AHA! at Briarcliff Tenant Rick discusses what he appreciates about living in units that are fully accessible, and feel like home. https://youtu.be/ckIg6PveyTg … [Read more...]
More Affordable Homes for People with Disabilities Needed – KVUE
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New Housing for the Disabled to Break Ground in 2019
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Nonprofit helps family find home adapted for disabilities
For Linda and Kathy Sands and their mother, Christine, it’s the little things in their home that make the difference. The 48-year-old twins have cerebral palsy, a disorder that impairs control of movement due to damage to the developing brain, and spend most of their time in modified hospital beds in their South Austin home. Linda is talkative, with a good sense of humor, but Kathy’s disorder … [Read more...]
How Housing Policy Is Failing America’s Poor
Section 8 was intended to help people escape poverty, but instead it’s trapping them in it. When a woman in McKinney, Texas, told Tatiana Rhodes and her friends to “go back to your Section 8 homes” at a public pool earlier this month, she inadvertently spoke volumes about the failure of a program that was designed to help America’s poor. Created by Congress in 1974, the “Section 8” Housing … [Read more...]