Medical Assistance benefit that helps people with disabilities and seniors find and keep housing

Description

Housing Stabilization Services (HSS) help people with disabilities and seniors to find and keep housing.

Services may include housing transition, sustaining and/or consultation services.

Housing Transition Services helps a person plan for, find and move into housing and may include:

• Helping the person think about preferred housing
• Helping with the housing search and application process
• Developing a budget
• Understanding a lease
• Helping to pay for moving expenses up to $3000 annually when a person qualifies

Housing Sustaining Services helps a person keep their housing after they have moved in and may include:

• Education on tenant-landlord rights and responsibilities
• Coaching to develop relationships with property managers and neighbors
• Training on how to be a good tenant and lease compliance
• Problem-solving to maintain housing stability

Housing Consultation Services helps a person who does not have Medical Assistance (MA) case management and may include:

• Developing a housing-focused person-centered plan based on the person's needs, wants and goals for housing
• Helping a person make an informed choice in their housing transition or sustaining services provider
• Offering resources related to non-housing goals
• Coordinating with other service providers already working with the person

To learn more, see the Housing Benefits 101 Medical Assistance (MA) Housing Stabilization Service website.

Features

• Area Served by County
  • Otter Tail County
  • Wadena County

• Client Conveniences
  • Assistance with community resources
  • Housing Consultation
  • Housing Transition / Sustaining

• Organization Type
  • Community Action Partnership

• Payment
  • Medicaid (Medical Assistance)

Eligibility

• Age 18 or older
• On Medical Assistance (MA)
• Have a disability or disabling condition
• Requires assistance with at least one of the following areas due to a disability or disabling condition:
  • Communication
  • Mobility
  • Decision making
  • Managing challenging behaviors
• Have housing instability, such as:

• Homeless
• Transitioning from an institution or licensed registered setting such as a nursing facility, or certain other group settings like Board and Lodge or Adult Foster Care
• At-risk for homelessness
• At-risk of institutionalization

A person's disability does not have to meet Social Security's adult standards for disability. Disabilities can include physical disabilities, mental illness, substance use disorder and other conditions.

A person cannot be getting similar services from other programs like Moving Home Minnesota, Assertive Community Treatment, Housing Access Coordination or Relocation Service Coordination.

Application Instructions

May self-refer by contacting a Housing Stabilization service provider directly or with the help of a provider or case manager.