Housing Stabilization
Housing Stabilization
There are three types of Housing Stabilization Services:
- Housing transition services: A housing transition services provider (a person or agency) helps a person plan for, find, and move into housing.
- Examples: Helping the person think about preferred housing; with the housing search and application processes; developing a budget; and understanding a lease.
- Important: You do not need a source of housing funding, income, or job in order to get housing transition services.
- Housing sustaining services: A housing sustaining services provider (a person or agency) helps a person keep their housing after they have moved in.
- Examples: Education on tenant-landlord rights and responsibilities; coaching to develop relationships with property managers and neighbors; training on how to be a good tenant; lease compliance; and problem-solving to maintain housing stability.
- Housing consultation: A housing consultant helps a person who doesn’t have MA case management develop a person-centered plan that addresses their needs, wants, and goals for living in the community.
- Examples: Developing a housing focused person-centered plan based on the person’s needs, wants, and goals for housing; helping a person make an informed choice in their housing transition or sustaining services provider; offering resources related to non-housing goals; and coordinating with other service providers already working with the person.
Note: Housing Stabilization Services do not pay for housing or goods.
Read this article to learn more about Housing Stabilization Services how it works.
To get Housing Stabilization Services, you must:
Have Medical Assistance (MA) coverage
- Be 18 or older
- Have a disability
- Your disability does not have to meet Social Security’s adult standards for disability. Disabilities can include physical disabilities, mental illness, substance use disorder, and other conditions.
- The program manual has details about which types of disability may qualify.
- Be in one of the following situations:
- Experiencing homelessness
- At risk of homelessness (including being doubled up, needing services to keep your housing, or you experienced homelessness in the past and now are being discharged from a correctional, medical, mental health, or substance use disorder treatment center without a permanent place to live)
- Moving out of (or moved out of in the last six months) an institution, nursing facility, or certain other group settings like Board and Lodge or Adult Foster Care, or
- At risk of institutionalization.
- Be assessed to need help with at least one of these disability-related areas:
- Communication
- Mobility
- Decision-making, or
- Managing moods or behaviors
- Not be getting similar services from other programs, like Moving Home MN’s transition services, Assertive Community Treatment, or Relocation Service Coordination.
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