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Author(s): Ann O'Hara, Emily Cooper
Publication Date: 2002
The Section 8 program is one of the most important federal housing programs available to assist people with disabilities. With Section 8 housing assistance, people with disabilities can become more independent and have the opportunity for full community integration. It is now the largest federal housing program targeted to extremely low-income households. In fiscal year 2002, Congress appropriated approximately $15 billion in continued funding fo...
Author(s): Ann O'Hara, Emily Miller
Organization: Technical Assistance Collaborative
Publication Date: 2000
The complexities of the affordable housing delivery system – and the confusing rules and policies associated with government housing programs – are preventing low income people with disabilities from accessing decent and affordable housing. These barriers to housing are compounded by the stigma and discrimination which pervades the housing market, and the reluctance of many government housing officials to acknowledge and address the housing needs...
Author(s): Ann O'Hara, Emily Miller
Publication Date: 2010
Priced Out is published every two years by the Technical Assistance Collaborative (TAC) and the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) Housing Task Force to call public attention to this unrelenting housing crisis – which remains largely hidden from public view. Across the nation, millions of people with the most significant and long-term disabilities whose income is based on SSI simply do not have enough money to pay for housing...
Author(s): Marie Herb, Emily Miller, Ann O'Hara
Publication Date: 2003
This toolkit provides guidance and hands-on information to public mental health agencies, housing officials, service providers, and families and individuals with mental illnesses who are interested in expanding housing opportunities for people with mental illnesses. The fifteen fact sheets provide detailed information about resources available to finance the creation of new housing and new ways to think about housing options. In addition there ar...
Author(s): Kathryn McHugh, Emily Miller, Ann O'Hara
Publication Date: 1999
This issue of Opening Doors is devoted to the topic of housing development — the “bricks and mortar” approach which produces new units of affordable housing for people with low incomes, especially for people with disabilities. The actual production of new housing in the community for people with disabilities is just one of many strategies used to expand housing opportunities — but it may be the most difficult to accomplish. (Authors)
Author(s): Ann O'Hara, Emily Cooper
Publication Date: 2002
Section 8 Made Simple is not a manual for Public Housing Agencies to learn how to administer the Section 8 program. Rather, it is a guide to help understand how the Section 8 program can be used to meet the specific housing needs of people with disabilities. With this information, people with disabilities, their families, advocates, and service providers will be more prepared to effectively engage Public Housing Agency staff and help people w...
Author(s): Emily Cooper, Ann O'Hara
Publication Date: 2003
This issue of Opening Doors focuses on the recent Technical Assistance Collaborative (TAC) publication Priced Out in 2002: Housing Crisis Worsens for People with Disabilities. The authors discuss the major findings, and methodology of this report, and explore topics including the housing crisis, SSI benefits, highest-cost housing markets, median income by state, housing wages, and housing affordability for people with disabilities. (Authors)
Author(s): Elizabeth Edgar, Ann O'Hara, Brian Smith, Andrew Zovitoski
Publication Date: 1999
The message in Priced Out in 1998 is a simple one! In 1998, there was not one county or metropolitan area in the United States where a person receiving SSI benefits could actually follow federal guidelines for housing affordability and pay only 30 percent of their monthly income for rent. Instead, as a national average, a person with a disability must spend 69 percent of his or her SSI monthly income to rent a modest one-bedroom apartment priced...
Author(s): Emily Cooper, Ann O'Hara
Publication Date: 2003
Beginning in the 1990s, state housing agencies began to play an increasingly important role in creating affordable housing for low-income households. Because of the complexities associated with state housing agencies, people with disabilities and their housing advocates may have trouble “deciphering” how state housing agencies can assist people with disabilities. This confusion is not surprising since: • Many states have more than one state ag...
Housing for People with Mental Illness: Update of a Report to the President's New Freedom Commission
Author(s): Ann O'Hara
Publication Date: 2007
A significant barrier to participation in community life for people with serious mental illness is the lack of decent, safe, affordable, and integrated housing of their choice linked with supportive services. The nation's affordable housing and mental health systems have historically failed to address consumers' housing needs and choices. The lack of housing has resulted in disproportionately high rates of homelessness and chronic homelessness. T...