ABSTRACT
This chapter explores housing and personal care resources. Housekeeping assistance, laundry, and meals are generally provided to clients in independent living units. Contemporary society recognizes that nursing homes are not appropriate long-term living arrangements for most people with disabilities and programs and policies are generally moving away from nursing homes and toward community living as the arrangements of choice for people with disabilities. The National Home Mortgage Association "Community Home Choice" program assists people with disabilities to own their own homes. Because many people with disabilities have insufficient resources to purchase their own home, many rent units in multifamily dwellings. Both the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Health and Human Services offer resources and information, as do non-profit and private organizations. Typically, each person has his or her own room but shares a communal living room, dining room, and other public areas of the home.
