Gezai Gebrekidan, left, and the Dumlao family, from left, mom Suzanne holding Jacob, Zoe, dad Jeffrey, Finley, Carmella, and Autumn, along with grandmother Lili Desjardins, in front of their new home, a wheelchair-accessible duplex, through Habitat for Humanity...
Accessible Homes
Home sweet accessible home: National HUD award recipients
Making homes accessible obviously benefits people who are disabled. It also benefits those who are able-bodied, according to an accessibility expert who spoke at a recent workshop for landlords. It benefits people who can walk and see and hear because, as taxpayers,...
Bend housing crisis hard times for the disabled
ADA-compliant living spaces in severe shortage By Marina Starleaf Riker, The Bulletin When 75-year-old Sidney Goodwin’s leg was amputated two years ago after an accident, he expected to give up things like driving and walking. What he wasn’t ready for was that...
Wisconsin couple donates accessible home for vet with family
Kevin and Rhonda Hendricks stand in front of the home they are donating to a veteran with a family. The handicapped-accessible home, which is still under construction, will be among 10 in the South Central Wisconsin Builders Association's Parade of Homes in September....
Friends of Johnson County Developmental Supports provides affordable, accessible housing
BY BETH LIPOFFSpecial to The Star The dust was flying on a muggy Saturday in June as a group of volunteers began ripping up carpets, pulling down cabinets and even knocking down some of the walls of a house in Gardner. In a few months, this 1960s ranch house will be...