The Arc Southeastern Minnesota

Housing Access Coordination

Helps people with disabilities to plan, find, and move into a home of their own

Description

Housing Access Services help adults with disabilities find and move to homes of their own (that are not owned or run by a disability services provider).

Housing Access Coordination (HAC) staff can help with:

• Completing rental applications, lease agreements and publicly financed housing applications
• Developing household budgets
• Locating housing
• Meeting and negotiating with landlords or property staff
• Packing and moving belongings

Learn more about this service when paid for under the waivers in the Community-Based Services Manual.

Additional Information

They can help you move to a place of your own by:

• Accompanying you when you look for housing
• Helping you complete rental applications
• Meeting with you and prospective landlords
• Providing other support

Features

• Payment
  • Brain Injury Waiver (BI)
  • Community Access for Disability Inclusion Waiver (CADI)
  • Community Alternative Care (CAC) Waiver
  • Developmental Disabilities Waiver (DD)

Eligibility

To qualify, you must be:

• Moving from one of the following:
  • Family and group family foster care
  • Hospital
  • Registered Housing with Services
  • Nursing facility
  • An unlicensed home (such as a home that you rent yourself)
  • Intermediate care facilities for persons with developmental disabilities
  • Intensive rehabilitation treatment and Rule 36 settings licensed
  • Institution for Mental Diseases (IMD)
• Moving to an unlicensed home in the community that you rent or own yourself