Housing Stabilization Services

Housing Stabilization Services is a Medical Assistance benefit to help people with disabilities and seniors find and keep housing. Housing stabilization services are state plan (not waiver) Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS).

To be Eligible

A member is eligible for housing stabilization services if they meet all of the following needs-based criteria:

Be on Medical Assistance (MA)
Be 18 years old or older
Have a documented disability or disabling condition, defined as one of the following:
A person who is aged, blind, or has a disability as described under Title II of the Social Security Act.
A person with an injury or illness is expected to cause extended or long-term incapacitation.
A person with a developmental disability (or related condition) or mental.
A person with a mental health condition, substance use disorder, or physical injury requires a residential level of care and is now transitioning to the community.
A person who is determined to have a learning disability according to the policy adopted by the Department of Human Services (DHS); or
A person with a substance use disorder is enrolled in a treatment program or is on a waiting list for a treatment program.
Be assessed to require assistance with at least one of the following areas resulting from the presence of a disability or a long-term or indefinite condition:
Communication
Mobility
Decision-making; or
Managing challenging behaviors
Be experiencing housing instability, evidenced by one of the following risk factors:
An individual or family is considered homeless when they lack a fixed, adequate nighttime residence; or

Currently transitioning, or has recently transitioned, from an institution or licensed or registered setting (registered housing with services facility, board and lodge, boarding care, adult foster care or community residential setting, hospital, Intermediate Care Facility for persons with Developmental Disabilities (ICF-DD), intensive residential treatment services, the Minnesota Security Hospital, nursing facility, regional treatment center); or
At the risk of homelessness. An individual or family is at risk of homelessness when

The individual or family is faced with a situation or set of circumstances likely to cause the household to become homeless, including but not limited to doubled-up living arrangements where the individual’s name is not on a lease, living in a condemned building without a place to move, having arrears in rent or utility payments, receiving an eviction notice without a place to move or living in temporary or transitional housing that carries time limits; or
The person, previously homeless, will be discharged from a correctional, medical, mental health, or substance use disorder treatment center and lacks sufficient resources to pay for housing, and does not have a permanent place to live; would be at risk of homelessness if housing services were removed.

At the risk of institutionalization – meets an institutional level of care/eligible for the following waivers:
Brain Injury (BI)
Community Access for Disability Inclusion (CADI)
Community Alternative Care (CAC)
Developmental Disability (DD)
Elderly Waiver (EW)

For more information on Housing Stabilization, please visit the Minnesota Department of Human Services Page.

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