The following issue briefs emerged from the 2024 HSPA activities and offer information and models to facilitate state program development supporting people with disabilities and older adults who are homeless or at risk of experiencing homelessness.
- Averting Evictions: How an Area Agency on Aging in Massachusetts Offers Medicaid-Funded Housing Supports - Learn how an area agency on aging (AAA) in Massachusetts assists individuals facing housing insecurity to remain in their homes.
- Bridging Medicaid Short-Term Rental Assistance to Permanent Housing Resources - This brief will explore the operational strategies, housing resources and related partnerships states should consider as they prepare to implement the up to six months of short-term rental assistance benefit.
- Housing for Health: A Braided Funding Model in LA County, California - This case study explores how LA County is using an innovative braided funding model to provide services and supports that enhance housing stability and assist individuals experiencing homelessness in finding, securing, and maintaining stable housing.
- Introduction to the Independent Living Network - This technical brief provides a description of the Independent Living (IL) Network and how housing and service providers can partner with the IL Network in their state.
- Medicaid Delivery Systems for Housing Partners - This brief highlights key partners in the health space, including Community Care Hubs, Aging and Disability Networks, and Home and Community-Based Services, and the importance of cross-system partnerships.
- Partnering with CILS and IL Network for Housing and Services Support - The Independent Living Network, including centers for independent living (CILs), is a crucial partner in advancing housing and service partnerships to ensure people with disabilities can live independently in their communities.
- Planning Framework for Data Sharing and Integration Strategies - This brief provides a planning framework for developing a comprehensive strategy for the sharing of housing, health, and social care data across sectors.
- Pre-Tenancy Housing-Related Services and Supports: Lessons Learned from Innovative State Programs - This brief offers considerations for the successful implementation of Medicaid-funded pre-tenancy services under 1115 demonstration and 1915(i) state plan benefit.
- Scaling Medicaid-Funded Tenancy Sustaining Services in Affordable and Supportive Housing - This brief offers high level considerations for states seeking to effectively design, implement and scale Medicaid-funded tenancy sustaining services that assist individuals with disabilities and older adults who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness to maintain community-based housing.
- Supportive Housing Services Tailored to Older Adults in Eastern Washington - This case study explores how an area agency on aging (AAA) in Eastern Washington is providing housing-related services and supports through a Foundational Community Supports (FCS) program under the state's 1115 Medicaid Transformation waiver.
- Working with Managed Care Plans to Implement Housing-Related Supports and Services - This brief explores how states with active Medicaid housing-related supports and services programs are at the forefront of addressing challenges to housing stability by developing innovative cross-sector partnerships with housing and homeless assistance providers, state Medicaid offices, and Managed Care Plans.