B2: How the Medicaid Housing Supports Program (HSP) Helps Older Adults Stayed Housed
Tuesday, June 16 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Target Audience: Affordable Senior Housing; Service Coordinators; Assisted Living/Personal Care; Clinical; Home Care + HCBS
This panel will explore how services offered through the Medicaid Housing Supports Program (HSP) – including home modifications, tenancy supports, and housing navigation – can help older adults remain safely housed. HSP is under Medicaid’s Home and Community-based Supports. Older adults facing housing instability often encounter barriers that threaten their health and well-being. HSP provides critical benefits to secure and maintain stable housing, such as one-time move-in assistance and residential modifications that make living spaces safe and habitable. Given today’s housing and health care challenges, attendees will learn how these resources can prevent homelessness and promote stability for older adults. The discussion will be moderated by the Supportive Housing Association of NJ and feature panelists from CSH, service providers implementing HSP with older adult populations, and potentially representatives from Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) and Medicaid leadership.
NAB/NCERS; HUD
Speaker Information
Senior Program Manager, CSH
Cassondra Warney is a Senior Program Manager on CSH’s Metro’s Team (New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania). She is a public policy expert with 10+ years of experience managing housing, healthy aging and criminal legal reform initiatives for think tanks, consultancies, and government agencies. Her expertise is in facilitating, consensus building and fundraising to deliver transformative solutions for our communities in need. She leads the New Jersey portfolio, with a focus on healthy aging in supportive housing and increasing affordable housing development.
Executive Director, Supportive Housing Association of NJ
Kate Kelly became Executive Director of the Supportive Housing Association of New Jersey (SHA) in 2025 after joining the organization in 2021 to lead its Integrated Community Project and then serve as its Associate Executive Director. She dedicates her work to advance SHA’s mission to strengthen supportive housing and expand opportunities for people with special needs across New Jersey.
Kate brings over twenty-five years of non-profit experience in housing policy and advocacy. At Monarch Housing Associates, she directed public policy and communications efforts focused on ending homelessness. Her efforts with the Partnership for Strong Communities in Connecticut expanded supportive housing access.
As a connector and advocate, Kate builds partnerships across sectors and centers the voices of people with lived experience. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Government from the University of Notre Dame and a Master’s in Social Work from the University of Connecticut.
