OpEd: We can name the accessible housing gap. Can we close it?

For more than 25 years, I navigated health care systems, conducted exhaustive searches for accessible housing and a built environment that was not designed for families like mine. Caring for a family member with complex needs is a lived experience like none other.

That experience is what led me to establish 3iHoME, a Maine-based nonprofit whose mission is to develop accessible, affordable and supportive housing so that people with mobility impairments and physical disabilities can live independently, in their communities, with dignity. I am writing to commend the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for addressing the gaping hole that affects thousands of families in the Bay State and to seize the moment.

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