by David-Elijah Nahmod
Johnson-Wright has also faced
obstacles in her adult life, such as disability discrimination.
“Every time a
building, a transit station, or a streetscape is designed with an end user in
mind that is the mythical 5-foot, 9-inches, 175-pound, white, non-disabled
male, disability discrimination is there,” she pointed out.
She added that she recently saw a
statistic which said that less than one percent of housing units in the United
States are move-in ready for wheelchair users.
“The other 99 percent require
renovations before someone like me could live there,” she said.
“Imagine going
apartment hunting and knowing that 99 percent of what’s out there will
automatically be off limits to you, simply because you have a disability.”
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