CHALLENGES AND BEST PRACTICE
Alex Ghenis, a quadriplegic who uses a wheelchair for mobility, is an Oakland-based climate and disability justice advocate and disability rights consultant.
“In California, where the housing
crunch is awful, we do not have good accessible welcoming apartments and condos
that seniors would want to downsize into or the kinds of apartments that people
with disabilities can move into and automatically have a roll-in shower,”
Ghenis observed, noting that the lack of accessible, aging-in-place housing is
failing to put family-sized houses back on the market because seniors have a
lack of accessible, small units to move to.
“I hope to address climate resilience
and disability through land use and the built environment.
We have to be recognizing that we need
to build up accessible housing in places that are hospitable to people with
disabilities and have a certain amount of built-in climate resilience.”
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