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GREENSBORO, N.C. -- A special apartment complex for a special group of people is about to be built in Winston-Salem.
The Hunters Hills Apartments will house people with mental and physical disabilities. The community will consist of an apartment building, a community building, and community garden.
The complex is a collaboration between local non-profit agencies to help low income disabled individuals become more independent. President of the Partners for Home Ownership Jane Milner, "Its for all kinds of disabilities, its people with physical, disabilities, mental disabilities, people who may have been injured in the war, people who have been injured in some other way along the way, so its really for anyone, but extremely low income is part of the criteria."
Prospective Hunters Hill tenants must meet several criteria, including having a documented disability, income at or below 30% of the area median income, a source of income such as Social Security Disability Insurance or Veteran's Disability, and other eligibility.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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