Housing Stabilization Services

Background

Minnesota supports people with disabilities to live, work, and play in communities of their choice. Various challenges and barriers can make it hard to find housing, budget, interact with landlords and neighbors, and understand the rules of a lease. Finding and keeping stable affordable housing is important to the health of Minnesotans. Housing Stabilization Services is a new Medical Assistance benefit designed to help people with disabilities and seniors find and keep housing. Housing Stabilization Services is a home and community-based service.

The purpose of these services is to:

• Support an individual's transition into housing,
• Increase long-term stability in housing in the community, and
• Avoid future periods of homelessness or institutionalization.

For people looking for more information about the services, please visit Housing Benefits 101 and search “Housing Stabilization Services.”

Individual Eligibility

Information on eligible recipients and enrolling eligible recipients can be found in the Minnesota Health Care Programs Housing Stabilization Services Provider Manual.

Supporting a person onto Housing Stabilization Services starts with the submission of a Housing Stabilization Services Eligibility Request Form (DHS-7948). Only enrolled Housing Stabilization Services providers may submit this form to DHS. All submitted forms are reviewed as soon as possible, in the order received. DHS will notify the provider submitting eligibility documentation of the person's eligibility determination through the MN-ITS mailbox.

Providers can look up to see if a person is on Housing Stabilization Services through the MN-ITs Eligibility Look-Up (270) search. To complete a search, providers will need to login into the MN-ITS Login page with their username and password. In order to look-up a person, staff will need to have at least two pieces of information, which may include first and last name, date of birth, Person Master Index (PMI), or Social Security Number. 

If a person is active on Housing Stabilization Services based on the search date, it will be shown under the "Other Eligibility Information," section just below the "County of Residence." The message will read, "This subscriber is approved for Housing Stabilization Services." 

To learn more about how a person goes through the process of getting Housing Stabilization Services, review the Person-Served Workflow (DHS-7347).