Types of Housing

There are many different creative, community-based supportive housing solutions available for people with IDD. Learn about some of them below!

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  • Accessory Apartments: living units that are added ore created within a single-family home

  • Adult Family Home/Group Home

  • Community Cooperatives: people living and working together in a community setting such as a farm or ranch

  • Community Land Trusts: CPAH’s shared equity programs lower the cost of buying a home while also ensuring the community benefits from creating a stock of housing that will remain affordable forever

  • Community Integrated Apartment with Self-Directed Services

  • Elder Cottage Housing Opportunities (ECHO): small modular cottage units

  • Home Ownership: individuals with IDD trusts can own homes on their behalf; this could include single family, duplex, small multifamily, large multifamily, etc.

  • Intentional Communities (Cohousing): communities founded upon shared values

    • Camphill Village Model: family homes that include people with IDD and co-workers who commune and work together; work involves artistic endeavors

    • L’Arche Model: faith-based communities; homes that include people with and without disabilities who develop long-term mutually interdependent relationships

  • Pocket Neighborhoods: clustered groups of neighboring houses or apartments gathered around a shared open space

  • Shared Living (also known as Life Sharing or Home Sharing): a few unrelated people, with or without disabilities, share their resources to live in one home

  • Supervised Apartments: an individual lives alone or with a roommate in an apartment with staff available on the premises for up to 24 hours a day

  • Support Families: a family who is recruited, trained, and supervised by a provider agency, and paid to supply long-term care in their home for a person with a disability

  • Supportive Housing: permanent, affordable, lease-based housing for people of low income with access to flexible supportive services

  • Tiny Houses: compact housing that can be built on wheels for portability