Emergency Housing and Rent Help From Catholic Charities
Catholic Charities, Diocese of Allentown runs a program it calls Financial Strategies Services for people who are losing their housing or struggling to keep it. The programs are meant to help you secure or hold onto safe, affordable housing.
The help is for anyone experiencing housing instability or at risk of becoming unsheltered. The page does not list income limits, a benefit you must already receive, or which towns or counties it covers, so ask when you call.
What is offered is emergency housing assistance, rental support, counseling, budgeting tools, and individualized case management aimed at long term stability and self sufficiency. That means money help toward housing along with a case manager who works with you one on one. The page does not say how much assistance is available, how long it lasts, or how long the process takes.
To start, call 610-435-1541. The page does not describe an online application, an appointment process, or documents to bring, and it does not say whether you can walk in.
Catholic Charities lists a Berks County office at 234 Grace Street, Reading, PA 19611, along with offices at 402 W. Chew Street, Allentown, PA 18102 for Lehigh and Northampton Counties and 99 Valley Street, New Philadelphia, PA 17959 for Carbon and Schuylkill Counties. The page does not say where this housing program meets with people or what its office hours are, so ask on the phone.
The page does not say whether there is any cost, so ask about that too.
Source: catholiccharitiesad.org/services, read September 18, 2026.
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In Catholic Charities’s words
Our programs are designed to support you in securing or maintaining safe, affordable housing. We offer emergency housing assistance, rental support, counseling, budgeting tools, and individualized case management to promote long-term stability and self-sufficiency.
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Catholic Charities
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