Mission

Mission & Principles: 

The CCD Housing Task Force works to ensure that all people with disabilities have safe, stable, accessible, affordable, integrated housing that enables people to live in communities of their choosing, with full access to home and community-based services and supports. Through federal policy advocacy, we work to counter the impacts of historic and continued racist, ableist, and audist (among other forms of oppressive) policies and practices that cause the extreme lack of housing affordability, accessibility, availability, inclusion, and quality. We also acknowledge that the burden of these impacts is often most acute for those who experience multiple forms of marginalization; therefore, the solutions must center those most impacted. The CCD Housing Task Force works with non-governmental entities, Congress, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and other agencies to address these inequities and advance the rights of and access for all disabled people to stable, safe, accessible and affordable housing in communities of their choosing. 

The CCD Housing Task Force supports Housing First principles and that community and in-home support services should always be person-centered and voluntary.  Due to decades of grassroots advocacy as well as legal and policy mandates, it is critical that housing solutions for people with disabilities support full integration, where people with and without disabilities can live together in the communities of their choice, and where disabled people have the same access to all amenities as non-disabled people. That said, we also acknowledge that the preservation and cultivation of Disability and Deaf culture are paramount to how we understand the housing crisis and approach the variety of solutions needed. For example, housing solutions need to account for the importance of peer socialization amongst Deaf people who use sign language because, without it, there is continued proof of language deprivation. 

The CCD Housing Task Force also works collaboratively with the Technical Assistance Collaborative (TAC) to produce Priced Out, a study of the severe housing affordability problems of people with disabilities.

Co-chairs

• Allie Cannington
  The Kelsey

• Jennifer Kye
  Justice in Aging

• Greg Robinson
  Autistic Self Advocacy Network
  

ACTIVITIES

Housing Task Force CCD FY26 Appropriations Letter for Critical Housing Programs for Older Adults with People with Disabilities On behalf of the Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities (CCD) Housing Task Force and allied organizations, we write to urge you to protect and expand Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 funding for critical U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) programs, including but not limited to the Section 811 and Mainstream/Non-Elderly Disabled (NED) Voucher programs, the Fair Housing Initiatives Program, and Emergency Housing Vouchers. (September 12,  2025) - Download [ PDF ] Housing Task Force CCD Comments on LIHTC Data Collection Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the “60-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Statutorily-Mandated Collection of Information of Tenants in LIHTC Properties; OMB Control No.:2528-0230” (FR-7103-N-02). The undersigned are co-chairs of the Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities (CCD) Housing Task Force. (July 31,  2025) - Download [ PDF ] Housing Task Force CCD HTF Comments Rescission of Affirmative Fair Housing Marketing Regulations Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, “Rescission of Affirmative Fair Housing Marketing Regulations” (FR-6533-P-01). As co-chairs of the Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities (CCD) Housing Task Force, we urge HUD to withdraw this proposed rule. (June 27,  2025) - Download [ PDF ] Housing Task Force CCD Housing TF Letter DOE Rescission of New Construction Regulation We are writing on behalf of the Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities (CCD) Housing Task Force to submit significant adverse comments in opposition to the direct final rule (“DFR”) at Docket Number DOE-HQ-2025-0015, 90 Fed. Reg. 20783 (May 16, 2025). (June 16,  2025) - Download [ PDF ] Housing Task Force FY26 Skinny Budget Letter - Housing for People with Disabilities We are writing on behalf of the Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities (CCD) Housing Task Force to express our deep concerns over the Administration’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget proposals for HUD programs. (May 27,  2025) - Download [ PDF ] Housing Task Force CCD 2025 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Revisions, Interim Final Rule, FR-6519-I-01 Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Revisions” Interim Final Rule (2025 AFFH IFR). The undersigned are members of the Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities (CCD) Housing Task Force. (May 2,  2025) - Download [ PDF ] Housing Task Force CCD FY26 Appropriations Letter for Critical Housing Programs for Adults with Disabilities On behalf of the Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities (CCD) Housing Task Force, we write to urge your leadership to secure essential Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 funding for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Section 811 and Mainstream/Non-Elderly Disabled (NED) Voucher programs, as well as fair housing enforcement programs. (April 30,  2025) - Download [ PDF ] Housing Task Force Annual Report - Housing Task Force (January 13,  2025) - Download [ PDF ]