What type of financial assistance is available for elders in need of housing?
The Housing Choice Voucher Program is a major federal program for assisting low-income families, the elderly and people with disabilities to obtain decent and safe housing. Housing choice vouchers are administered locally by public housing agencies. The public housing agencies receive federal funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to administer the voucher program. Contact your local public housing agency for more information on this program and other programs they administer. The Supportive Housing for the Elderly Program provides very low-income elderly with options that allow them to live independently but in an environment that provides support activities such as cleaning, cooking, transportation, etc. The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development provides capital advances to finance the construction, rehabilitation or acquisition of these dwellings, and provides rent subsidies for the projects to help make them affordable. Contact your loca
