• Low-Income Housing for People with Disabilities

• • Children with Special Needs
  • Clay County
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development
  • Disability
  • Elder Law
  • Estate Planning
  • Housing
  • Jacksonville
  • Orange Park
  • people with disabilities
  • People with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities
  • People with Special Needs
  • Protection for Disability
  • Providing for a Child with Special Needs
  • Section 8 Housing
  • Social Security
  • St. Augustine
  • St. Johns County
  • Supplemental Security Income
• 7 years ago
• People with disabilities are disproportionately low-income. Like many other marginalized communities, people with disabilities are being priced out of many neighborhoods, especially in large metropolitan centers, as rental prices continue to skyrocket and affordable housing stocks dwindle. Accord... [read more]

• HUD Makes Reverse Mortgages a Little Less Attractive

• • Clay County
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development
  • Duval County
  • Elder Law
  • Elderly
  • Estate Planning
  • Federal Reverse Mortgage Program
  • Homeownders
  • HUD
  • Jacksonville
  • Mortgage Insurance Premium
  • North Florida
  • Orange Park
  • Planning
  • Reverse Mortgage
  • Seniors
  • St. Augustine
  • St. Johns County
• 7 years ago
• The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has announced changes to the federal reverse mortgage program. Citing the need to put the program on better financial footing, HUD will raise reverse mortgage fees for some borrowers and lower the amount homeowners can borrow. A reverse mo... [read more]

• How Special Needs Trusts Affect Eligibility for Housing Assistance

• • Care Planning
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development
  • Disability
  • Elder Law
  • Estate Planning
  • Jacksonville
  • Medicaid
  • North Florida
  • Orange Park
  • people with disabilities
  • People with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities
  • Planning
  • Protection for Disability
  • Providing for a Child with Special Needs
  • Social Security
  • Social Security Income
  • Special Needs Planning
  • Special Needs Trust
  • Supplemental Security Income
• 7 years ago
• Those with special needs often cannot get by without housing assistance from federal programs like the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program. For example, while many people with special needs are on Supplemental Security Income (SSI), the average rent for a modest one-bedroom rental unit is equal... [read more]