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National Housing Resources

National Rights and Legal Issues

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Housing Technical Assistance, Trainings, and Publications

  • Apartments.com
    National, regional, and local listings of market rate apartments. Accessibility is one of the amenities by which the list can be sorted.
  • ILRU Webcasts
    "Affordable, Accessible, Integrated Housing: Putting the Puzzle Together When the Pieces Don't Fit: Part 1 & 2", presented by Steve Gold, disability rights attorney.
    Part 1 | Part 2
  • Opening Doors
    Opening Doors is a joint housing initiative among The Technical Assistance Collaborative (TAC), the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD), and the Melville Charitable Trust. It is designed to provide information and technical assistance on affordable housing issues to people with disabilities, their families, advocates, and service providers across the United States.
  • Steven Gold's Treasured Nuggets of Information
    Steven Gold's Treasured Nuggets of Information is a Web site by the foremost disability rights attorney. Topics include Housing, Medical Assistance, Nursing Homes, Education and American's with Disabilities Act.
  • The Technical Assistance Collaborative
    The Technical Assistance Collaborative has a multidisciplinary professional staff that has worked extensively in the fields of affordable and supported housing and human services. Their expertise spans the full range of federal and mainstream housing programs and policies that can expand affordable housing for people with disabilities and people who are homeless.
  • Toward a Home of One's Own: A Workshop for Families on the Journey
    This 1995 training manual was developed by people with disabilities, parents, and members of the National Home of Your Own Alliance. It was designed to assist individuals with disabilities who have been viewed as vulnerable, and their family members, with the process of planning to move out into the world and to develop an interdependent support network.
  • National Centers for Independent Living (NCIL)
    National Centers for Independent Living (NCIL) is the oldest cross disability, grassroots organization run by and for people with disabilities. Founded in 1982, NCIL represents over 700 organizations and individuals including: Centers for Independent Living (CILs), Statewide Independent Living Councils (SILCs), individuals with disabilities, and other organizations that advocate for the human and civil rights of people with disabilities throughout the United States.
  • Qualitymall.org
    An endless source of information that focuses on person-centered supports for people with developmental disabilities. Each of the Mall stores has departments users can look through to learn about positive practices that help people with developmental disabilities live, work, and participate in their communities as well as improving the quality of their supports.
    Home Ownership Section

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Home Financing

  • Fannie Mae
    Fannie Mae provides financial products and services that make it possible for low, moderate, and middle-income families to buy homes of their own.
  • Freddie Mac
    Freddie Mac's award-winning online tutorial, Your Route to Homeownership provides easy to understand and in-depth information on all aspects of buying a home, from understanding the pros and cons of homeownership to demystifying the mortgage process. Calculators and worksheets are provided to help along the way.
  • HUD's counseling list of statewide agencies
    HUD's counseling list of statewide agencies throughout the country can give you advice on buying a home, renting, defaults, foreclosures, credit issues, and reverse mortgages. Contact the agency nearest to you or call (800) 569-4287 or the local HUD office (651) 296-3353.
  • Ginnie Mae: Your path to Home Ownership: Home Ownership Calculators, Buy vs. Rent, Affordability, Loan Estimator
    There are many advantages to buying a home versus renting one. View these advantages in the Buy vs. Rent Comparison Chart, or view a financial comparison of buying versus renting in the Buy vs. Rent Calculator.
  • Housing Link
    (Housing and Rent Subsidies: Public Housing, Housing Vouchers)
  • HUD Public Housing

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Accessibility

  • Fair Housing Accessibility FIRST
    Fair Housing Accessibility FIRST is an initiative sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development designed to promote compliance with the Fair Housing Act design and construction requirements. The program offers comprehensive and detailed instruction programs, useful online web resources, and a toll-free information line for technical guidance and support. Toll-free Design and Construction Resource Center at (888) 341-7781 (V/TTY)
  • United States Access Board
    A federal agency committed to accessible design whose mission is to develop and maintaining accessibility guidelines and standards under several different laws, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This includes design requirements for facilities in the private and public sectors, transportation vehicles, telecommunications equipment, and Federal electronic and information technology.

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National Housing Organizations and Agencies

  • Center for Housing and New Community Economics
    The Center for Housing and New Community Economics (CHANCE) provides information on ways to improve and increase access to integrated, affordable, and accessible housing. It provides information on national projects designed to assist people with disabilities to move from nursing homes into the community, and research on the personal services, financial resources, and support networks associated with achieving and maintaining successful home ownership.
  • The Cohousing Association of the United States (Coho/US)
    The Cohousing Association of the United States (Coho/US) is an organization whose purpose is to promote and encourage the co-housing concept, support both individuals and groups in creating communities, provide assistance to completed groups for improving their systems for living together in community, and provide networking opportunities for those involved or interested in co-housing. They serve: seekers of co-housing communities, groups in the development stages, completed communities, co-housing professionals.
  • Corporation for Supportive Housing
    CSH helps communities create permanent housing with services to prevent and end homelessness.
  • National Alliance to End Homelessness
    The web site of the National Alliance to End Homelessness includes background, policy and practical information on ending homeless through the creation of permanent supportive housing and access to a range of interventions and support services.
  • National Low Income Housing Coalition
    The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) web site provides information on current housing policy issues for those with the most serious housing problems, the lowest income households.
  • National Shared Housing Resource Center
  • The U.S. Department of Housing Development
    The U.S. Department of Housing Development (HUD)'s mission is to provide a decent, safe, and sanitary home and suitable living environment for every American. HUD's services: providing housing assistance for low-income persons; working to create, rehabilitate and maintain the nation's affordable housing; enforcing the nation's fair housing laws; helping the homeless; spurring economic growth in distressed neighborhoods and helping local communities meet their development needs. Specific information for people with disabilities is also available.

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