Affordable, accessible housing solutions overdue for people with disabilities

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According to researchers for the Technical Assistance Collaborative and the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities’ Housing Task Force, “This housing affordability crisis deprives hundreds of thousands of people with disabilities of a basic human need: a place of their own to call home.”

Under the Fair Housing Act, Section 504, and the ADA, tenants with disabilities are legally entitled to reasonable accommodations to enable us to live independently. But all too often, those of us who wish to rent one of these properties must either pay for accommodations for our disabilities by ourselves or file a complaint with the federal Office of Civil Rights.