How to Make Your Home Accessible

Real Estate|How to Make Your Home Accessible

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/16/realestate/home-accessible-tips-wheelchair.html

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How to Make Your Home Accessible

Tap into the resources available from states, nonprofits, developers and housing groups to make spaces work for families of all abilities.

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Ellen Ladau and her daughter, Emily, are both power wheelchair users. They have slowly made their kitchen more accessible by experimenting with the placement of cookware and storage. Credit…Andy Ryan for The New York Times

By Jaclyn Greenberg

Jaclyn Greenberg is a freelance writer who has intimate knowledge about accessibility, inclusion, parenting and finance. As a parent with a child with disabilities, she is continually modifying her home.

July 16, 2023

Tatiana Martinez needed an accessible home. Her then 7-year-old son, who uses a wheelchair, was too heavy to carry upstairs to his second-floor bedroom.

“I constrained my home search to within a few towns from where I was already living because I wanted to remain with the same school services for my son,” said Ms. Martinez, a resident of Union County, N.J.

After her three-year search, Ms. Martinez [...]