9/27/23 For Immediate Release: ADAPT Demands Congress to “Protect Traditional American Values”                         

What:   National ADAPT calls on Kate Granger, chair of the Appropriations Committee, and Congress to immediately provide the necessary funding for  affordable, accessible, integrated housing

When: Wednesday, September 27, 2023, 12PM

Where: Rayburn House Office Building,
45 Independence Avenue SW,
Washington, DC 20515

Contact:
Pam Auer, pauer41@gmail.com , Phone# 717.418.0419
Gina Barbara, ginambarbara@gmail.com , Phone# 516.318.9460


ADAPT Demands Congress to “Protect Traditional American Values”                         
                        
ADAPT has been engaged in the struggle to end the institutional bias for over 40 years.  People with disabilities and Older Americans continue to wait for home and community-based services, continue to wait for an adequate Community Attendant Workforce that is paid a living wage, and continue to wait for accessible affordable integrated housing, so they don’t have to be institutionalized.  While Congress chooses to squabble over the budget or decides to fund our services at the same level as 2023, more people with disabilities and Older Americans go without services, are becoming institutionalized, and dying.
 
ADAPT demands Congresswoman Kay Granger, Chair of the House Appropriations Committee and Congress commit and create the following: 
 

  1. A mandatory, fully funded, home and community services and supports program that is available in the US and Territories, that serves people without regard to age, diagnosis or type of disability that permanently eliminates waiting lists and that is available in urban and rural settings. 
  1. A “Housing Moonshot” that develops, rehabilitates, and weatherizes housing that is affordable, accessible, integrated and weather hardened, that eliminates housing waiting lists and creates a human right to housing in the US and Territories in urban and rural settings. 
  1. A home and community-based services and supports workforce that is paid a living wage with benefits and that has training available establishing adequate networks of workers available in the US and Territories in urban and rural settings. 

 
With this increase in funding, existing programs will be enhanced and more people with disabilities will be able to receive services. It is time for Congress to keep its promise to ADAPT and all Americans – that they will truly invest in the long-term services and supports infrastructure!
 
National ADAPT Community