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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): Emily Miller
Publication Date: 1996
This report is a synthesis of current and past literature regarding the evolution of integration as well as an inventory of some current federal integration efforts. The history and evolution of the concept of integration from the 1960s until present day is detailed including: the war on poverty; definition of integration; systems integration versus service integration; integration on a continuum; common themes in current federal integration ef...