Staying In Your Own Home
A major preference of older people is to continue living in their own homes for as long as possible. Sometimes, frailty or affordability issues compromise an older person's ability to age in place safely and successfully.
Service providers and advocates can assist older people and their caregiver families find access to programs and strategies that will enable older homeowners to remain living in their own homes. These options include the conversion of a home's equity into a source of additional monthly income, home repair programs, physical design modifications of an existing home to make it more useable by frail older people, and a variety of in-home and community-based supportive assistance programs. To view brief descriptions of these options, click on the following topics:
- Reverse Mortgage
- Property Tax Deferral
- Property Tax Abatement
- Sale/Leaseback
- STAR (New York School Tax Relief Program)
- Tax Form IT-214 (Circuit Breaker Program)
- Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP)
- Utility Energy Assistance
- Access to Home (modification) Program
- RESTORE Home Repair Program
- Weatherization Program
- Section 504 Home Repair Program
- Affordable Home Ownership (home rehabilitation) Program
- Subsidized Housing
- Section 8 Rental Assistance Program
- Rent Control and Rent Stabilization
- Senior Citizen Rent Increase Exemption (SCRIE)
- Housing Counseling
- In-Home and Community-Based Services
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