Future of Home for People With HIV Is at Risk
Provincetown Housing Authority and AIDS Support Group at odds over Foley House
By Paul Benson Jan 28, 2026
PROVINCETOWN — Since February 1996, the Alice Foley House, a bright yellow congregate living home with 10 bedrooms and two kitchens in Provincetown’s East End, has been unique on Cape Cod as the only housing dedicated to low-income people living with HIV.
The Foley House at 214 Bradford St. was custom-built as congregate housing for low-income people with HIV in 1995. Its first tenants arrived in February 1996, and more than 75 people have lived there in the 30 years since, according to the AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod. (Photo by Paul Benson)
The house opened at the height of the AIDS epidemic, when HIV was one of the leading causes of death in the country. It was funded through a federal grant program and operated by two partners: the Provincetown Housing Authority, which owns the land and the building, and the AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod, which staffs the house with caseworkers who coordinate medical care and social services.
Federal funding rules have shifted since the 1990s, however, and in 2015 the housing authority lost the grant that had supplemented tenants’ rent and paid the operating and capital costs at the property.
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