Housing Now - Our Mission

Our Mission:

To locate and maintain affordable and accessible housing for persons with developmental disabilities in decent and safe neighborhoods.

Housing Now is a membership organization of property managers, business people, housing advocates, consumer groups, service providers and local developers dedicated to expanding affordable and accessible housing options for persons with developmental disabilities.

What we do:

Housing Now was created through a generous grant from the Department of Developmental Services in October 2002. Housing Now hopes to become vendorized through Alta California Regional Center to provide the following services:

Assist in finding community living options for people
Provide housing resources education to consumers, families, SLS and ILS community facilitators, ACRC Service Coordinators, member agencies and property managers
Create and maintain a database of affordable housing options and expand those options
Assist people with applying for wait lists for subsidized housing
Provide resources for home modifications
Work with people to complete an Individual Housing Intake Assessment and create a Housing Plan
Provide community outreach to people
Educate the community about the living needs of people supported by ACRC
Conduct educational opportunities for service coordinators, the people they support, their families and service providers

My own place
Melissa Crisp opening the door to her newly
purchased condominium!

Accessible shower
Leigh Penny and the bathroom she had retro-
fitted. The work was funded by a grant through
the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment
Agency.

Housing Now also provides these services:

Resource for property managers/owners to find people who need accessible apartments
Work with developers to create more subsidized living options
Participate in the development of housing elements
Keep database of people who need roommates
Assist with Fair Housing Issues
Independent Living Assistance Program (ILAP)* new program (see Current Events)
Send out newsflash periodically with housing information
Conduct presentations statewide related to housing

In the future, Housing Now anticipates providing resident coordination for the apartments that are set aside specifically for people supported by ACRC.