Posts filed under: housing

Sept. 13, 2011
The New York Times
In Deal, Hundreds of Mentally Ill People Will Leave Confinement of Nursing Home
Hundreds of mentally ill people who have been confined to nursing homes, sometimes in prisonlike conditions, would move to apartments or other housing within three years under a legal settlement with New York State.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), healthcare, housing, Olmsted decision, psychiatric disability, public policy

Aug. 17, 2011
The New York Times
New York Moves to Crack Down on Abuse of Disabled
Moving to end the state’s lax oversight of the developmentally disabled, the Cuomo administration on Wednesday announced an agreement with the State Police to establish guidelines for reporting possible crimes against the disabled to law enforcement authorities.
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Filed Under: developmental disability, healthcare, housing, long-term care, public policy

May 30, 2011
Sun Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.)
Broward files its first emotional disability pet lawsuit
The senior citizen in Deerfield Beach’s Century Village is so incensed over her condo’s refusal to honor her doctor’s “prescription’’ that she live with her dog, Sweetie, for emotional support, and the retaliation she says she suffered over her request, she’s made a federal case out of it, literally. Broward County government has taken her cause to the courthouse, and the public is paying for it.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), hidden disability, housing, public policy

May 10, 2011
The Record (Bergen County, N.J.)
New Jersey to create housing for 600 people with disabilities
The Christie administration on Tuesday announced a plan to create 600 community residential beds for people with developmental disabilities by June 2013.
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Filed Under: developmental disability, healthcare, housing, long-term care

May 6, 2011
WNYW-TV (New York)
S.I. Condo Board Balks at Wheelchair Lift for Girl
A 4-year-old girl with cerebral palsy needs a wheelchair lift to get in and out of her home on Staten Island. Her parents have the money to put it in, but they met opposition from the condominium board for Richmond Mews in Bulls Head.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), housing, long-term care, physical accessibility, public policy

Aug. 29, 2010
The Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, Okla.)
Disabled Oklahoma City man thrives in own home, guardian says
James Bowman, of Oklahoma City, is one of the 5,100 Oklahomans living with roommates who also have disabilities and receive medical and physical services from a contract provider in their homes.
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Filed Under: developmental disability, healthcare, housing, long-term care

Aug. 14, 2010
The Washington Post
Fair Housing Act helps protect disabled occupants from discrimination
Say you have a disability and want your condominium association to allow you to park closer to your unit. Or your psychiatrist has advised you to get a dog as a companion, but your association's rules do not permit pets. Maybe you discover that your unit has bedbugs, but your health condition cannot tolerate the insecticide that your cooperative plans to use to fumigate the building.
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Filed Under: housing, public policy

June 7, 2010
WLBT-TV (Jackson, Miss.)
Home of Your Own Program helps people with disabilities
As part of National Homeowners Awareness Month, the University of Southern Mississippi's Institute for Disability Studies is helping people with disabilities get available resources in purchasing a home.
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June 6, 2010
Houston Chronicle
Kids choked, stripped, beaten at facilities
Workers at a center for distressed children provoked seven developmentally disabled girls into a fight of biting and bruising as staffers laughed, cheered and promised the winners a precious prize: after-school snacks.
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Filed Under: developmental disability, healthcare, housing, long-term care, public policy, restraints

June 6, 2010
The Boston Globe
Lynn man takes awareness on road
For most people, the prospects of undertaking a cross-country trip is daunting. Not for Matt Eddy of Lynn, who set out yesterday morning on his second coast-to-coast trek to raise money and awareness for the disease he lives with, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and to set a Guinness World Record for fastest cross-country trip by wheelchair.
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Filed Under: disability awareness, housing, long-term care, Olmsted decision, physical disability

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