Public Housing Family Self-Sufficiency
The NWHA operate Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) for public housing residents. The FSS program is designed to help unemployed or underemployed residents achieve economic self-sufficiency. Participants are encouraged to obtain additional education, job training, counseling, volunteer experience, budgeting assistance and to learn healthy lifestyle behaviors. They are given five years to accomplish this goal and receive individual case management during the tenure of the program.