Charlotte, N.C. (August 30, 2007) – Georgia residents are seeing the benefits of a service that helps agency workers find homes for those with special needs.

Since the winter-2006 rollout of the Special Needs Housing Search feature, a secure add-on to the Socialserve.com Housing Locator Service, Georgia caseworkers have located housing for hundreds of traditionally hard-to-place clients. In addition, the system gives mom-and-pop landlords the chance to securely and anonymously offer their properties for populations they may previously have not known how to reach out to, such as the frail and elderly, disaster victims, developmentally disabled tenants and more.

Every day, authorized professional case-workers are accessing the secured system to locate properties for their clients. The feature has resulted in an incredible variety of scattered-site special-needs housing – in small and large apartment complexes, duplexes and single-family homes – giving tenants and landlords options that were just not available prior to the service being available to Georgia agency workers.

Georgia was a pilot project for this service, which Socialserve.com now looks to provide to other regions around the country. "We look forward to more success stories as agencies are adopting this new feature and using the password-protected tool to find housing housing for their special-needs clients," said Van Gottel, CEO of Socialserve.com. "Early adoption of the service is encouraging, and the sheer number of placements exceeds our wildest dreams!"

Please contact Nina Fedele at nina@socialserve.com or 704-334-8722 for more information on the Socialserve.com Special Needs Search service.