Illuminating the Housing Crisis and Needs of Adults with Autism and I/DD

• By: Toyosi Adesoye, JD/MPA Avery Mickens First Place Global Leadership Institute
• September 15th, 2025
• adults, affordable housing, caregiver planning, Fall 2025 Issue, HCBS waivers, housing, housing crisis, I/DD support, independent living, neuro-inclusive communities, social inclusion
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Access to safe, affordable and inclusive housing remains one of the most urgent challenges for adults with autism and/or intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). Recognizing this, a bold initiative from the First Place Global Leadership Institute (First Place Global) informs the...

Aging with Autism: Innovations for Independent Living to Address the Housing Crisis

• By: Stacey Ledbetter Nflyte
• October 2nd, 2023
• aging caregivers, assistive technology, autistic adults, Fall 2023 Issue, housing crisis, independent living, innovation, lifelong support, mobile apps, parental advocacy, services cliff, smart home, supportive communities, technology, transition to adulthood
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At the beginning of the COVID pandemic, a friend came down with a particularly bad case of the virus which required emergency transport to the hospital. Laying on the gurney in the back of the ambulance she panicked as they placed the oxygen mask over her face. The EMS workers were frustrated with...

Autism’s Growing Problem

• By: Rabbi Simcha Weinstein Jewish Autism Network
• May 5th, 2023
• advocacy, COVID-19, education, finding support, hospitalization, housing crisis, Jewish Autism Network, meltdowns, parenting, residential school, summer camp
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As kids with autism become teenagers and adults, fewer and fewer services are available to help them and their families In March 2020, my wife and I dropped our teenage son off at a residential school for kids with autism in Boston. It was the day after Purim - just before the world seemed to...