Services

Movin' Out, Inc. is a housing organization providing information and assistance, housing counseling, and gap financing for purchase and rehabilitation to Wisconsin households with a member who has a permanent disability.

Housing Counseling

Movin’ Out, Inc. partners with people seeking to improve their housing situation. Movin’ Out, Inc. housing counselors help people with disabilities and their families craft an individualized housing plan. For almost a thousand households this has meant either purchasing housing or coordinating necessary modifications to owner-occupied housing.

The scope of housing counseling could include any or all of the following:

• Exploring whether to own or rent
• Prioritizing location preferences and needs
• Looking at affordability and calculating budgets to account for expenses such as property taxes, insurance and home maintenance
• Evaluating eligibility for down payment assistance programs and rehab funding options
• Considering the impacts of housing resources and choices on public benefits, SSI, SSDI, Medicaid and Medicaid waiver programs
• Helping home buyers complete applications for home ownership financing
• Consulting with attorneys, lenders and realtors chosen by the applicant
• Negotiating with developers, landlords and contractors regarding special adaptations for health or physical accessibility needs
• Helping home buyers and their families to direct family resources or open trusts to offset housing costs
• Exploring alternatives to ownership such as use of a charitable, tax-exempt housing trust
• Evaluating impacts on taxes, estates and wills, and working with families who want their home deeded to their family member with a disability (This would involve outside professionals as Movin’ Out does not give legal or tax advice.)
• Linking with support service providers to coordinate housing and support needs.

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Who is eligible?

Income status

Movin’ Out, Inc. provides training, information and referral, and housing counseling regardless of income, as its resources allow. Movin’ Out, Inc. provides housing subsidies and loans only to individuals and families with low income, as defined in HUD regulations.

Disability Status

Movin' Out, Inc. assists people who have permanent developmental, physical, sensory, medical or mental health disabilities or a combination of impairments. Movin' Out reserves the right to prioritize funding for households that include a person whose disabilities are severe and lifelong, and resulting in substantial functional limitations in three or more areas of major life activity. Priority may be given to other individual based on individual circumstances. Qualifying disabilities are not the result of the aging process or the infirmities of aging.

Other eligibility factors

Movin' Out down payment assistance programs target first-time home-buyers.

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Programs

Movin’ Out provides information, assistance and referral on a statewide basis to people with disabilities, their families, and others assisting them in securing safe and affordable housing. Movin' Out works collaboratively with many local and statewide housing organizations.

Movin’ Out Rentals
Movin' Out offers affordable, accessible rental housing to people with disabilities who are affiliated with local long term support programs. At this time, Movin' Out is adding to its rental stock in Dane, Milwaukee, Shawano, and Washington Counties.

Movin' Out Charitable Housing Trust
Movin' Out operates a charitable, pooled housing trust that holds and manages homes for lifetime use by people with disabilities.

Movin’ Out AHP down payment assistance can be used to purchase homes anywhere in Wisconsin.
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Movin' Out AHP Purchase and Rehab program can be used to purchase and rehab homes anywhere in Wisconsin.
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Movin’ Out AHP Rehab program is offered in 18 counties in south central Wisconsin.
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Movin' Out down payment assistance from Dane County CDBG and HOME programs can be used to purchase homes in 52 Dane County towns, villages, and cities. Projects in the city of Madison are not eligible for Dane County funding.

Movin' Out down payment assistance from the City of Madison can be used to purchase homes within Madison’s city limits.