The Assisted Living Program (ALP) provides access to a pool of set-aside rental subsidies to low income, homeless, disabled persons living with HIV disease. Each participant works with a program case manager/housing support specialist who provides assistance tailored to the individual and their households, including an active housing search and then on-going supportive services. The program currently provides services and subsidies for approximately 200 households in the Greater Boston area.

Since 1995, an expansion of ALP known as the Tenant Based Rental Assistance (TBRA) Initiative has offered access to subsidies and services to several other regions of the state. Through TBRA approximately another 100 households are served outside of Greater Boston.

ALP partners with regional housing agencies across the state that administer rental subsidies for program participants. In Greater Boston, ALP partners with Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership. Subsidies are offered through various HUD programs including Shelter Plus Care, HOPWA, and HCVP/Section 8, as well as from the State of Massachusetts.

A complex network of funding supports ALP services, including HOPWA and SHP funding from Boston's Department of Neighborhood Development; HOPWA funding from several other regional HOPWA grantees (including Lowell, Worcester, and Providence); HOPWA funding directly from HUD as part of a Special Project of National Significance; and state dollars through the Department of Public Health HIV/AIDS Bureau.