CONTINUING EDUCATION IN HOUSING AND SUPPORT

Advanced Courses in Public Administration and Disability

Supported and Affordable Housing: 

Toward Inclusive, Equitable and Sustainable Communities

Posted: (c) 2013, January 12, 2018

Julie Ann Racino, Cornell University and Syracuse University

Community and Policy Studies 

COURSE SYLLABUS

Fall Semester 2018

Class 1: Introduction to the Course, including Assignments and Syllabus

• Introduction to Disability Policy and the Universalizing of Public Policy
• Housing for All and the Americans with Disabilities Act
• Inclusive, Sustainable and Equitable Communities

Class 2: Housing and Support Status in Disability in the US

• Deinstitutionalization, Transinstitutionalization and History of Congregate Facilities
• Community Support and Independent Living Movements in US
• Trends and Milestones in Community Services (e.g., Smaller Homes, Homeownership,      Families and Employment)
• Public and Low Income Housing vs. Mixed Income Housing Approaches
• Housing and Community and Economic Development
• Sustainable, Equitable and Inclusive US Developments

   

Class 3: Service System Delivery: Disability and Aging Systems in the US   

• Categorical Service Delivery by State Departments and Unified Housing  Departments    
• Unified Aging System Exclusive of Disability at Younger Ages
• Housing, Public Health and Social Services Departments
• Facility-Based Service Delivery Systems in Disability to Decategorizing, Debundling, Braiding and Service Packages
• Categorical Service Delivery by State Departments and Unified Housing Departments

Class 4: New Approaches to Community Supported Housing in the US

           

Compared to New and Older Health Facility Approaches

From intermediate care facilities to institutional reclassification, assisted living facilities, nursing facilities, and rehabilitation facilities; home health care and personal assistance services; visiting nurses and practitioner programs; speech, communication, physical and occupational therapy, medication management, behavioral health services; case management

Service Typologies, Continuum Critique, and Olmstead Most Integrated Standard

From group homes to apartments and home services, supported housing and supportive living,      independent living, cooperative apartments and associations, and villages and retirements communities; user-directed approaches and community service options; family support and education; after school activities; transitional housing; integrated apartment clusters

                 

Class 5: Housing and Support: The Ideal Proposed in the 1990s  

• Person-Centered Plans and Support Services (see, also, Great Britain)
• US Demonstrations on Money Follows the Person
• Family Cash Subsidies and Consumer-Controlled Budgets
• Choice, Empowerment and Self-Determination- The Basics: Selection of Own Home,  Providers or Assistants, Portable Services
• Disability Categorical, Community Support, and Housing State and Local Planning
• ADA and Accessible Housing, Assistive Technology and Accommodations       

Status in US Policy and in Europe: Developing Countries and Families

         

Class 6: Home Ownership and Rental in the US 

• Harvard Joint Center on Housing and Public Policy and the National Council on Disability: State of the Nation's Housing
• Housing, Affordability, Housing Cost Burdens and Worst Case Housing Scenarios
• Local Communities and Public Housing, Home Ownership Program
• Role of Nonprofits in Housing: e.g., The Case of HELP
• Federal, State and Local Roles, including Poverty and Community Building
• Special Populations and Housing (e.g., HIV-AIDS, psychiatric disabilities, criminal backgrounds)
• Home ownership, Income integration, income disparities, and neighborhoods          

International: Home and Land Ownership and the Status of Women

         

Class 7: Mid-Year Class Assignments

Class 8: Financing of Housing and Support in Disability

• Community and Development Block Grants
• Community Development Corporations
• Corporations for Supported Housing 
• Commission on Affordable Housing and Health Facilities 

• Housing Financing: Low income tax credit, National Housing Trust Fund, tax      exempt bond financing, mortgage tax credit, housing choice vouchers, Section 8 construction, rehabilitation section 515, delinquent property tax collections
• Support Services Financing/Social Services Financing
• Health Care Financing (e.g., Home and Community-Based Medicaid Waivers)

General Accountability Office, USA, 23 new reported programs

Class 9: Residential Segregation, Fair Housing and Discrimination

• Literature on Residential Segregation, Fair Housing and Discrimination in Housing 
• Fair Housing Laws and Discrimination: Landlords Tenants, Developers

Disability: Fair Housing

• Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Section 109 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974
• Architectural Barriers Act of 1968
• Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 503 and 504)
• Title IX of the Education Amendment Act of 1972      

Class 10: Inclusive Communities: Asset and Capacity-Based Approaches to Community Development

• John McKnight, Northwestern University, and Studies in Neighborhood, Residential  and Housing Integration
•  Inclusionary Zoning in the US (Department of Housing Preservation and Development)
•  History of Site Selection in New York State and US
•  Housing Integration in the US, Inclusion and Democracies, and New Gated Communities
•  Sustainability and Green Initiatives in Housing, Transportation and Equity
•  Worldwide Residential Segregation Studies of Cities: Waves of Immigration & Housing  
•  Capacity-Building and Social Networks in  Local Communities and Neighborhoods  (also, Negative Support)

Class 11: Housing Alliances and Coalitions: Legislation, Regulations, Financing, State and Localities

•  Governmental Focused Alliances: Partnership for Sustainable Communities, US, 2012
•  Government Officials - e.g.,National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials
•  New Groups: Housing and Support Alliance, Great Britain, 2012
•  Community Groups and Processes: Community Development Plans
•  Longstanding Coalitions: Low Income or Affordability Coalitions
•  Categorical Coalitions for Housing: National AIDS Coalition 

Class 12: Quality and Evaluation of Housing and Support in US

• Quality Indicators in Housing and Services, National-USA
• Annual Housing Reporting and Statistics: US Housing and Urban Development Department
• Household Surveys, Disability Surveys, and State, Federal and Local Evaluations
• Real Estate and Housing Construction Industries

Class 13: Housing Laws in the US and their Administration

          Partial List of Applicable Laws: Joint with School of Law

          1949 Housing Act, Housing Act of 1959

          1974 Housing and Community Development Act

          1986 Tax Reform Act

          1990 Cranston-Gonzalez Affordable Housing Act

          1990 National Affordable Housing Act

          1994 Continuum of Care and Homeless Funding

          1998 Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act

          2000 Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act

          2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

          2009 Obama: Helping Families Save their Homes Act

          2009 Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act

          2010 Frank Mellville Supported Housing Investment Act

        

Class 14: Class Papers

Report on Class Projects and Final Paper Submission. 

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