how do I start a room and board facility for people on SSI?

Answer 1

Are you talking a location that people on SSI come and live independently or are you talking about a "group" home? Most people on SSI, I would imagine are going to have various degrees of disabilities and handicaps.

If you are interested in a Group home than I would suggest contacting your state's department of health and human services (maybe called something else in you state!) and they should be able to give you the licensing information. For the most part, you are going to be subject to numerous inspections and have employee to guest ratios to comply with.

If you are not going to be a licensed facility then you may run afoul of various discrimination laws since if you only accepted people on SSI than you are discriminating against others. Generally the opposite is true but in theory someone could seek damages because you turned them down for financial reasons.