Community Living for People with Disabilities in Public Housing: Evaluating the Frank Melville Supportive Housing Investment Act of 2010

The Frank Melville Supportive Housing Investment Act of 2010 created a federal program to advance community living for people with disabilities. [1] This program's enactment followed the Supreme Court's 1999 ruling in Olmstead v. L.C. which categorized unnecessary institutionalization and...

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Published in:Journal of public and international affairs (Princeton, N.J.) N.J.), 2023-01, p.1
Main Authors: Rogers, Sawyer, Impink, Rosalyn, Ziegler, Alison
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Affordable housing
Community
COVID-19
Development policy
Housing authorities
Institutionalization
Investments
People with disabilities
Policy making
Public housing
Supreme courts
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Summary:The Frank Melville Supportive Housing Investment Act of 2010 created a federal program to advance community living for people with disabilities. [1] This program's enactment followed the Supreme Court's 1999 ruling in Olmstead v. L.C. which categorized unnecessary institutionalization and segregated living of people with disabilities as discriminatory. In the intervening years, amid the continued fallout of the Great Recession, the COVID-19 pandemic, and an ever-challenged affordable housing stock, it is prudent to evaluate the Melville Act's effectiveness in achieving its goals from a national and programmatic perspective. We find that while the Melville Act successfully promoted mixed community living on a programmatic scale, it lacked a national-level impact due to under-resourcing, was not as cost-effective as predicted, and recipients were less satisfied with their housing than other programs. We recommend that actors in the policy design process advocate for the allocation of more resources to public housing programs with community living for people with disabilities and incorporate the principles of the "Nothing About Us Without Us" movement into the policy development and implementation process. [2]
ISSN:1070-521X