Federal Bans Housing For Deaf Seniors

Monday, October 28, 2013

Federal Bans Housing For Deaf Seniors

Federal government builds housing for Deaf seniors, bans housing for Deaf seniors.



FrontPage Magazine: 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 more: http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/federal-gov-builds-housing-for-deaf-seniors-bans-housing-for-deaf-seniors/



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Arizona Mom & Deaf Daughter Upset With UPS

Monday, September 2, 2013

Arizona Mom & Deaf Daughter Upset With UPS

Glendale mom and Deaf daughter upset with UPS. She and her daughter never received it and she can't get anyone to at UPS to help her.

GLENDALE, Arizona. - Katelyn Nerhood is an affectionate little 9-year-old girl who happens to be Deaf. But that doesn't keep her from communicating with the people she loves, like her mom, Melody Nerhood. "Her world is different than ours," says Nerhood. "I mean, she can't hear our conversations. She can't hear music. She can't hear TV."



Nerhood says her daughter suffers from a disorder called CHARGE Syndrome. The disorder, she says, has left her Katelyn completely deaf and her vision partially impaired.



But, like most nine year olds, Katelyn still loves to play games and have fun. That's exactly why Melody bought her daughter a device called the Nabi2, which is supposed to help kids learn and have fun at the same time.



Melody says her daughter had the device for about a year. However, two months ago when it stopped working, she mailed it back, and Nabi sent her another one. Nabi used United Parcel Service, commonly referred to as UPS, for shipping. But Melody says she and her daughter never received it and she can't get anyone to at UPS to help her.



"Nobody ever contacts me," she says. "I just keep getting the runaround."



UPS sent Melody an email notice indicating they successfully delivered the gadget way back in June and left it in the "rear entrance."



UPS even lists the date, time and address of the delivery. However, when looking at the UPS email, they clearly document the wrong numerical address. Instead of delivering it to Nerhood's town home, UPS misread the address and left it all the way on the other side of her complex at the "rear entrance" of a completely different home. And the package has been missing since then. Read more: http://www.azfamily.com/news/Glendale-mom-and-deaf-daughter-upset-with-UPS--221216601.html