Request information today about Trinity Towers for complete housing details and current vacancies! Trinity Towers is a participant of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) which operates a number of programs which provide both housing and supportive services for the elderly households. HUD defines elderly households as those in which one or more persons are 62 years of age or older. Five HUD programs provide affordable rental housing for low-income elderly households. Of these five program, only one, the Section 202 housing for the elderly program, provides housing exclusively for elderly persons. The other four programs provide housing for all age groups, but allow some properties to be devoted primarily to housing elderly residents. In addition to housing, HUD funds four supportive services programs for elderly residents in its subsidized properties. These programs are the Congregate Housing program, the Service Coordinator program, the Resident Opportunity and Self-Sufficiency (ROSS) program for elderly persons and persons with disabilities, and the Assisted Living Conversion program. Each program works to allow elderly persons living in HUD eligible properties to remain in their apartments through assistance and services. Supportive Services and Assisted Living Programs
Four programs are available to provide services for elderly residents who live in HUD-subsidized buildings consist of Congregate Housing program, Service Coordinator program, the Resident Opportunity and Self Sufficiency (ROSS) program, and the Assisted Living Conversion program. Three of the four programs — Congregate Housing, Service Coordinator, and Assisted Living Conversion — base their services on whether residents are considered to be either frail elderly or at-risk elderly. To determine whether an individual is a frail elderly or at-risk elderly depends on the ability to engage in activities of daily living (ADLs). ADLs consist of five or six categories of activities considered necessary for an individual to maintain independent functioning and their own personal care; the number of categories of activities varies slightly by program. The five common categories of activities included in all three programs are eating, which includes cooking and serving food; dressing; bathing, which includes getting in and out of a tub or shower; personal grooming; and home management, which includes housework, shopping, and laundry. The Congregate Housing program contains one additional ADL focused on an individual’s ability to move, and includes getting in and out of chairs, walking, going outdoors, and using the toilet. Eligibility to Seniors
Residents who are age 62 or older and unable to perform at least three ADLs to some degree are considered frail, while those who are unable to perform one or two ADLs are considered at risk.77 Note, however, that each of the three programs specifies that residents must be able to participate in ADLs at some minimal level. For example, residents must be able to feed, dress and wash themselves, take care of their personal appearance, and must be mobile (including use of a wheelchair). In the Congregate Housing and Assisted Living Conversion programs, residents qualify for assistance on an individual basis, while in the Service Coordinator program, entire buildings are eligible for services if a high enough percentage of residents is frail or at risk. In the ROSS program, services are available whether residents are frail or not. Congregate Housing
The Congregate Housing Services program, enacted as part of the Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1978 (P.L. 95-557), was the first program to make funds available so that HUD housing facilities could provide services for elderly residents. The purpose of the program was to prevent senior residents of Section 202 and public housing developments from moving to nursing homes by providing meals and other supports like housekeeping, case management, personal care, and transportation. In 1990, the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (P.L. 101-625) expanded eligible developments to include those assisted under Section 8 project-based rental assistance contracts, and those assisted through the Section 221(d)(3) and Section 236 programs. Other Known Terms: Senior Rental Units, U.S. Housing, Active Adult Retirement Communities, Senior Housing, Assisted Living Facilities, Congregate Housing, ALFs, Independent Living, Senior Retirement Homes and Affordable Senior Apartments, Elder Care Apartments and Senior Rental Apartments.
