The CA Disability Inclusive Housing Working Group convenes key stakeholders in affordable housing and cross-disability rights to build greater coherence and alignment in disability and housing policy and practice.
While efforts to preserve, produce, and protect affordable housing are happening at the local, regional, state, and federal levels, they frequently lack a disability-forward lens. Similarly, disability advocacy has not always centered housing as a core priority. The California Disability-Forward Housing Working Group exists to bridge these gaps–bringing together housing development and policy advocates and disability rights leaders to ensure that housing solutions fully include the needs and rights of people with disabilities.
May’s Affordable Housing Month invites us to think about the importance of housing access, affordability, and inclusion for all people who need it.
Jennifer’s Housing story meant overcoming obstacles, never losing hope, finding a group of friends that embrace her, and supporting herself at all costs.
Elevating the housing issues impacting people with disabilities, debunk the myths that can prevent real change across the fields of Disability and Affordable Housing, and sharing ideas and resources that can move us closer to a place where all people have the affordable, accessible, and inclusive housing they need.
U.S. based adults with disabilities to learn and become more effective in changing housing policy, early career professionals with disabilities that would like to build credentials in housing, or adults with disabilities who are curious about how housing gets built.
Isaac enjoys the freedom of having his own apartment and appreciates the opportunities for quality disability-forward housing.
Fiona lives in San Francisco, she is the Director of Systems Change at Independent Living Resource Center San Francisco and serves on the San Francisco The Long Term Care Housing Task Force, which The Kelsey also participates in.
Grounded in our mission and values, The Kelsey is joining a national cross-disability campaign to ensure that COVID-19 response and recovery efforts are inclusive to people with disabilities.
The struggles of COVID19 have been acute for those with disabilities, those without housing, and those without secure social support and economic stability. The needs today reinforce the need for affordable, accessible, supportive inclusive housing. You can’t shelter in place if you don’t have access to shelter.