Spring 2022: Disability and Housing
Get an inside perspective on a local shelter, explore universal design, and review the laws that protect the rights of people with disabilities and their service animals.
Edition: Spring 2022 Disability and Housing
In this issue we get an inside perspective on a local shelter, explore universal design, and review the laws that protect the rights of people with disabilities and their service animals. This issue also includes a featured section where we dive into the topic of divisive concepts and the role intersectionality plays in our fight for disability rights.
Taking Shelter
By Winter Trabex
My journey from stable housing, to homelessness, and back to stable housing has been a difficult one. I have experienced eviction, the shelter system, being on the street, living in an RV, staying with a friend, and finally moving into my current stable housing situation.
I’m transgender and disabled....
Recommendations for a More Inclusive Shelter System
Physical accessibility
Ensure that all public areas of shelters (e.g., entrance, kitchen, bathrooms, common and sleeping areas) are accessible to participants with disabilities including vision impairments, deaf and hard of hearing, physical and mental health disabilities, severe allergies and chemical sensitivities,...
Know Your Housing Rights
By DRC-NH staff
In both private and public housing, federal and state laws protect the rights of people with disabilities. Those laws apply to a variety of housing providers including landlords, property managers, homeowners’ associations, and condo boards. Prohibited: Discrimination against people with disabilities...
Are Institutions a Thing of the Past?
By Kelly Nye-Lengerman
Throughout history, people with intellectual and developmental (ID/DD) and other disabilities living in institutions may have experienced abuse, exploitation, and isolation. In order to prevent these transgressions in the future, we must continue to insist individuals living with ID/DD have choice,...
A Little Help from Your Friends
By DRC-NH staff
Federal and state nondiscrimination laws protect the rights of people with disabilities to have service animals and emotional support animals in their apartments, even when the housing provider has a policy that does not allow pets (or a certain type of animal such as a dog). Service animals are individually...