We sat down with Vinita Goyal, the Program Officer in Housing and Transportation for the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, to discuss the SVCF’s work in housing and transit, their support of The Kelsey and our project in San Jose, and the importance of affordable housing to create thriving communities in the Bay Area and beyond.
The Kelsey Co-Founder Micaela Connery’s podcast interview with Kim Albrecht, the founder of advocacy organization LOMAH discussing disability-forward housing for families with children with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
What a year it’s been — fun and challenging, and full of ideas and questions. Every day brings us closer to our goal of building a new model of inclusive community and permanently changing the housing sector to be a more inclusive one across ability and income.
This summer, The Kelsey collaborated with the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association, SPUR, on a three part series about inclusivity and cities.
Micaela Connery discusses Harvard Kennedy School’s support of the first Social Innovation and Change Initiative workshops with people of all abilities across the country.
The work the Center for American Progress and their partners are doing to ensure disability policy has a permanent home in progressive politics is fundamental to ensuring people with disabilities have access to the protections, supports, and services they need. We’re excited to fight for access, inclusion, and equity alongside them.
“My work feels like a really wonderful combination of something that I have a personal connection to while fulfilling a need that not a lot of people are working to address,” she said. According to Connery, one in five people has a disability – a large portion of our population.
For their commencement issue, The Harvard Gazette chose Micaela as the featured alumni from Harvard Kennedy School: Making Disability-Forward Housing Scalable and Sustainable
Micaela Connery investigates the challenges adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities face when searching for a suitable home. Hundreds of thousands of adults with disabilities across the U.S. sit on housing “wait lists” for home and community-based services.