Congress Enacts Legislation to Reform HUD's Section 811 Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities - December 21, 2010

From the Technical Assistance Collaborative:

Section 811 Reforms

The Frank Melville Supportive Housing Investment Act makes long overdue improvements to the Section 811 program by:

* Modernizing and simplifying the capital advance program for non-profit sponsors;
* Integrating supportive housing for people with disabilities into larger multi-family affordable rental housing developments;
* Protecting an existing tenant-based program targeted to people with disabilities; and
* Creating an innovative subsidy approach that will allow states and localities leverage additional capital funds for the creation of new units of supportive housing.

This important legislation is named in honor of the late Frank Melville, the first Board Chair of the Melville Charitable Trust. Frank Melville and the entire Melville Charitable Trust family have been national leaders in promoting supportive housing as a highly successful and cost-effective best practice that can prevent and end unnecessary institutionalization and homelessness among people with the most significant and long-term disabilities.

Please click here to read the announcement from TAC.