Learn about the Medicaid Transformation Waiver Renewal. There are programs available to help people with mental illness who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless find and keep housing.
This program helps people 18 and older who are at high risk of becoming homeless find safe, affordable housing. It also helps them learn skills to keep housing and live independently.
You must be eligible for services by the local mental health authority or local behavioral health authority. Twenty agencies in Texas help people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless with temporary rent subsidies, utility payments and move-in costs.
They also work on homelessness prevention and rapid re-housing to keep people housed or move them quickly into housing.
This includes deposits as well as rental and utility expenses. This program helps people with very low incomes who also have a disability and are linked with long-term services with rental assistance, although it does not require participation in services. This outreach program helps people with mental illness or substance use disorder and their families if they are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.
