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Housing Access Coordination

Housing access coordination (HAC)

Housing access coordination (HAC): A waiver service that helps a person plan for, find and move to his/her own home. It is a pay-for-performance, person-centered service that pays for staff assistance based on the results achieved. A provider is reimbursed for actual time spent helping a person get housing.

Since fall 2009, more than 1,700 people have used HAC to move from licensed or unlicensed settings to homes of their own that are not owned, leased, or controlled by disability services providers.

Eligibility:

A person is eligible to receive housing access coordination if he or she is enrolled on one of following waivers:

    • Brain Injury (BI)
    • Community Alternative Care (CAC)
    • Community Access for Disability Inclusion (CADI)
    • Developmental Disabilities (DD)

A person can use housing access coordination to move to his or her own home from any of the following settings:

    • amily or corporate adult foster care homes
      Hospitals
    • Institutions for Mental Diseases (IMD)
    • Intensive rehabilitation treatment and rule 36 settings
    • Intermediate care facilities for persons with developmental disabilities (ICF/DD)
    • Nursing facilities)
    • Registered housing with services establishments (e.g., customized living)
    • Unlicensed settings (e.g., a person’s own home or family home)..

Own Home

A person’s own home is a setting that he or she owns, rents or leases that is not operated, owned or leased by a provider of services or supports. The person has full control of his/her housing and choice of service provider.

Covered services

Housing access coordination is delivered in four stages:

  • Plan
  • Find
  • Move
  • Follow-up.

Each of the stages includes various supports. The four stages must be delivered in order.

The first three stages—plan, find and move—include no more than 50 hours (200 units) each. The last stage—follow-up—includes no more than 50 hours (200 units) per year after a move is complete.

1. Plan – 50 hours (200 units)

The plan stage may include:

    • Meetings between the person, the lead agency and HAC staff
    • Find Developing a person-centered housing plan
    • Creating a budget Follow-up.
    • Applying for housing/utility voucher(s)
    • Searching for housing
    • Meetings with landlords
    • Completing rental applications.

2. Find – 50 hours (200 units)

The Find stage may include:

    • Continuing to search for housing
    • Helping the person understand and negotiate a lease
    • Signing a lease
    • Arranging deposits
    • Scheduling moving and packing services
    • Assessment by an occupational therapist for modifications or assistive technology if needed
    • Getting household goods.

3. Move – 50 hours (200 units)

The move stage includes arrangements to:

    • Pack
    • Move
    • Unpack.

4. Follow-up – 50 hours (200 units) per year

The follow-up stage is intended to help the person keep his or her home and may include:

    • Going with a person to housing-related meetings with his or her landlord
    • Helping him or her understand and follow notices from his or her landlord about community rules
    • Following up about housing benefits.