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Text on image reads, “Housing Accessibility: Needs & Opportunities in Detroit. August 2025. Housing & Revitalization Department, Policy Development & Implementation Division.” An image of an entrance to an apartment building is visible behind the text. The City of Detroit’s logo is in the lower right corner.
Housing Housing Accessibility: Needs & Opportunities in Detroit Report The City of Detroit Housing & Revitalization Department’s Policy Development & Implementation Division partnered with Detroit Disability Power and The...
A hand holding a dry-erase marker rests on top of several sheets of architectural plans for a multifamily housing development.
Design The Inclusive Design Standards and Rehabilitation Projects The Inclusive Design Standards were developed with new multifamily housing in mind, but they can also inform and enhance other...
An image of people with and without disabilities, some standing and some in wheelchairs, putting large and colorful building blocks together.
Advocacy Inclusive Design Standards: A Tool to Advance Housing for Municipalities The Inclusive Design Standards offer design and operations recommendations for municipalities to support the creation of disability-forward housing. This practical...
Big Ideas Disability and Housing Storytelling Guide By sharing our stories, we can debunk the dominant, often untrue, narratives about disability and housing and advocate for a...
A colorful rendering of a lobby with a large mural on the wall depicting people of different races, and a single staircase with different colored balusters at the right side of the room. Adults and children inhabit the space; one child uses crutches while a woman kneels next to him; an adult stands on the stair landing while another child walks up the stairs; an adult carrying a child looks at the mural; a woman sipping coffee and holding a purse prepares to take the stairs to the second floor. There are plants in the corners of the room and a prominent, hanging light fixture above the base of the stairs.
Advocacy, Design Single-Stair Reform and People with Disabilities Single-stair reform is gaining momentum across the U.S., with the possibility of reshaping housing accessibility, affordability, and design. By allowing...
Text on image reads, “Friday, March 14th, 10AM–11AM PST. Shaping Inclusive Housing: The Kelsey’s QAP Advocacy Guide Launch & Advocates Panel.” Sandra Conley (Disability Advocate), Benji Kemper (Center for Living and Working), Marcos Segura (National Housing Law Project), and Hunter Herrera-McFarland (The Kelsey) are pictured. Sandra Conley is a dark-skinned woman with blonde locs. She is wearing red lipstick, brown glasses, and a blue shirt with a green scarf. Benji Kemper is a white man with short hair, wearing glasses and a blue polo shirt. Marcos Segura is a tan-skinned man wearing glasses, and a white button-down under a black suit jacket. Hunter Herrera-McFarland is a light-skinned Native woman with long black hair, black glasses, and a burgundy shirt, smiling in front of a brick background. Pink, orange, cream, and black shapes make up the background of the image.
Advocacy Shaping Inclusive Housing: The Kelsey’s QAP Advocacy Guide Launch and Advocates Panel The Kelsey celebrated the launch of An Advocate’s Guide to Advancing Disability-Forward Housing through Qualified Allocation Plans (QAPs), a new...
People hold a large piece of paper with the design plans of a building on it.
Advocacy An Advocate’s Guide to Advancing Disability-Forward Housing through Qualified Allocation Plans The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC), the primary driver of affordable housing, lacks federal requirements for deeply affordable, accessible units...
An open book displaying a floor plan. A laptop is visible behind the book but it is out of focus.
Finance Profit with Purpose: Investing in Inclusive Housing Quite contrary to conventional thinking, designing with disability in mind does not have to be more costly; rather, it can...
Isaac Haney Owens speaks in front of San Francisco City Hall. There is a table on one side of him and renderings of The Kelsey Civic Center behind him
Advocacy How Local & State Governments Can Better Ensure Accessible Homes Reach Disabled Tenants Governments can take steps to ensure accessible homes are matched with disabled tenants. This can be done through specific best...
People sit in a line of wheelchairs. A person is seen holding an American Flag with the wheelchair symbol on it made out of stars
Big Ideas Working Together at the Intersection of Disability and Homelessness
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