HOYO Needs You

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Texas Home of Your Own
Coalition
1016 La Posada
Suite 145
Austin, TX 78752
1-800-988-4696
info@ucptexas.org

HOYO Needs You!

United Cerebral Palsy of Texas created the Texas Home of Your Own Coalition in 1995 to address a critical shortage of accessible, affordable housing for Texans with disabilities. Today HOYO serves people with disabilities and their families through projects in several major metropolitan areas. We are working to serve more Texans with disabilities by building new partnerships with lenders, realtors, homebuilders, disability advocacy organizations and others throughout Texas. Our greatest satisfaction is helping people realize the full meaning of two simple words-I'm home!

How can you help? Glad you asked! You can:

· participate in a local HOYO project committee,

· donate cash to provide direct assistance to people with disabilities participating in HOYO programs,

· help identify local resources for accessible and affordable housing, and/or

· educate the business, housing and lending communities about people with disabilities and their housing needs.

Contact our office to learn how you can be part of this innovative and much needed housing solution for Texans with disabilities:

Texas Home of Your Own Coalition
1016 La Posada Suite 145
Austin, TX 78752
Phone (v/TDD): 512-472-9195
Toll Free (v/TDD): 800-988-4696
Fax: 512-472-8026
E-mail: info@ucptexas.org
Website: hoyo.ucptexas.org

Partners of the Texas Home of Your Own Coalition

The Texas Home of Your Own Coalition is a collaborative project with organizational members representing consumers, family members, disability advocacy groups, housing organizations, lenders, real estate professionals, home builders, and state government agencies.

The Coalition has two levels in its current structure: the Statewide Steering Committee and the Local Area HOYO Project committees. The Statewide Steering Committee's activities include:

A. Developing and promoting products, projects and services that increase homeownership opportunities for people with disabilities;

B. Supporting local area HOYO projects and developing coalitions to initiate comprehensive, best-practice homeownership projects;

C. Working to identify and change barriers/public policies that prevent homeownership opportunities for individuals with disabilities;

D. Developing policy and procedure for the Texas HOYO Coalition, and

E. Approving developing coalitions to become Local Area HOYO Projects.

Statewide Steering Committee

Lead Organization: United Cerebral Palsy Association of Texas

· ADAPT of Texas

· [Advocacy, Incorporated]

· [The Arc of Texas]

· [Safeplace]

· [Bank of America, NA]

· [Bank One, NA]

· Coalition of Texans with Disabilities

· [Enterprise Foundation]

· [Fannie Mae]

· Local Housing Initiatives

· CH Mortgage

· [Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation]

· [Texas Early Childhood Intervention Council]

· [Texas Governors Committee On People with Disabilities]

· [Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs]

· [Texas Department of Mental Health/Mental Retardation]

· Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities

· [University of Texas - Texas University Affiliated Programs]

Local HOYO Projects

Texas HOYO Coalition local area Project Committees currently exist in Austin/Central Texas, the Houston area, El Paso, Tarrant County, and Dallas. The local area Project Committee's activities include:

A. Identifying and recruiting resources for implementation of a best-practice homeownership project in their community;

B. Working with the State Steering Committee to promote homeownership products, projects and services for persons with disabilities;

C. Implementing a best-practice homeownership project in their community; and

D. Participating with the Temple University/Human Services Research Institute research study of potential homebuyers with disabilities.