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ND Olmstead Plan Goal #4: Improve and expand housing options.
- Educate people with disabilities on their housing options.
- Identify key consumer referral sources and develop linkages (MFP Housing database and others).
- Educate people with disabilities on their housing rights and responsibilities.
- Increase assistance for securing safe, affordable, accessible housing.
- Align Human Service Zones with Coordinated Entry.
- Increase the number of landlords willing to rent to individuals with disabilities.
- Analyze Opening Doors Landlord Risk Mitigation program to expand eligibility to non-Medicaid eligible recipients.
- Provide incentive to private market builders to create more than the ADA/Fair Housing percentage of required accessible units in new construction.
- Provide rental assistance resources for people with disabilities.
- Recommend local Public Housing Authorities prioritize individuals with disabilities for rental assistance selection.
- Develop gap funding for application fees, 1st month’s rent, deposit, utilities, and other upfront housing costs.
- Analyze needs for housing across the state.
- Update statewide housing needs assessment with specific information on housing needs for people with disabilities (people with serious mental illness, transition age youth, elderly etc.)
- Aggregate information available on the housing needs of people with disabilities.
- Identify all available housing resources statewide, ensuring a current, complete inventory of housing opportunities across the state.
- Support the development of accessible and affordable housing located adjacent to public transportation and other amenities.
- Expand evidence-based, culturally responsive supportive housing.
- Establish quality standards for all supportive housing services in the state.
- Engage in evaluation and continuous quality improvement to aid sustainability of supportive housing services.
- Finance additional permanent supportive housing.
- Support an ongoing funding source for housing development and rehabilitation.
- Explore existing funding sources and potential new avenues of funding.
- Support biennial allocation for Housing Incentive Fund.
- Provide more funding for home repairs and modifications for people who own their homes.
Factsheets:
Protection and Advocacy: Housing Discrimination/Reasonable Accommodations
Protection and Advocacy: Landlord & Tenant Responsibilities
Resources:
Home and Community-Based Long Term Care