The Resource Library

Publications

  • Supporting Community Living: Olmstead and Money Follows the Person (MFP)

    Issue Brief | Publication | January 2013

    This brief - developed by TAC as part of the Housing Capacity Building Initiative for Community Living Project, under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Money Follows the Person (MFP) Rebalancing Demonstration - offers guidance to state policy makers on how MFP can be utilized to assist…

  • Federal Financing of Supported Employment & Customized Employment for People with Mental Illness: Final Report

    Report | Publication | October 2012

    The Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in conjunction with the Federal Employment Workgroup on Disability, commissioned a review of the federal financing mechanisms used by state agencies to implement the evidence-based employment models known as Individual Placement…

  • New Section 811 Supportive Housing Legislation Introduced in U.S. Congress

    Issue Brief | Publication | October 2012

    Opening Doors is a publication of TAC and the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) Housing Task Force that provides housing information for the disability community. This issue describes critically important legislation that will help address the enormous and unrelenting housing crisis faced by millions of extremely low-income people…

  • Live-in Aides and the Housing Choice Voucher Program

    Publication | October 2012

    One of the issues that Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) often face when assisting people with disabilities through the Housing Choice Voucher Program is that of live-in aides. This Fact Sheet provides information on live-in aides including U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) regulatory requirements and key definitions…

  • Save Section 811 with the New Community Integration Paradigm

    Issue Brief | Publication | October 2012

    This article, which was co-authored by TAC's Associate Director, Ann O'Hara, and was published in an issue of the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare Magazine, discusses how legislation intended to reform the HUD Section 811 Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities program will help create additional units of…

  • A Katrina Success Story: Louisiana’s 3,000 Unit Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) Initiative

    Issue Brief | Publication | October 2012

    This brief introduces Louisiana’s 3,000 unit Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) Program, and describes the important roles that state policy makers, homeless and disability advocates, and philanthropy played in creating the nation's first large scale cross-disability, integrated permanent supportive housing initiative. (2010)