I was wondering what other providers charge for room rent in community living homes to waiver clients?
Does the rent include all utilities and food?
We have had the same rent for like a decade now… What do people do to determine what they should be charging knowing these individuals mostly only get SSI?
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- We do a sliding scale based on their SSI income like HUD. I’ve attached our formulas.
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- We only have one “Supportive Living home” where a client lives in the staff home. For those we charge $13.90/day for Room and Board. That fee pays the rent, utilities, and food. Our fee has not increased in many many years.
- Room and board charge, room part set like HUD units, 30% of their income I believe. The boarding side of payment covers food and household goods.
- For years we kept it same too, but in more recent years, we were taking too big a loss on food and supplies. Now we just take actual food and supply spend for prior year and divide it evenly, add to room charge. It’s still pretty low and we don’t have any with issues of affordability.
- But we now do a lookback and adjust food/supplies at minimum every other year. Add in that, 30% of income up to fair market value.
- Our rent portion is controlled through HUD they determine the rent of the room. I then figure based on their income of Soc Sec or SSDI or SSDA HUD tell us to figure 30% of their income and then they pay the rest. We have a 15 unit group home with shared living and dining and utility and individual bedrooms and our rent is 895.00 per room which is crazy expensive but most of our people don’t pay half of that and HUD pays the rest
- Ours is HUD subsidized so it’s based on their income.
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- We have 2 group homes. 1 home has HUD assistance and the other does not. We use the HUD guidelines at both homes to set the rent amounts. Their rent also includes water, trash pickup, gas, and electricity.
- We also have an option that they can participate in for $300/month (we call it fees) where we provide them with groceries, hygiene products, and cleaning supplies for their bedrooms, bathrooms, and laundry.
- Cable/Internet is charged separately as well – its $20-$30/month depending on what home the clients reside in.
- We use the HUD formula for our group homes clients. It is 30% of their monthly income (SSA / SSI) the rent includes all utilities and their room. Groceries and personal items are a separate charge.
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