Housing Stabilization Services
How We Can Help Find Home
Various challenges and barriers can make it hard to find housing, budget, interact with landlords and neighbors, and understand the rules of a lease. Finding and keeping stable affordable housing is important to the health of Minnesotans. Housing Stabilization Services is a new Medical Assistance benefit designed to help people with disabilities and seniors find and keep housing.
The purpose of these services is to:
- Support an individual’s transition into housing,
- Increase long-term stability in housing in the community, and
- Avoid future periods of homelessness or institutionalization.
Housing Transition
Services that assist a person to plan for, find, and move to a home in the community.
Covered Services:
- Developing a housing transition plan*
- Supporting the person in applying for benefits to afford their housing, including helping the person determine which benefits they may be eligible for*
- Assisting the person with the housing search and application process*
- Assisting the person with tenant screening and housing assessments*
- Providing transportation with the person receiving services present and discussing housing-related issues
- Helping the person understand and develop a budget
Not Covered Services:
- Room and Board (including moving expenses)
- Deposits
- Food
- Rent
- No-show appointments
- Staff travel time with a person not in the vehicle or the person is in the vehicle but Housing Stabilization Services is not discussed
- Direct or indirect services provision in a group setting
- Transition services from institutions if a person dies before discharge or transition services exceed 180 days
Housing Sustaining
Services that assist a person to plan for, find, and move to a home in the community.
Covered Services:
- Developing, updating and modifying the housing support and crisis/safety plan on a regular basis*
- Preventing and early identification of behaviors that may jeopardize continued housing
- Educating and training on the roles, rights, and responsibilities of the tenant and property manager
- Transportation with the person receiving services present and discussing housing-related issues
- Promoting/supporting cultural practice needs and understandings with landlords, property managers and neighbors*
- Coaching to develop and maintain key relationships with property managers and neighbors
Not Covered Services:
- Room and Board (including moving expenses)
- Deposits
- Food
- Furnishings
- Rent
- Utilities
- No-show appointments
- Staff travel time with a person not in the vehicle
- Direct or indirect services provision in a group setting
- Services provided outside of Minnesota
