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A Home of Your Own. Buying Or Renting Your Own Home: Some Options. A Home of Your Own. Places to start: Your local housing authority Local or statewide disability homeownership groups HUD housing counseling Local independent living centers. A Home of Your Own. HomeChoice
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A Home of Your Own Buying Or Renting Your Own Home: Some Options
A Home of Your Own • Places to start: • Your local housing authority • Local or statewide disability homeownership groups • HUD housing counseling • Local independent living centers
A Home of Your Own • HomeChoice • Available through homeownership coalitions for people with disabilities • Mortgages require 3% down payment, have higher debt to income ratio (you do not need to earn a lot of money to buy a house)
A Home of Your Own • HomeChoice • Accept non-traditional credit histories (little to no credit prior to application) • Recognize non-traditional sources of income and support, including public disability benefits • The loan limit for a 15- or 30-year fixed rate mortgage is $275,000
A Home of Your Own • The Section 8 Housing Voucher • For low income people for renting or buying a home • The qualified yearly income for a person with a disability is 12 times the SSI check amount (2010 $674/mo x 12 mo = $8,088) • Employment is not required
A Home of Your Own • Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) • Savings accounts for people with disabilities where, when they deposit money into the IDA account, get from 3%-7% “matched” by another organization • IDAs do not count toward the SSI resource limits • May require “Pre purchase counseling” or financial education training
A Home of Your Own • Social Security/SSI considerations • A person receiving SSI and Medicaid can own a home and not have the value of the home count as part of their resource limits ($2,000 for a single person, $3,000 for a couple), if they live in the home.
A Home of Your Own • Information used for this presentation from the World Institute on Disability, Dede Leydorf, 510-251-4340 and • Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities Housing Taskforce, 202-783-2229 www.c-c-d.org/task_forces/housing/tf-housing.htm
A Home of Your Own • Renting your home • Person-centered resources • HUD Section 8 Housing Vouchers • Subsidized apartments
A Home of Your Own • In developing a person-centered residential plan for a person, many support resources will be identified, both paid and unpaid • During this process, a living situation may be identified such as an apartment attached to a private home whose owner is acquainted with the person, and supports his community integration goals
A Home of Your Own • HUD Section 8 housing vouchers • Allow you to find your own housing, single family homes, townhouses or apartments • Owner agrees to rent under the program • Rental units must meet minimum standards of health and safety • Person pays the difference between the typical rental value and the subsidy • Rent equals 30% of the person’s adjusted income
A Home of Your Own • Low income apartment complexes • HUD helps apartment owners offer reduced rents to low-income tenants • Find apartment complexes through the local public housing assistance provider
A Home of Your Own • For more information about renting a home: • National Council of State Housing Agencies (Specific state information) • http://www.ncsha.org/section.cfm/4/39/187 • HUD Housing Voucher Program • http://www.hud.gov/offices/pih/programs/hcv/index.cfm