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Housing Series: Universal Design and Accessible Housing
Author(s): Bonnie Milstein
Organization: PATH Technical Assistance Center
Publication Date: 2011
This Housing Series article explains the basic elements of universal design. This information is helpful for service providers who are housing individuals with disabilities. Universal design is a framework for the design of places, objects, information, communication, and policy to be usable by the widest range of people in the widest range of situations without special or separate design. Most simply, universal design is the human-centered desig...
Housing Series: The Impact of Foreclosure on Renters
Author(s): Bonnie Milstein
Organization: PATH Technical Assistance Center
Publication Date: 2011
This Housing Series article describes the impact of foreclosure on renters. The author discusses issues regarding foreclosure and how services providers can help people who lost apartments regain access to housing. Maria Stephens, a mortgage underwriter who made $80,000 a year, faced a reversal of fortune so swift and devastating she still can’t quite fathom it. The single mom went from paying $1,900 a month in rent to bunking at a Virginia...
Assessing Health, Promoting Wellness: Basic First Aid
Author(s): Ken Kraybill, Bonnie Milstein
Organization: PATH Techncal Assistance Center
Publication Date: 2011
While PATH providers often do not have medical training, they regularly encounter consumers who face health issues. This section of Assessing Health, Promoting Wellness provides simple tips on how to take a temperature, pulse, and respiration rate. It also provides information about what symptoms indicate that the outreach worker should call for help. This article provides basic information about how to take a temperature, pulse, and respiration...
Housing Series: Reasonable Accommodation Interview Questions
Author(s): Bonnie Milstein
Organization: PATH Techncal Assistance Center
Publication Date: 2011
This document provides model interview questions to guide service providers and the people they serve to access “reasonable accommodation” in housing. The following questions will guide service providers and the people they serve to access “reasonable accommodation” in housing. A reasonable accommodation in housing is a modification or adjustment that will enable a person with a disability to access the housing. Reasonable accommodation includes...
Housing Series: Finding Housing for People with Criminal Histories
Author(s): Bonnie Milstein
Organization: Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness
Publication Date: 2011
Service providers know the difficulties of accessing decent, safe, and affordable housing for their consumers with criminal histories. This installment of the Housing Series identifies barriers to specific kinds of housing, describes the provider’s role in working to overcome these barriers, and discusses legal resources available to support consumers and providers. (Author) Housing Series: Finding Housing for People with Criminal Histories All...
Housing Series: Reasonable Accommodations in Housing
Author(s): Bonnie Milstein
Organization: Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness
Publication Date: 2011
Many people are familiar with the phrase “reasonable accommodations,” but what does it mean? This Housing Series article explains reasonable accommodations beyond wheel chair ramps and chair lifts. The Fair Housing Act of 1988 and the other disability rights laws, like the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), require more than other civil rights laws. If a landlord refuses to rent to an applicant with a disability who has an emotional support a...