Advocacy
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- Acronyms and Definitions
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National Housing Advocacy
- Housing advocacy articles from Steve Gold, an attorney located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Technical Assistance Collaborative (TAC): TAC's housing and homelessness staff works in the fields of affordable housing and permanent supportive housing for low-income households who have disabilities or who are homeless. TAC focuses its work in the ares of policy, planning and technical assistance.
- Making use of Fair Housing for help with Accessibility
- Housing Discrimination Complaints can be filed with HUD
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Community Change
- Community Organizing Resources on Communities of Power: Links to resources for making changes in your community and tips for advocates.
- Community Building Resources on Communties of Power: Community Building starts with building relationships and finding strengthes in your community and using these to grow together.
- Make a change for visit-ability: A page of resources from Concrete Change on making visit-ability in your community and state.
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Michigan Advocacy
- Disability Network/Michigan: Centers for Independent Living provide a variety of housing advocacy and network together through a housing workgroup to work on state-wide issues. Their page includes information and links to local Centers.
- Michigan Protection and Advocacy Services (MPAS): Provides information and referral and also has publications on advocacy including "Don’t Get Mad Get Powerful" and "Michigan Access Project Advocacy Manual" available for purchase.
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Self Advocacy and Self Determination:
- Center for Self-Determination: A wealth of resources on self determination including publications.
- Partners in Living: A self-study course created to help people with developmental disabilities, their family and friends explore four important elements that, together, can help them create a meaningful life: Self-Determination, Family Support, Community Living and Assistive Technology.
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Rentlinx
MDRC offers you Housing Search, which is a link to the extensive rental database of Rentlinx. Rentlinx is solely responsible for the content of this rental property site.
"This project is funded by the Michigan Developmental Disabilities Council"
