Housing Advocacy Coordination Project

A statewide coordinated effort to address issues in the area of public and subsidized housing that are important to people with disabilities.

The Housing Advocacy Coordinator provides the following services:

Technical Assistance

• To support to local self-advocacy groups about public and subsidized housing issues specific to their area
• To support self-advocacy groups on educating their local housing authorities and local housing counseling agencies
• To provide information on where and how to get funds for home modification
• Public and Subsidized Housing
• HUD Rules and Regulations
• Fair Housing
• Reasonable Accommodations
• How to testify at Consolidated Plan Hearings
• Rights and responsibilities in public and subsidized housing
• How to file HUD complaints

Advocacy

• The continuing use of rental certificates and voucher programs enabling people with disabilities to locate their own housing in the community
• Enforcement of special accommodations

Partnerships

• Fair Housing Councils
• Advocacy agencies
• Affordable Housing Coalition of Centre County
• Union/Snyder Chapter of Habitat for Humanity
• Governor's Office of Health Care Reform
• Governor's Office of Housing and Community Revitalization
• PA Department of Community & Economic Development
• PA Human Relations Commission's Disability Stakeholders Group

Publications

• SDHP Newsletter Homewards
• When it's Okay to Bend the Rules - Reasonable Accommodations

Training, Workshops, Presentations

• Programs and Waivers
• Housing Voucher Programs