Going It Alone : The Struggle to Expand Housing Opportunities for People with Disabilities
Technical assistance manual which focuses on how nonprofit disability and advocacy organizations can encourage the local affordable housing system to be more responsive to the needs of low-income adults with severe disabilities. Includes a report documenting barriers which have constrained the disability community's housing efforts, identifies examples of communities which have moved most successfully towards "best practices" to expand both homeownership and rental housing options for people with disabilities, and assesses the need for a comprehensive program of housing technical assistance targeted to the disability community. Major findings of the report address: the lack of knowledge in the disability community of available programs; lack of linkages between the disability community and affordable housing providers, funders, and public housing authorities and lack of priority given by state and local housing officials to the housing needs of people with disabilities.
Homeownership for People with Disabilities
Addresses the issue of homeownership for people with disabilities (PWDs) and continuing challenges confronting PWDs who want to become homeowners, and provides case studies of successful homeownership initiatives which are aiding PWDs., including the Fannie Mae HomeChoice mortgage program. Trusts and homeownership are also discussed.
Section 8 Made Simple: Using the Housing Choice Voucher Program to Assist People with Disabilities (2nd Edition)
Designed to assist members of the disability community - including self-advocates, case managers, family members, advocates, and direct service providers - in navigating the complexities of the Section 8 Program. Chapter headings are as follows: Overview of the Section 8 Program; How the Section 8 Program is Administered; Eligibility, Applications, and The Waiting List Process; Screening, Verification, and Appeals; Determining the Total Tenant Payment and The Section 8 Rent Subsidy; Getting a Section 8 Voucher and Obtaining Housing; Keeping a Section 8 Voucher; Reasonable Accommodation and Reasonable Modification; Section 8 Project-Based Assistance; and Section 8 and Homeownership Assistance.
State of the Nation's Housing 2004
Annual report provides an overview of current information on housing trends in the United States. Includes housing markets, demographic forces, homeownership, rental properties, and low-income housing statistics. Special attention is paid to the need for affordable housing, the impact of race and age on housing, and vacancies. Yearly comparison tables are included.
Strengthening Community-Based Housing in the Mid-South Delta: A Policy Development Paper
This report contains the recommendations of the Housing Assistance Council (HAC) for increasing the housing development capacity of community-based organizations (CBOs) in the Mid-South Delta, with an emphasis on increasing CBOs' capacity to produce affordable housing. It is based on research conducted during the summer of 2001 under a memorandum of agreement with the Enterprise Corporation of the Delta (ECD). HAC's recommendations are primarily based on the survey responses of 23 community-based organizations in the ECD's 58-county service area in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.1 In the survey, HAC inquired about the organizations': productivity, knowledge of housing programs, biggest challenges (over the next five years), and their recommendations for changing the way that public agencies and/or intermediaries work with them. The priorities of the Mid-South Delta community-based housing organizations, as expressed in their survey responses, can be grouped into four categories: finding additional resources to build low-income housing, finding resources for staff and administration costs and money to build staff capacity, finding and/or qualifying participants for mortgage programs, and increasing the flexibility of low-income mortgage programs. The recommendations presented in the attached document address these priorities by suggesting ways to: increase cooperation and flexibility from the public and private sectors as they consider investment opportunities with community-based housing organizations; and broaden the use of state and national program funding to create more housing, primarily homeownership, opportunities for low-income Delta residents. Appendices include survey tool and results, and census data.
Information gathered from AIDS Housing of Washington aidshousing.org
