Tools and Toolkits

Design and implement your partnership’s strategies with help from these toolkits and tools.

• Affordable Housing How-To Guide: guide for using State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) to invest in affordable housing development
• Assistive Technology (AT) Toolkit: online tool that organizes AT considerations and resources 
• Comprehensive Step-by-Step Guide for People at Risk of Eviction: interactive online tool to help people needing emergency rental assistance or information on eviction moratoriums, legal and housing aid, economic impact payments, and more
• Creating Permanent Supportive Housing to Meet the Needs of Survivors of Domestic Violence: a best practice toolkit for low-income housing developers, architects, property managers, and housing service providers, includes recommendations for involving survivors in the development of trauma-informed PSH programs
• Cross-Sector Partnerships Roadmap – Part I: high-level step-by-step guide to creating cross-sector aging, disability, health and housing solutions for individuals and families that need both housing and supportive services 
• Dimensions of Quality Supportive Housing Guidebook: guidebook for housing sector on creating and operating high-quality, effective, and sustainable supportive housing units
• Eviction Prevention: A Toolkit for Tenants and Service Providers: provides essential information to support stable tenancies and avoid the trauma of housing eviction
• Get Started on Your Multifamily Affordable Housing Preservation Strategy: guidebook for property owners to develop a strategy and partnerships that preserve critically needed multifamily affordable housing assets
• Help for Homeowners and Renters During the Coronavirus National Crisis: online tool to access information on mortgage and rental relief and legal rights 
• Home Modification Information Network: online directory of each state’s home modification policies, funding sources, and programs
• Home Modification Toolkit: toolkit designed to provide professionals with tools to enhance home modification availability and awareness for older adults and persons with disabilities to promote aging in place
• Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Landlord Resources: webpage with tools, information, and other technical assistance resources to support landlord participation in HCVs
• Increasing the Supply of Affordable Housing: A Primer: guidebook with strategies and funding to increase a community’s supply of new affordable housing
• Just-in-Time Guides for Older Adults on Using Home Equity: new consumer education guides for older adults on navigating important decisions that can affect financial and housing security. 
• LGBTQIA+ Fair Housing Toolkit: interactive toolkit designed to educate housing providers, tenants, applicants, and other housing consumers on LGBTQIA+ fair housing and civil rights protections and to advance housing equity for LGBTQIA+ individuals
• Medicaid Innovator Accelerator Program State Medicaid-Housing Agency Partnership Toolkit: toolkit for states on systems-level changes that further community integration especially for health care and housing
• Pathways to Partnerships for Housing Stability: tips for aging, disability, and health professionals on potential partners that support housing stability along with links to find state/local organizations and ideas for an initial communications 
• Person-Centered Practices Self-Assessment: tool for human service agencies to measure their program in developing a more person-centered systems for long-term services and supports, including home and community-based services
• Planning for Sustainability: brief that helps professionals plan for future sustainability of a grant-funded project
• Public Health and Homelessness Toolkit for State and Local Health Departments: toolkit to assist health departments and other public health organizations in supporting public health for people experiencing homelessness
• Rental Assistance Finder: online tool with information and links to help tenants and landlords take advantage of emergency rental assistance 
• Service Coordination Partnerships Toolkit [initial offerings]: new HSRC toolkit for community and state leaders on forming cross-sector partnerships to expand access to service coordination
• Thinking about Starting a Supportive Housing Program?  toolkit with recommendations and considerations for housing service providers that may develop supportive housing programs specifically for people who use drugs
• Tribal Housing: Housing and Services Resource Center’s webpage with tools and resources for tribal housing