Fair Housing Videos For The Deaf

Fair Housing Videos for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

This is an introduction to the Fair Housing Video Series for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. This is a series of 12 videos that was Developed with funding from a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under the Fair Housing Initiatives Program. The videos were produced by the National Fair Housing Alliance and Disability Independence Group. Special thanks to Sweetwater Media for the filming of these videos.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is pleased to announce the creation of 12 videos in American Sign Language (ASL) with English captioning.

Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity for the Deaf - This is video 9 of 12 in the Fair Housing Video Series for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. It provides information about fair housing for the Deaf and describes common problems faced by persons who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing in the buying, renting, and use of a home.

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Federal Bans Housing For Deaf Seniors

The U.S. Federal government builds housing bans for Deaf seniors.

TEMPE, Arizona -- The United States government has three important functions. Collecting taxpayer money, building housing for Deaf seniors and making housing for Deaf seniors illegal.

his is a true story of how the government fulfilled two of its main functions at the same time by building and banning housing for Deaf seniors.

Arizona is defying a federal order to eliminate apartments for Deaf seniors at a housing complex built specifically for the Deaf.

A 2005 federal study found that the U.S. had virtually no affordable housing for the Deaf. So the federal government helped build Apache ASL Trails, a 75-unit apartment building in Tempe, Arizona., designed specifically for the Deaf. Ninety-percent of the units are currently occupied by Deaf and Deaf-Blind seniors.

But now, the federal The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development says Apache ASL Trails violates civil rights law because it shows a preference for the hearing-impaired.

HUD is threatening to pull all federal housing aid to Arizona unless it limits the number of hearing-impaired residents to 18 people.

However, when HUD approved and helped fund the project in 2008, it did so knowing that the property was specifically “designed for seniors who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing and Deaf-Blind.”... Read The Fully Story.

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