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Building Opportunity Through Inclusivity

Advancing disability-forward housing solutions that open doors to homes and opportunities for everyone.

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“I can’t tell you how much better a community member I can be when where I live I’m being accepted by my neighbors, my neighborhood, my whole community.”

Debra, The Kelsey Ayer Station Resident
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Kelsey’s Story

What started with Kelsey has become a movement co-led by people with and without disabilities to build a disability-forward housing future. 

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2026 Disability-Forward Housing Futures Summit

Tickets are now available for our second annual Disability-Forward Housing Futures Summit! Join us Wednesday, December 2, 2026, virtually or at Berkeley’s Ed Roberts Campus — a trailblazing model of inclusive, universal design. Building on last year’s momentum, this year’s programming will be rooted in the core pillars of disability-forward housing: affordable, accessible, and inclusive housing explored through a three-part, single-room journey: Ground, Deep Dive, and Mobilize. 

 

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660 homes developed and supported
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$207M Unlocked to Support Disability-Forward Housing
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10,000+ Community Leaders Engaged
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Advancing Disability-Forward Housing, Together

We provide technical assistance and project management for organizations across all stages of their disability-forward housing efforts. Whether structuring community engagement, doing site feasibility, selecting a development partner, overseeing a housing project launch, managing design partners, and beyond, The Kelsey supports people with a vision for inclusive housing to bring projects to life. Past clients include municipalities, affordable housing developers, disability service providers, universities, housing finance organizations, and family groups. Most of our technical assistance projects are grant-funded, and we partner with clients to help secure support for this work.

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There are over four million adults with disabilities whose sole source of income is Supplemental Security Income (SSI). They are priced out of every housing market in the country and would have to spend 145% of their entire income to afford basic housing.

Resident Stories

Our communities demonstrate what becomes possible when accessibility, affordability, and inclusion are central to every choice we make. The Kelsey residents – people with and without disabilities, representing a wide range of backgrounds and lived experiences – are the most powerful voices in showing the impact of disability-forward housing. We’re honored that they’ve shared their experiences with us.

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Four illustrated portraits of The Kelsey residents. From left to right, Jonta, a Black woman with long brown hair, is smiling and wearing a black t-shirt. Jake, a white man with brown hair pulled into a ponytail, wears a plaid shirt and sits in his wheelchair, smiling. Barry, a man with short black hair and glasses, is softly smiling and wearing a red t-shirt. Darcy, a white woman with short blonde hair, is wearing a purple patterned shirt and sitting in her wheelchair, smiling.

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