There are three types of Housing Stabilization Services:

• Housing transition services: A housing transition services provider (a person or agency) helps a person plan for, find, and move into housing.
  • Examples: Helping the person think about preferred housing; with the housing search and application processes; developing a budget; and understanding a lease.
  • Important: You do not need a source of housing funding, income, or job in order to get housing transition services.
• Housing sustaining services: A housing sustaining services provider (a person or agency) helps a person keep their housing after they have moved in.
  • Examples: Education on tenant-landlord rights and responsibilities; coaching to develop relationships with property managers and neighbors; training on how to be a good tenant; lease compliance; and problem-solving to maintain housing stability.
• Housing consultation: A housing consultant helps a person who doesn’t have MA case management develop a person-centered plan that addresses their needs, wants, and goals for living in the community.
  • Examples: Developing a housing focused person-centered plan based on the person’s needs, wants, and goals for housing; helping a person make an informed choice in their housing transition or sustaining services provider; offering resources related to non-housing goals; and coordinating with other service providers already working with the person.

Note: Housing Stabilization Services do not pay for housing or goods.

To get Housing Stabilization Services, you must:

• Have Medical Assistance (MA) coverage
• Be 18 or older
• Have a disability
  • Your disability does not have to meet Social Security’s adult standards for disability. Disabilities can include physical disabilities, mental illness, substance use disorder, and other conditions.
  • The program manual has details about which types of disability may qualify.
• Be in one of the following situations:
  • Experiencing homelessness
  • At risk of homelessness (including being doubled up, needing services to keep your housing, or you experienced homelessness in the past and now are being discharged from a correctional, medical, mental health, or substance use disorder treatment center without a permanent place to live)
  • Moving out of (or moved out of in the last six months) an institution, nursing facility, or certain other group settings like Board and Lodge or Adult Foster Care, or
  • At risk of institutionalization.
• Be assessed to need help with at least one of these disability-related areas:
  • Communication
  • Mobility
  • Decision-making, or
  • Managing moods or behaviors
• Not be getting similar services from other programs, like Moving Home MN’s transition services, Assertive Community Treatment, or Relocation Service Coordination.

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