POLICY ISSUES

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• Increase availability of accessible, affordable, permanent housing 

  • Survey the availability of accessible, affordable, permanent housing

  • Build more accessible, affordable, permanent housing

  • Conduct building assessments for upgrades and modifications

  • Establish a resource or portal to search and apply for accessible, affordable, permanent housing

  • Coordinate with real estate listings to include indication of accessible features

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• Increase accessible public transportation and mobility options to allow people to move freely, easily, fairly and unafraid

  • Increase information, physical, financial, and geographic access in the For Hire Vehicle sector (taxis, Uber, Lyft, etc)

  • Invest & innovate in and expand public transportation, regional transportation and paratransit

  • Evaluate and improve entrances, egresses, sidewalks, crosswalks, curb cuts and ramps

 

• Ensure that special education meets the needs of disabled students & their families

  • Fully fund our public schools to ensure up-to-date curriculum, first-rate buildings, smaller class sizes, and up-to-date resources, services and support

  • Ensure stellar special education services for all students with Individualized Education Plans (IEP’S) & Section 504 (of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973) plans

  • Ensure accessible buildings, online equipment, services, and supports

  • Clear and adequate communication to families - in their native language - about their rights as students with disabilities

  • Provide teaching that is inclusive of different learning styles

  • Provide a curriculum that is anti-ablist, anti-racist, anti-oppressive, and inclusive of disability, and other marginalized communities, contributions to society

 

• Ensure access to gainful employment, competitive wages, and accommodating services and supports

  • Establish initiatives and connect dots to put people with disabilities to work

  • Establish a business development council to raise disability consciousness 

  • Establish a talent coalition to connect talent to employment opportunities

  • Organize disabled job seekers & provide workforce development programming

  • Establish IT, cyber security & other technology-based job training 

  • Create partnerships for inclusive internships

 

• Guarantee access at the polls and through absentee voting 

  • Ensure physical access to polling locations and voting machines

  • Ensure accessibility to the absentee voting process

  • Ensure effective, disability-conscious poll worker training

  • Ensure effective, disability-conscious voter engagement

  • Ensure that people will disabilities are represented in poll work/volunteerism

 

• Work to make sure public, private & non profit institutions are just, fair, and inclusive, championing people with disabilities’ right to participate, proposer, and reach our full potential

 

• Build community power together to make Detroit the most inclusive & accessible city in America!

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