Homeless By Design: Why a Generation of Adults with Autism Face Homelessness

National Council on Severe Autism Webinar Series
Recorded on Friday, March 11, 2022
Featuring: Jan Stokley, Executive Director, Housing Choices, San Jose, California
This workshop reviews:
--demographic trends leading to a sharp increase in demand for supported housing for people with developmental disabilities, including autism, and federal and state policies that constrain supply
--how people with developmental disabilities fare when they lose parental support and the unique barriers they face to obtaining appropriate housin
--policy changes at the state and national level necessary to prevent homelessness among this population.

Jan Stokley is a graduate of the University of Virginia with highest honors where she was an Echols Scholar. Following a Fulbright Fellowship, she attended the University of Virginia School of Law where she graduated with the Order of the Coif. After practicing law with a firm in Los Angeles, Jan moved to the practice of affordable housing law with the National Economic Development & Law Center (now the Insight Center for Community Economic Development). Jan was a clinical law professor at the University of Maryland School of Law and led two other Bay Area nonprofit organizations before joining Housing Choices in 2012. She has written extensively in the fields of affordable housing, family support services, and early care and education. A parent of an adult daughter with developmental disabilities, Jan finds that her job at Housing Choices has woven together many different threads of her life in complex ways that never fail to surprise and reward.

Moderated by Jill Escher, President, National Council on Severe Autism

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