Advocates say people with disabilities are suffering the worst consequences of the U.S.’s affordable housing crisis.
, the ADA, the Architectural Barriers Act, and other federal laws, on top of to state and local statutes. It was the legal responsibility of the city and its Department of Housing to adhere to them.
The daunting, months- or years-long challenge of securing functional units regularly leads to severe hardships, including institutionalization and homelessness. “The situations that people have been in because of this are really dire,” Feidt commented. “We’ve had situations where people’s disabilities have worsened because they’re in housing that’s not accessible to them. People not being able to get out of their place.
To this day, though she described her current unit as an improvement, Lacey still does not feel she’s able to live with full independence. Her frustration at the decades-long impasse led her to join and organize with Access Living. “Everyone’s got different stories, but it’s the same damn story,” she remarked. “There’s no accessibility out here. Nothing. Thirty years? That’s a long damn time for someone to say, ‘We see you. We hear you. We’re concerned. We understand.
Furthermore, investigatory assessments of nearly 200 affordable, HUD-funded developments found noncompliance in a full 100 percent of units surveyed. Expert witnesses for the plaintiff documented an enormous list of limitations, including inadequate ramps, counter heights, door thresholds, narrow hallways, steep stairs, bathrooms without handrails and unavailable parking.
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