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  • Housing Choice Vouchers Targeted to Non-Elderly Persons with Disabilities – Another Tool to Help End Homelessness

    Issue Brief | Publication | December 2014

    Over the past decades, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has awarded almost 55,000 Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers specifically targeted to non-elderly people with disabilities to Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) across the nation. Given the high number of people who experience homelessness with disabilities, these…

  • Key Considerations for Serving Chronically Homeless Persons in CoC-Funded Permanent Supportive Housing

    Homelessness | Issue Brief | Publication | December 2014

    On July 28, 2014, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued Notice (CPD-14-012) on Prioritizing Persons Experiencing Chronic Homelessness and Other Vulnerable Homeless Persons in Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH). The Notice encourages Continuums of Care (CoCs) and recipients of HUD CoC Program funding to prioritize persons…

  • Strategies for Creating Integrated Supportive Housing for People with Disabilities

    Affordable Housing | Medicaid | Olmstead & Community Integration | Issue Brief | Publication | June 2013

    Securing appropriate housing options for Money Follows the Person (MFP) participants has historically been a challenge for MFP Programs. This brief - developed by TAC as part of the Housing Capacity Building Initiative for Community Living Project, a collaboration of the U.S. Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)…

  • Accessing Multifamily Housing for Money Follows the Person Participants

    Affordable Housing | Medicaid | Olmstead & Community Integration | Issue Brief | Publication | June 2013

    This brief - developed by TAC as part of the Housing Capacity Building Initiative for Community Living Project, under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Money Follows the Person Rebalancing Demonstration - concentrates on specific federal resources that help create affordable housing units in rental developments within communities,…

  • Supporting Community Living: Olmstead and Money Follows the Person (MFP)

    Olmstead & Community Integration | Issue Brief | Publication | January 2013

    This brief - developed by TAC as part of the Housing Capacity Building Initiative for Community Living Project, under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Money Follows the Person (MFP) Rebalancing Demonstration - offers guidance to state policy makers on how MFP can be utilized to assist…

  • New Section 811 Supportive Housing Legislation Introduced in U.S. Congress

    Affordable Housing | Issue Brief | Publication | October 2012

    Opening Doors is a publication of TAC and the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) Housing Task Force that provides housing information for the disability community. This issue describes critically important legislation that will help address the enormous and unrelenting housing crisis faced by millions of extremely low-income people…