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Exploring the Opportunities:
Affordable, Accessible, and Integrated Housing 101 - Part Two
About
the Presenters
Jay Klein is a recognized expert on housing and
has been a pioneer in assisting people with disabilities to move
from institutional settings into homes of their own. Jay is the
Director of the Center for Housing and New Community Economics (CHANCE)
and the National Home of Your Own Alliance at the Institute on Disability
(IOD) at the University of New Hampshire.
CHANCE was created by the IOD, ADAPT, and a broad coalition of
individuals and organizations concerned with housing, personal assistance,
and economic equity to improve access to integrated, affordable,
and accessible housing coordinated with, but separate from, personal
assistance and supportive services. CHANCE maintains the National
Home of Your Own Alliance, a technical assistance center and clearinghouse,
through a website, a toll-free information and referral line, and
responses to requests for information and publications.
Jay is an international leader in efforts to include people with
disabilities in the mainstream of community life. As an educator,
community organizer, project director, and author, Jay has worked
on policy and practice related to the economic and social participation
of people with disabilities in order to foster inclusion in their
communities. Throughout his career, Jay has administered a variety
of projects in collaboration with federal and state agencies, with
a focus on state and federal policy analysis, model demonstration,
technical assistance, and interdisciplinary training. He has in-depth
knowledge of and experience with financial, policy and programmatic
issues that effect the ability of people with disabilities to accumulate
assets to live in communities, and is widely respected for his ability
to translate best practices into everyday realities for people with
disabilities and their families.
Jay has presented and collaborated extensively in the United States
and internationally. He has provided technical assistance to individuals,
families, agencies, and policy makers throughout the country and
abroad on supporting individuals with disabilities to live in their
communities. Jay has been an active member of numerous national
advisory boards and groups, and has provided testimony to Congress.
He currently serves as an adjunct faculty member at Colorado State
University.
Some of Jay’s publications on topics such as housing, home
ownership, systems change, community development, and supported
living include: The History and Development of a National Homeownership
Initiative; Post Cards on the Refrigerator: Changing the Power Dynamic
in Housing and Support; Homeownership for People with Disabilities:
The State of the States in 1999; A Home of Your Own Guide: Training
Manual for Homebuyers Education; and Get Me the Hell Out of Here:
Supporting People with Disabilities to Live in Their Own Homes.
Contact Information
Jay Klein
Center for Housing and New Community Economics (CHANCE)
4028 Crescent Drive
Fort Collins, CO 80526
(800) 220-8770 (V)
Jay.Klein@unh.edu
Stephen F. Gold is an attorney who specializes
in civil rights and represents only persons with disabilities.
Besides representing numerous individuals with disabilities in
discrimination lawsuits, he also represents ADAPT and NOT DEAD
YET.
Mr. Gold successfully brought the "curb cut"
lawsuit, Kinney v. Yerusalem, arguing that whenever a municipality
resurfaces a street, it must ensure access to that street by installing
curb cuts. As a result of this lawsuit, communities will become
fully accessible.
He also successfully argued the case, Helen
L., that a state discriminates against a person by requiring
them to receive services in a segregated nursing home, rather
than providing them services in the community. This lawsuit established
the legal principle that persons with disabilities are entitled
to receive services "in the most integrated setting appropriate"
to their needs and the failure to provide those services was discriminatory.
The Supreme Court in the Olmstead decision followed the legal
principle and consequently, "the most integrated setting"
is now the law of the land. As a result of this lawsuit, advocates
can help people in nursing homes live in the communities with
personal assistance services.
Mr. Gold litigated a national action ADAPT v.
HUD on behalf of numerous national organizations, including
ADAPT and NCIL, arguing that HUD has failed to enforce the requirements
of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Federal Fair Housing
Act of 1988 which require that local public entities, receiving
federal financial assistance, construct and rehabilitate both
rental and home ownership dwelling units so that 5 percent of
these dwelling units be accessible for persons with mobility disabilities
and one percent for persons with visual and hearing disabilities.
In ADAPT v. Philadelphia Housing Authority, a federal court
required the local housing agnecy to construct 5% accessible units.
He has brought other houses cases on behalf of persons with disabilities.
In Young v. District of Columbia Housing Authority, a federal
court settlement requires 565 accessible units be constructed
and will increase the values of vouchers under the Section 8 program.
In Liberty Resources Inc.v. SEPTA, the federal
court ruled that paratransit services must be provided to all
eligible persons who request a "next day ride."
He also wrote the amicus brief for NOT DEAD YET
and ADAPT in "physician-assisted" suicide case before
the United States Supreme Court, arguing that people with severe
disabilities are discriminated against because physicians do not
require the same suicide prevention procedures for persons with
and without disabilities. The brief argues that physician-assisted
suicide will discriminate as long as physicians do not value people
with severe disabilities.
He has also written an amicus brief against a "wrongful
life" action, arguing that hospitals violate Section 504
the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to deny children
with actual or potential disabilities the same level of medical
care as nondisabled children receive.
He wrote the amicus brief for ADAPT, NCIL and TASH
in the Olmstead v LC case before the Supreme Court, arguing
that it is discrimination under the ADA to fail to provide services
in "the most integrated setting" for persons with disabilities.
His Information Bulletins, which have a national
circulation of more than 6,000 advocates and persons with disabilities,
have dealt with housing, nursing homes, education, and medical
assistance.
Contact Information:
Steve Gold
125 S. 9th St., Suite 700
Philadelphia, PA 19107
215-627-7100 (v)
215-627-3183 (f)
stevegoldada@cs.com
www.stevegoldada.com
This Web cast is supported through The Community
Living Exchange Collaborative at ILRU (in collaboration with Rutgers
Center for State Health Policy, through funding from the Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services; the ILRU Olmstead training
project, "Disability Advocacy in an a Post Olmstead Environment,"
a project funded through the U. S. Department of Education, Office
of Special Education andRehabilitative Services, Rehabilitation
Services Administration; and The Disability Law Resource Project
(DLRP), a project of ILRU. DLRP (http://www.dlrp.org) is one of
ten Disability and Business Technical Assistance Centers (DBTACs)
funded by theNational Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation
Research (NIDRR) (grant number H133D010210) to provide training,
technical assistance and materials dissemination on the ADA and
other disability-related laws. NIDRR is part of the U.S. Department
of Education.
The opinions and views expressed are those of the
presenters and no endorsement of any of the funding agencies should
be inferred.
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