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more activities than the funding that HOME receives. The consolidated plan is much broader than the affordable housing strategic plan because it includes non - housing things. The county affordable housing strategic plan focuses more on housing. We are applying to the state for additional money for rehabilitation and urgent repair. On Sunday, January 29th there will be a forum @ 3 pm on Religious Freedom sponsored by the Human Relations Commission at the Whitted Building Room 230 in Hillsborough. Ms. Spencer - Horsley asked the AHAB board to attend if they are able. Speaker Audrey Spencer - Horsley introduced Carol Conway from Parent Advocates for Adult Children with I /DD. Ms. Conway explained that I /DD stand for Intellectual Developmental Disabled. Ms. Conway son is disabled and an adult. She shared that it causes tremendous strain on the family. Her son is largely non- verbal, developmental issues internally and IQ under 50. Her son is in a group home in Chapel Hill with 24 hour care because of his manic behavior. His behaviors were so pronounced that the group home talked about him to move on to something else. Ms. Conway talked with other families talking about housing opportunities for their adult children. The group merged with another group and together they formed a group called Parent Advocates for Adult Children with Intellectual Developmental Disabilities. They have four goals; create meeting space, identify housing options, develop needs profile and advocate for those needs. They conducted a survey and based on the results the average age of adults with I /DD is in there mid 20's and living with their parents. Half of the parents want their adult child to move into a new housing setting in less than six years. The majority want their adult child to be placed in town renting a unit and preferably with a roommate for friendship purposes. Ms. Conway spoke about the housing gap. There are 185,000 in North Carolina with I /DD. Most of these individuals are living at home and are invisible to the Orange County housing system. They will never achieve economic independence and never graduate from the need of affordable housing. There are four trends that affect the housing gap. Two are demographic and two are regulatory. She stated that one of the demographic trends is the I /DD population is living longer creating the need for specialized retirement centers. The second trend is the I /DD population is going to grow. Ms. Conway indicated that Orange County attracts a lot of the autism population because of UNC expertise. She explained that on the regulatory side one trend that deeply affect our housing need is that HUD is redoubling there effort to deinstitutionalize and desegregate the special needs population. This pushed Medicaid to offer supportive living. This feature provides the daily support that innovations waivers provide. The intent is to put them in a community in a 3 bedroom unit. There will be one bedroom for person with I /DD, one bedroom for caregiver and the third bedroom for a second person with I /DD. She explained that NC Housing Finance Agency had access to section 8 -11 money that can no longer be used for the I /DD population. Ms. Conway summarized that they would like to see that some percentage of affordable housing units be part of the formula for people with I /DD. Have a benchmark with 5 -7% of affordable units filled by people with I /DD adults. Most I /DD adults want to live in close proximity of each other and setting aside a number of units in mixed use large developments would be a happy compromise. Finally, help educate them on how to access the affordable housing opportunities that the AHAB is involved with. Ms. Spencer - Horsley encouraged Ms. Conway to tap into the resources that are available.