DisabilityInfo.gov: National Resource Directory: Housing & Transportation: Adaptive Housing

Information on homes modified to make them accessible to people with a variety of injuries or disabilities.

Helps Veterans with disabilities acquired in the line of duty with issues they face during recovery and rehabilitation. In addition to participating at ABILITY House construction sites, Veterans may also be recipients of an ABILITY House.

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Accessible housing information and news for people with disabilities, housing officials, builders and designers.

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Provides accessible, affordable housing, supportive living opportunities and rehabilitation services for adults with physical disabilities and brain injuries. Search and apply for housing and services online.

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Advances the role of design in expanding opportunity and enhancing experience for people of all ages and abilities.

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Information to assist you in finding the best assistive technology to meet your needs.

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Provides direct financial support to Service Members and their families for everyday living expenses, housing improvements, transition and career counseling, funeral arrangements, counseling and family retreats and travel costs associated with visiting wounded or ill family members.

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Research, information and technical assistance center that evaluates, develops and promotes universal design in housing and public and commercial facilities.

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CAPS professionals have been taught the strategies and techniques for designing and building aesthetically pleasing, barrier-free living environments.

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Information to make all homes "visit-able" by people with mobility impairments.

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Grant program that pays for modifications to make living spaces more accessible is available to Virginia Service Members injured during service in a combat theatre of operations.

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Fact sheet from the Department of Health and Human Services that describes home modifications to adapt living spaces for people with physical limitations.

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Learn more about home modifications through online courses: Executive Certificate in Home Modification Program and Speciality Courses in Home Modification by IDEAS.

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Answers common questions received by the National Resource Center for Supportive Housing and Home Modifications.

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Provides specially adapted homes for severely injured Service Members.

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Provides renovated housing at little or no cost to disabled Veterans with special adaptive needs.

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Information about renting, buying and making your home accessible, as well as Fair Housing rights.

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The VA will now use a locality-based approach in raising ceilings on its no-downpayment home loans from the current $417,000 to as much as $729,000. VA's Specially Adapted Housing Program is also raising primary grants from $50,000 to $60,000 toward constructing a new home or modifying an existing home. One new feature is a provision in the law that will allow Veterans with certain service-connected disabilities resulting from severe burns to receive the adaptive housing grants.

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Provides financial assistance to injured Marines, sailors or other Service Members assigned to Marine forces and their families to help with housing payments, the purchase of adaptive vans or vehicles, education programs and more.

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An article from The American Occupational Therapy Association providing FAQs and tips for home modification to facilitate independence and mobility.

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Accessible apartment listings with over 46,000 units in 155 major metropolitan cities.

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State-by-state links that may include local area or state agencies on aging, housing finance, housing and community development and more.

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Works to increase the availability of home modifications so that the elderly and disabled persons have the choice to live in a supportive environment.

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Helps patients to mobilize their communities to fundraise for uninsured expenses related to Catastrophic Injury, including home and vehicle modifications and home health care.

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Coordinates the non-medical care of wounded, ill, and injured sailors, Coast Guardsmen, and their families. Includes assistance with pay/personnel issues, lodging and housing adaptation, child and youth programs, transportation needs, legal and guardianship issues, education and training benefits, TBI/PTSD support service, and much more.

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Provides assistance for Service Members and their families including funds for transportation, as well as modifying, re-modeling and building homes.

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Supports Service Members while at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and when they transition back to duty or back to civilian life through programs and services including modification of housing for Veterans with disabilities and assistance to the families of wounded Service Members.

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These seven principles may be applied to evaluate existing designs, guide the design process and educate both designers and consumers about the characteristics of more usable products and environments.

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Fills the gaps in housing modification and repair services for retired and active Service Members and strives to provide safe and accessible housing for all low-income Veterans. Partners with Project H.E.R.O. (Homes Eliminated of Restrictions and Obstacles), an innovative program to make homes accessible to disabled Veterans across the United States.

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Focuses on technology and disability through research, development, education, advocacy and provision of technology and by supporting individuals who are engaged in these activities.

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Scholarships for certain severely wounded Veterans, which include up to four years of rent-free adaptive housing.

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Contact information for specialists in adapted housing at the VA Home Loan Guaranty Services program.

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Provides Veterans or Service Members who have specific service-connected disabilities who may be entitled to a grant from VA for the purpose of constructing an adapted home or modifying an existing home to meet their adaptive needs.

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Explains the three main VA grant programs that assist disabled Veterans with necessary home modifications: Specially Adapted Housing Grant, Special Home Adaptation Grant and the Home Improvements and Structural Alterations Grant (HISA).

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Overview of the VA Prosthetic and Sensory Aids Service, including information on automobile adaptive equipment, home improvement and structural alterations and services including hearing aids, eye glasses, prosthetic and orthotic devices.

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Mortgage protection insurance available to severely disabled Veterans who have received grants for specially-adapted housing.

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Fact sheet from the National Resource Center on Supportive Housing and Home Modification to help tenants with disabilities understand their housing rights.

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