Culdesac
https://culdesac.com
Culdesac YouTube
Culdesac YouTube
Great concept, but I see a few problems with it
My mom's disabled and would LOVE to live in a "community" like that, where there is a sense of community
She uses a rollator walker to get around. There is NO WAY she could do stairs, even if she got someone to carry the walker up the stairs. She has Vertigo as a result of a few TBI's (Traumatic Brain Injuries - abuse related) and can't look up/down without getting dizzy and sees double out of her left eye
She gets around if she has an elevator, etc. She has her groceries delivered. She meets them on the main floor with her large cart so they don't have to carry them up multiple stairs or via the elevator
Culdesac does have (2) WalMart's within 4 miles of them for grocery delivery, but they wouldn't be open to carrying groceries up the stairs, because of no elevator and needing to make multiple trips
Having multi-generational housing is good for the older generation. It keeps them young and movivated.
Having multi-generational housing is good for the younger generation. It teaches them the concept of "family"
Isolating the younger generation just teaches them more of "Me, me, me"
Definitely creating division and less about "community"
The only way mom could live at Culdesac would be on the main floor. For a disabled person being on the first floor can also be isolating. There's no view to look out at when they can't, for whatever reason, leave their apartment
From what I can gather from this video and their website they cater to a MUCH younger generation and it's not the disabled
Isn't that discrimination?
Isn't that against the Fair Housing Act of Arizona?
The ADA, American Disabilities Act
https://www.google.com/search?client=avast-a-1&q=american+disabilities+act
Video from Pubity at https://www.tiktok.com/@pubity
EVERY senior community needs an inoperable car with working radio in their parking lot. That way the senior can sit in it rocking out for the memories. For some that might be the only joy they have in life, especially if their families have taken them to senior communities or nursing homes and rarely, if ever, visit.
We think ALL HUD housing needs Solar. Just think of all the money they'd save the government!
Susan Auslander, age 89, Spearheaded a Solar-Energy Drive in Connecticut and it worked!
An octogenarian Hunter College alumna has spearheaded a successful drive to install solar panels throughout her Connecticut retirement community — and she’s just getting started.
(This was not for low income housing, but it could be.)
CLICK HERE TO READ WHAT SHE DID
Her Retirement Home Said ‘No’ to Solar Panels. She Got It to Buy 1,344.
In what seemed like a futile fight with her retirement community’s management, Susan Auslander, just shy of 90, found an opening.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT WHAT Susan Auslander did
Things my mom did when she lived in MN before she came back home to Colorado (Click news article name to read more.)
Got a bus stop at the library
and
Marshall woman petitions to have bus stop at library
Helped turn ALL HUD housing into non-smoking
Another game-changer in the works to eliminate smoking
and
HUD SECRETARY CASTRO ANNOUNCES PUBLIC HOUSING TO BE SMOKE-FREE
New rule protects health and safety of residents, saves PHAs millions of dollars in preventable damage
Nov 30, 2016
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), HUD's national smoke-free policy will save public housing agencies $153 million every year in repairs and preventable fires, including $94 million in secondhand smoke-related health care, $43 million in renovation of smoking-permitted units, and $16
https://archives.hud.gov/news/2016/pr16-184.cfm#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20Centers%20for,smoking%2Dpermitted%20units%2C%20and%20%2416
(Just think of how much it would save our government to add solar to HUD/low income housing!)
How To Use The Internet To Pay For Your Dental Bills
This is how mom got the funds to finance some of her dental work 8 years ago
(THE LINKS THEY TALK ABOUT FOR MOM ARE NO LONGER VALID - THIS WAS FILMED 8 YEARS AGO)
This is mom's interview on a National podcast. She was also interviewed by NBC National News about the harassment and stalking she's endured in 1994. It's off-and-on to this day, December 13, 2023.
