ADAPT reports success

[loyalsister]

The spent 5 days in DC. They blocked doors demanding meetings, took over a hotel lobby, held training sessions and planning meets, visited and talked with legislators, AND got results. Wall Street Occupiers could learn from them.

(Washington D.C.) We want Kaiser! echoed throughout the Hyatt on Capitol hill as over 400 activists took over the hotel lobby and elevators demanding a meeting with the Executive Director of The Public Housing Authorities Directors Association: Timothy G. Kaiser. ADAPT demanded and got that meeting and additionally secured a meeting with the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities (CLPHA) in order to get people out of expensive institutions and into their own homes.

(Washington D.C.) ADAPT's "No More Excuses" campaign continued today with dazzling success with two traditionally stubborn organizations. ADAPT won a meeting with the, the chairperson of the Republican National Committee (RNC) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) committed to write a letter to public housing authorities concerning a preference for housing subsidies for people with disabilities leaving an institution and needing housing.

Thomas Josefiak of the RNC was able to sign a letter making the important commitment for a meeting with Chairperson Ken Mehlman.
ADAPT had success this legislative term with the passage of Money Follows the Person which was a bill to assist people avoid expensive and undesirable institutionalization. MiCASSA, the Community Choice Act is bipartisan legislation that can help complete the full inclusion of people with disabilities in our society.

http://www.adapt.org/freeourpeople/aar/excuse/index.htm