Eviction Prevention
Keeping area residents safely in their homes before homelessness begins.
One of Bethesda Cares' highest priorities is to prevent homelessness in the first place. We assist county residents under severe financial distress — keeping families housed and utilities on.
Stop homelessness
before it starts.
Collaborating with a large network of local providers, we partner to package grant assistance to county residents under severe financial distress. Our Eviction Prevention Manager reviews each request personally — because every situation is different, and every family's housing matters.
After an individual undergoes an approval process, we send a grant directly to the appropriate landlord or utility company. This critical safety-net program has helped thousands of low-income residents of our county avoid homelessness or the loss of their utilities.
Direct grant assistance sent to landlords and utility providers — never intermediaries — ensuring help reaches its destination quickly and reliably.
Prevention is more humane and more cost-effective than response. Keeping a family housed costs far less — in every sense — than helping them recover from homelessness.
Every request is reviewed individually. We move quickly, because housing instability cannot wait.
From request to resolution.
Individuals facing eviction or utility shut-off contact our Prevention team. We work with a broad network of local providers to reach residents throughout the county.
Our Eviction Prevention Manager personally reviews every request. After an individual undergoes an approval process, we move quickly — because housing instability cannot wait.
We send the grant directly to the appropriate landlord or utility provider — ensuring assistance reaches its destination without delay or intermediary.
Behind every grant, a family.
Eviction prevention works because the people who need it are working, parenting, and building lives — they just need a bridge. These are five of the people we've helped.
A survivor of domestic violence who finally left her fiancé. She was living on the street — spending her nights at a 24-hour CVS or in emergency room waiting areas. Even so, she showed up to her job as a security guard every single day. We helped her find an apartment and covered her first month's rent.
Self-supporting ever sinceA single mother of two whose husband had died, working as a pharmacy assistant. When her pharmacy closed, she found a new job — but received an eviction notice two weeks before her start date. Grant funds ensured that she and her children stayed safely in their home. She never had to change her children's schools.
Family remained in their homeA veteran and single father of twin seven-year-old daughters. He was working two jobs until PTSD intervened. Awaiting disability payments with no income, one grant prevented his family's eviction.
Eviction prevented
Housing stability
cannot wait.
Our mission is to prevent, ease and end homelessness in our community. Our vision is that we all have the security of housing to live with dignity, purpose, and community connection.
We review every request — and we respond.
To apply for eviction prevention support or utility assistance, contact our Prevention team directly. Every application is reviewed individually. You do not need to be in full crisis to reach out — early contact gives us more options to help.
Bethesda Cares is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. EIN #52-1634919. We have been working to end homelessness in Montgomery County, Maryland since 1988. Eviction Prevention is one of five programs we operate.