This week, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) awarded $98.5 million to 285 local public
housing authorities across the country to provide permanent affordable
housing to nearly 12,000 additional non-elderly people with disabilities.
The housing assistance is provided through HUD's Section
811 Mainstream Housing Choice Voucher Program which provides funding
to housing agencies to assist non-elderly people with disabilities who are:
- transitioning out of
institutional or other separated settings;
- at serious risk of
institutionalization;
- homeless; or
- at risk of becoming
homeless.
This
program helps to further the goals of the Americans with Disabilities Act
by helping persons with disabilities live in the most integrated setting.
The program also encourages partnerships with health and human service
agencies with a demonstrated capacity to coordinate voluntary services and
supports to enable individuals to live independently in the community.
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