Jurisdiction Fact Sheets

	A	B	C	D	E	G	H	I
1	Alabama		Score by Metric			Category Scores
2	CATEGORIES		METRIC	ACTUAL SCORE	MAX SCORE	CATEGORIES	ACTUAL SCORE	MAX SCORE
3	Right to housing	.	Enforceable Right to Housing for All People	0	2	Right to housing	1	19
4			Enforceable Right to Housing for All Children	0	2	Shifting power in housing	0.5	5
5			Enforceable Right to Housing for All Transition Age Youth	0	2	Habitability of housing	2.5	10
6		Children and family services	No Children Enter Homelessness from State/Territorial Systems	0.5	1.5	Accessibility of housing	0.5	8.5
7		.	No Young Adults Enter Homelessness from State/Territorial Systems	0.5	1.5	Maintaining housing	-0.5	9.5
8		.	Ban on Minimum Income Requirements	0	1	HOUSING SCORE	4	52
9		Priority level	Plan to Fully Meet Need for Affordable Housing Units	❌	❌	Autonomy	0.5	5
10		Priority level	Appropriations for Affordable Housing for Youth and Young Adults	❌	❌	Healthcare	0.5	14.5
11			Ban on Source-of-Income Discrimination	"0"	1	Income	0	9.5
12		Anti-oppressive	Ban on Immigration Status Discrimination	0'	1	Education	-0.5	10
13		Anti-oppressive	Ban on Body Size Discrimination	0	1	LGBTQ+	-5	4.5
14		.	"First In Time" Rental Applications Rule	0	1	YOUTH SCORE	-4.5	43.5
15			Housing Protections for People with Criminal Records	0	1	Democratization	-0.5	1
16			Housing Protections for People with Eviction Records	0	1	Decriminalization	0	0
17			Housing Protections for People with Bad or No Credit	0	1	Progressive Taxation	0	1.5
18			Co-Signer Requirements for Public Rental Assistance	0	1	Immigration Enforcement	-0.5	0.5
19			Co-Signer Requirements for Unhoused Youth and Young Adults	0	1	ENVIRONMENT SCORE	-1	3
20	Shifting power	Maintaining housing	Incentives for Creating Limited Equity Cooperative Housing	0.5	1.5	Total Score	-1.5	98.5
21		Maintaining housing	Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act	0	1.5
22		Anti-oppressive	Laws to Facilitate Housing Reparations and Landback	0	2
23	Habitability of housing	.	Landlord Required to Maintain Habitability (Warrant of Habitability)	0	0
24			Court Filing Required for Uninhabitable Housing	-0.5	0
25			Uninhabitable Housing is Defense Against Rent Nonpayment	0	1
26			Rent Escrow for Uninhabitable Housing	0	0.5
27		Shifting power	Withholding Rent for Uninhabitable Housing	0	1.5
28		Shifting power	Additional Damages for Uninhabitable Housing	1	1
29			Exhausting Administrative Remedies Required for Uninhabitable Housing	0	0
30		Shifting power	Code Enforcement for Uninhabitable Housing	0	1
31		Shifting power	Governmental Repair and Deduct for Uninhabitable Housing	0	1.5
32			Lease Termination for Uninhabitable Housing	0.5	0.5
33		Shifting power	Tenant Repair and Deduct for Uninhabitable Housing	0	1
34			Retaliation Against Tenants Exercising Right to Habitability	1	1
35			Retaliation Against Tenants Exercising Rights Generally	0.5	1
36	Accessibility	Priority level	Tracks the Need for ADA-Compliant Housing Units	0.5	0.5
37			Plan to Fully Meet Need for ADA-Compliant Housing Units	0	1.5
38			Universal Design Requirements in New Housing Construction	0	1
39			Mandatory Visitability in All Publicly Funded New Housing	0	1.5
40			Mandatory Visitability in All New Housing	0	2
41			Financial Incentives for Visitability	0	1
42			Other Incentives for Visitability	0	1
43	Maintaining housing	Shifting power	Right to Counsel for Low-Income Tenants	0	1
44			Right to Counsel Prior to Eviction Filings	0	1.5
