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[Headline] Congressional Proposal for Basic Access in All New Federally Assisted Homes Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) has re-introduced the Inclusive Home Design Act (HR 2353), the national Visitability bill. Visitability is the most basic level of access. In this and most local and state bills there are three main requirements: *at least one no-step entrance; *doors and hallways wider than usual; *and at least a half-bathroom on the first floor big enough to accommodate a person in a wheelchair and allow that person to close the door. You can think of it like a stair step, with Visitability being the most basic, adaptability (as in the Fair Housing Standards for new multifamily housing) being the lower middle level, accessibility (as required by Section 504 and UFAS) being the upper middle level and individually customized access being the top level of access. According to Schakowsky 95% of federally supported homes are not required to meet any standard of accessibility. Yet, architecture and design experts estimate the total average cost per dwell-ing is $98 (on a concrete slab) and $573 (for a dwelling with a basement or crawl space). Several of the communities that already have Visitability laws have found it even less expensive than these estimates. The concept of Visitability has been catching on in pockets around the country for the past decade or so. The first place to require Visitability features in single-family housing paid for with public money was Atlanta in 1992, and was largely as a result of the efforts of the grassroots group Concrete Change. Other cities were quick to follow, including Austin, Chicago, Champaign, Urbana and Bolingbrook, IL and some states have even enacted Visit-ability laws Arizona, Vermont, Texas, Kansas, and Oregon. Visitability improves livability for homeowners as well as their guests. It lasts the lifetime of the house, so even if the first occupants don't need it, it is there for future residents and guests. It supports lifetime living, so as people age and their needs change the house can change with them. It promotes integration through visiting. It makes housing safer as every-one can get in and out. It allows people who develop a disability to continue to enjoy basic access to their homes. In short, it really improves housing. Schakowsky's bill has been referred to the House Committee on Veterans Affairs' Subcommittee on Benefits. Supports of the bill want more co-sponsors. For more information on this and other Visitability initiatives check out Concrete Change's website www.concretechange.org Incitement - ADAPT (1578)
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THE NEWSPAPER POSITIVELY FOR, BY & ABOUT THE DISABLED [Headline] COMMUNITY FIRST [Subheading] ADAPT Activists Demonstrate at NGA Meeting [image] [no image caption] Hundreds of ADAPT activists braved eight hours of Washington snow, rain and cold to assure that the National Governors Association (NGA) would pass a "community first" resolution at their winter meeting. The language in the final document contained some of what ADAPT has been demanding from the governors since July at the NGA annual meeting in Seattle, Wash., but omitted language on Olmstead, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that affirmed the rights of people with disabilities to choose to live free in the community. The final document included all aspects of Medicaid and Medicare, but did specifically address ADAPT's demands in statements like one of the listed principles for change, "follow the principle that money should follow the individual, not a provider or facility." The document additionally addressed ADAPT's push to see the majority of Medicaid long term care funding redirected to support community alternatives over institutional ones, the opposite of what happens now. In a section titled "rebalancing the long term care system" the governors agreed that "consumer-directed home and community-based care is prefer-able" and should be guided by the "preferences of the individual receiving long term care support." What the document didn't include was ADAPT's language that the "NGA work with the individual states to assure that the Supreme Court's Olmstead decision is aggressively implemented and that the measure of this implementation be, in a year, how many people have gotten out of nursing homes and other institutions and how many people have been diverted from nursing homes and other institutions." "In fact, in the final document, the NGA refused to include listing MiCASSA, the Medicaid community-based Attendant Services and Supports Act of 2005, or the Money Follows the Person legislation," said Randy Alexander, ADAPT organizer from Memphis, Tenn. "And they frankly rejected any so-called federal mandates like the Olmstead decision." The governors document did request that Congress and the administration change the institutional bias currently in Medic-aid so that states can "offer elderly and disabled beneficiaries a more balanced choice between nursing home and community-based services." With removal of the institutional bias, NGA says that states will be able to concentrate on "focused efforts to build the capacity of community supports," so they will be readily available to people who desire them. Finally, the NGA resolution seeks Congressional support to help states build "the infrastructure needed to provide home and community-based long term care services," both in terms of workforce and other supports and services necessary for "transition from institutional care to community-based" living. "We got as much as we could from the NGA as a group," said Steve Verriden, ADAPT organizer from Madison, Wis. "Now we need to take it back to our individual states and hold our individual governors accountable to the principles they approved in this document and to the law of the land, as affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court Olmstead decision. The bot-tom line is to get and keep people with disabilities of all ages out of nursing homes and other institutions." - ADAPT (1577)
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