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Accessible Housing Database and Manual

Description

A tool CILs can use to track accessible rental housing in their community, and from which officials and advocates can draw data in order to assess affordability and availability of accessible housing. The tool provides an overview of the history of disability approved housing policies. Goal: develop broadly applicable techniques for evaluating the accessibility of a community’s rental housing stock while outlining strategies for developing a systematic plan to increase accessible housing options for disabled people.

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Additional Information

Creation Date:

2000

Type of Product:

• Infosheet

People Required:

• Organization
• Community

Adaptation Needed:

The group must decide on their own goals

Rural Adaptations:

Does not appear to be limited to urban areas

Reading Time:

Does not take a long time to read the document

Cost:

Might be needed in order to provide honorarium for collaborators, focus groups, etc.

Staff Needed:

• Need staff to put together project
• Staff need to have knowledge of how to coordinate local housing service providers, advocates, consumers, etc.
• Staff also need to understand laws and housing plans

Supplies:

• Need this guide
• House plans of the community
• Laws to understand requirements, etc.

Technology:

• Not crucial to carrying out project

Alone/Group:

Collaboration with housing coalition of developers and service organizations

Recruitment/Attrition Risk:

Availability of collaborators

Plain Language Rating (Flesch-Kincaid):

Grade 16

Practical As-Is for Implementation:

Good, despite need to creating a coalition and knowledge needed to carry out project