Thehousing choice voucher (HCV)programis the main housing subsidy program. This program alone helps more than 5 million individuals and more than 2.3 million households nationally. Its goal is to assist “very low-income families, the elderly, and the disabled to afford decent, safe, and sanita...
This research examines problems associated with the provision of housing with on-site services for two subsectors of the elderly population (defined as people who are at least sixty-two years old): functionally disabled elderly people and low-income elderly people. Given the growth of these two ...
When I was an apartment manager I had seniors living there who could no longer afford the rising rents. They had to leave the apartment they loved and look for senior low-income housing. They applied for help at their localHUDoffice or county aging departments. We hated to see them go bu...
Other categories (in descending size) are education, housing and development, social services, employment and training, and energy assistance. Most low-income spending (82% in FY2013) is classified in budgetary terms as “mandatory” (or “direct”), which means the amount spent is a function...
Disability is an especially pressing issue for low-income older adults because they have a higher prevalence of disability4,5 and often have housing conditions that exacerbate the effect of disability (such as broken flooring).6,7 Contemporary payment and delivery reform initiatives create opportunities...
of their low income or eligibility for another income-tested program. “Low income” is defined in a multitude of ways, using different percentages of the federal poverty guidelines, specific dollar amounts, percentages of local area median income (primarily for housing programs), or other ...
precipitation- and wind-driven outages occurred more frequently in socially vulnerable communities, including in Harlem, Upper Manhattan, the South Bronx and eastern Queens. This matters because socially vulnerable neighborhoods have higher poverty rates and lower-quality housing. Community members may lack...
In our paper, we have tried to introduce SPARSHA which is a low cost refreshable Braille device for deaf-blind and blind people to communicate with other deaf-blind people, blind people and with the nondisabled people. SPARSHA is an electronic device which is connected with a computer and ...
! Infants under age one year (and pregnant women) whose family income is no more than 185% FPL. ! The medically needy, persons who do not meet the financial standards for cash assistance programs but meet the categorical standards and have income and ...
“Do You Know of Any Cheap Or Free Storage Facilities For My Things While I Am In Shelter?” Coalition for the Homeless https://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/get-help/help-with-something-else/cheap-free-storage-facilities/ “Moving Assistance” Housing Opportunities & Maintenance for the Elder...