Special Needs Housing: Housing for Persons with Special Needs

Delaware State Housing Authority:
Providing Stable Housing to Prevent Gun Violence

In it's second year, DSHA's Group Violence Intervention (GVI) program has seen a 250% increase in participation. The program helps high-risk individuals living in Wilmington, Del. avoid involvement in the criminal justice system, keeps them safe, stabilizes their lives, and creates accountability for violence. GVI participants receive two years of rental assistance from DSHA and are provided supportive services and case management through a partnership with our state social services agency.

Idaho Housing and Finance Association:
Valor Pointe: Permanent Supportive Housing for Boise Veterans

Valor Pointe, a 27-unit housing project designed for veterans experiencing chronic homelessness, opened in August 2020. It is the second single-site permanent supportive housing project that Idaho Housing and its partner agencies have undertaken. Offering not just housing but also wrap-around services, this project is an integrated system of support to meet the needs and challenges of homeless veterans, decreasing societal costs while improving quality of life for a vulnerable population.

Minnesota Housing:
Tenant Selection Plan Guidelines

Minnesota Housing (Agency) requires all properties that have financing through the Agency to have a tenant selection plan (TSP). The agency formed a TSP policy work group comprised of multifamily staff, policy staff, legal staff, and Agency leadership. The work group gathered information and explored options for providing more direction and incentives to developers to adopt more inclusive screening criteria to serve households that experience barriers to housing.

Mississippi Home Corporation:
CHOICE: A Holistic Statewide Housing Intervention for Individuals with SMI Experiencing Housing Insecurities

HUD and the CDC both recognize that preventing the experience of homelessness is key to the fight against COVID-19. Institutionalization and homelessness can increase one’s risk of contracting COVID-19 due to the inability to isolate. Additionally, institutionalize care has a greater cost burden than community care and independent living. MHC partnered with state agencies and nonprofits to provide statewide community housing for individuals exiting institutional settings or homelessness.

New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency:
Special Needs Housing Subsidy Loan Program

The Special Needs Housing Subsidy Loan Program is a $50 million initiative by the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency to create supportive housing for a wide range of special needs populations and enable them to live independently in communities of their choice. It is the agency’s first major new funding source in seven years to provide supportive affordable housing opportunities. The program will provide 400 apartments for some of the most vulnerable members of our communities.

Ohio Housing Finance Agency:
Ohio 811 Program Tableau Dashboards

The Ohio Housing Finance Agency spearheads the Ohio 811 Project Rental Assistance Program in collaboration with several state agencies. The complex nature of the 811 Program gave OHFA a unique opportunity to create a system that could be more secure, easier to update, and better able to share information across agencies. Using Tableau, OHFA worked with the multi-agency team to design dashboards that collect, analyze and visualize the data, which is refreshed daily and weekly.