Better Living Together’s advocacy is grounded in data and the lived experiences of Georgia families. Much of our efforts are devoted to advocating for policy change: collaborating with state agencies to improve housing funding criteria, advancing recommendations to expand independent living supports through Medicaid waivers, and raising awareness around critical housing issues. 

An illustration of BLT’s successful advocacy efforts can be seen in the Georgia Qualified Allocation Plan (QAP), the document that sets the criteria for scoring proposals when developers compete for tax credits to fund affordable housing construction. The newly approved 2026–2027 QAP includes two meaningful changes.

First, supportive housing developers are now required to have a letter of support from a referral entity at the time of application, a change BLT lobbied for directly, which encourages developers to build relationships with disability-serving organizations earlier in the process.

Second, the new QAP clarifies that people with disabilities, including those with IDD, are eligible for integrated supportive housing. This type of housing gets additional points in the tax-credit competition process, thereby providing a strong incentive for developers to create developments that set aside units for people with disabilities. Changes to the QAP are rare and hard-won. These are real steps forward.