45			Right to Counsel for Habitability (and Other Affirmative) Proceedings	0	1.5
46			Just/Good Cause Evictions	0	1.5
47		.	Rent Control	0	1
48		.	Rent Control Preemptions	-0.5	0
49		Homelessness services	Appropriations (or Other Services) to Maintain Housing	0	0.5
50			Housing Providers Required to Provide Mental/Behavioral Health Supports	0	1
51			Housing Providers Required to Provide Paid Peer Mentors	0	1.5
52	Autonomy	Right to housing	Unhoused Minors Can Contract for Housing	0	1.5
53		.	SNAP for Prepared Meals	-0.5	0
54			Obtaining Government ID Without Parental Consent	0.5	1
55			Statutory Process for Emancipation	0.5	1
56			Waiver of Parental Notice for Emancipation	0	0
57		Homelessness services	Waiver of Parental Notice When Minors Consent to Shelter	0	1.5
58	Healthcare	Autonomy	Minors Have a Right to Privacy in Healthcare	-0.5	1.5
59			Minors Can Apply for Health Insurance Without Parental Consent	0	1
60			Minors Can Consent to Preventative Medical Care	1	1
61			Minors Can Consent to Dental Care	1	1
62			Minors Can Consent to Mental Health Care	1	1
63			Minors Can Consent to Reproductive Health Care	0.5	1
64			Minors Can Consent to Gender Affirming Care	-1	1
65			Minors Can Consent to Sexual Assault Care
66		Anti-oppressive	Explicit Protection for Minors' Access to Abortion Care	-1	1.5
67		Anti-oppressive	Explicit Protection for Minors' Access to Gender Affirming Care	-1	1.5
68		Autonomy	Safe Harbor Law for Providing Emergency Care to Minors	0	0.5
69		Anti-oppressive	Medicaid/CHIP Waiver for Lawfully Present Children	0	0.5
70			Immigration Status Discrimination in Health Insurance for Youth	0	1.5
71			Immigration Status Discrimination in Health Insurance for Young Adults	0	1.5
72	Income	.	Direct Cash Transfer (DCT) or Guaranteed Basic Income Programs	0	1.5
73			DCT Programs in Only Certain Localities	0.5	0.5
74			DCT Program Applies for Federal Waivers to Benefits Cliffs	0	1
75			DCT Program Adjusts Eligibility to Prevent Benefit Cliffs	0	1.5
76		Anti-oppressive	DCT Program Effects on Benefits of Participants with Disabilities	0	1
77		.	Minor Parents Exempt from the TANF Resident Requirement	-0.5	1
78			Minor Parents Exempt from TANF Activity Requirements	-0.5	0.5
79			No TANF Time Limit	0	1.5
80			State Supplementary Payments for SSI Recipients	0.5	1
81	Education	.	Partial and Alternative School Credits for Unhoused Students	0	1
82			State/Territorial Graduation Standards for Unhoused Students	0	0.5
83			Fifth Year of High School for Unhoused Students	0	1.5
84		Autonomy	High School Equivalency Exam Without Parental Consent	-0.5	1
85		.	Appropriations for Schools to Directly Prevent Homelessness	0	1.5
86			Additional Rights and Protections Beyond McKinney-Vento
87			McKinney-Vento-type Rights for Foster Youth
88		Decriminalization	Housing Status Accounted for in School Disciplinary Actions	0	0.5
89		.	Homelessness Liaisons at Post-Secondary Institutions	0	1
90			Housing Priority for Unhoused Students	0	0.5
91			Appropriations for Housing Unhoused Post-Secondary Students	0	1
92			Tuition and Fee Exemptions for Unhoused Students	0	1.5
93	LGBTQ+	Education	Bathroom and Facilities Discrimination	-1	0
94			Sports Discrimination	-1	0
95			LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Curricular Standards	-1	1
96			Outing Trans Youth to Parents	-1	0
97			Outing LGBTQ+ Youth to Parents
98		Autonomy	Updating Names Without Parental Consent	0	1
99			Updating Gender Markers Without Parental Consent	-0.5	1
100			Barriers to Updating Gender Markers	0	1