JHA has taken active measures in providing set aside units for those with special needs. There are proposed forty certificates and vouchers for the homeless and nineteen for the AIDS victims. Although these programs exist, there is no guarantee that applicants with special needs will be placed into a unit at a faster rate. Special needs residents do not have to participate in these programs in order to be placed in either conventional public housing or Section 8. Units which these residents will occupy will be adjusted for their conditions upon placement.
Some units are available from previous tenants with special needs.
Several public housing units have been classified as accessible to wheelchair users. Some of the units in these complexes can be used to address applicants who may have physical disabilities. However, special need applicants do not have to wait for one of these units. Any unit that a special need resident is assigned to will be adjusted for their condition.