clients with the resources needed to help them transition from homeless shelter into permanent and/or supportive housing.
Services For Homeless Elderly Women: A Reasonable Accommodation Women's Shelter
AAPCI operates a transitional emergency shelter for single elderly women with special needs. The shelter provides temporary housing and social services to single, elderly women, 62 years of age or older with the goal of transitioning them from homeless shelter into permanent and/or supportive housing within or outside the community.
New Beginnings: An Enhanced General Population Single Men's Shelter
AAPCI operates stand-alone emergency shelters for homeless single adults and homeless families with children. We empower our clients with the resources needed to help them transition from homeless shelter into permanent and/or supportive housing.
Services for Homeless Families with Children
A significant number of AAPCI’s clients are homeless families with dependent children. We provide them with safe, transitional housing where they can acquire the knowledge and skills they need to help them thrive in permanent housing.
Services For Adult Families
AAPCI maintains and provides clean and safe transitional emergency housing for homeless adult families. The goal is to maintain the family as a unit and to help them successfully transition from shelter into independent living.
Children & Youth Initiatives
AAPCI develops and provides clean and safe special needs supportive housing with on-site comprehensive services for At-Risk Youth. The goal is to help young adults successfully transition to mature, independent adulthood.
HIV/AIDS Initiatives
AAPCI develops and provides services and safe, affordable, permanent housing to single men and women living with AIDS as well as single adults living with HIV/AIDS and their families.
REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT
African American Planning Commission, Inc. (AAPCI) incorporated within its mission, the development of permanent, supportive, and affordable housing. With more projects underway, AAPCI has developed 3 transitional, affordable, and supportive housing building, representing more than $257 million in real estate investments to-date; with more to come. We work with municipal, city and state housing finance agencies, community stakeholders, private funders and investors, private developers and industry professionals to develop, own, manage, and bring hundreds of units of mixed-income housing developments to market.
We use a variety of innovative public and private financing tools, and have a track record of working with prominent and M/WBE architects, developers, contractors and/or subcontractors throughout New York City.
Community Impact Over This Year (CY24)
233
New units of affordable housing under construction
2,856
Clients served across our programs
195
Days average length of shelter stay
41
Formerly homeless clients move into permanent housing, on average, monthly
237
Families with children moved from physically abusive relationships into transitional domestic violence shelters
