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30 years of measurable returns.

NHS of Queens has grown into a multi-program model serving 14,600 residents in 2024 and expanding further in 2025. Every dollar of donor and public support has produced measurable, public-facing returns for Queens — and for the city and state.

CUMULATIVE : 1994 - 2024

Three decades. The numbers.

1,15,307

Queens residents directly served

Across counseling, education, housing assistance, workforce, and community programs.

17,097

Counseling sessions delivered

Homebuyer and homeowner counseling sessions across three decades, in English and Spanish.

$148.6M

Mortgage financing secured

Capital deployed directly into Queens housing markets through first-time homebuyer counseling and DPA support.

$88.9M

Social costs prevented

Capital deployed directly into Queens housing markets through first-time homebuyer counseling and DPA support.

PROGRAM OUTCOMES

What 30 years of integrated programming produced.

Homeownership Created

827

$6.7M

$2.18M

First-time homebuyers — LMI families


Down payment assistance distributed


Equity gained by buyers since 2020


Workforce Pipeline

2633

4085

207

Job placements (LaGuardia Career Ctr.)


Job referrals processed


Workforce dev. participants in 2025


Digital Literacy

132

132

260

Digital literacy graduates


Computers distributed


Total registered across cohorts


Foreclosure Prevention

1278

804

$88.9M

Households kept in their homes


Homeowners counseled since 2020


Social cost prevented


Food Security

255878

6077

381

Meals served to neighbors


Residents reached


Adopt-a-Family households (2025)


Home Repair Support

200

$1.27M

$4M+

Homes rehabilitated


Total rehab investment deployed


Public funding secured for The Casita


GROWTH TRAJECTORY

From recovery to scaled impact.

When the pandemic disrupted Queens in 2020, NHSQ stayed open. The years since show a service organization that has not just recovered, but scaled and diversified across every program area — even as community demand has continued to grow.

Individuals Served · Year-Over-Year

9,780

2020

7,000

2021

8,851

2022

4,256

2023

14,600

2024

54,801 individuals served, 2020–2025 (6-year cumulative).

10.314

2025

THE PUBLIC - FINANCE ARGUMENT

Every dollar in NHSQ produces a public cost dollar avoided.

NHS of Queens has prevented an estimated $88.9 million in downstream social costs to New York City and State — costs that would otherwise fall on emergency housing, shelter, healthcare, and child-welfare systems. This is the core public-finance argument for sustaining and expanding NHSQ's capacity.

The Casita is not an organizational expansion request. It is the build-out of capacity that the existing demand has already justified — three decades of measurable, year-over-year evidence.

A HUD-certified nonprofit community development corporation serving Queens, NY. Strengthening neighborhoods and expanding access to safe, stable, affordable housing across the borough since 1994.

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94-33 Corona Avenue Elmhurst, NY 11373
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