For Immediate Release
Who: National ADAPT
What: Demonstration to demand that Secretary Marcia Fudge from HUD invest in people with disabilities
When: Tuesday September 26, 2023 (Happening Now)
Where: 451 7th Street, S.W., Washington, DC 20410
For More information:
Latoya Maddox, lmaddox83@gmail.com Phone# 267.809.2454
Chris Murphy, cjohnmurph@gmail.com Phone# 507.340.3889
The disabled community has paid the price before and during COVID. We have been locked away in institutions because of lack of affordable and accessible housing and have died at an extremely high rate while waiting to transition to affordable accessible housing.
In any funding going to housing we want to double the requirement under Section 504 to have 10% of housing units built as mobility-disability accessible and 4% as sensory-disability accessible.
Create permanent funding for a Barrier Elimination for accessibility modifications for people transitioning out of facilities and those at risk of going into facilities (i.e., nursing facilities).
Make Housing Choice vouchers an entitlement for all who need housing.
Continue to issue Mainstream vouchers for disabled people to transition out of facilities or at risk of going into a facility (i.e., nursing facilities). HUD will track these vouchers.
Enact or include the Eleanor Smith Inclusive Home Design Act, this would allow for any new housing built to have one entrance to the house with no steps and a half a bathroom on the first floor, just large enough for someone in a wheelchair or other mobility device to use. This would allow for more integration and interaction of people with disabilities into their communities.