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Home improvement (ramp) Program for a disabled person?
Question : Home improvement (ramp) Program for a disabled person?
I have a son that is paralyzed and is mobile in a wheel chair. My porch is old and I needed improved with a ramp to be able to move him. I am older, so he is confined to the house unless relatives come to pick him up in the wheel chair. This is dangerous and the problem will get worst as I get older. Also, I am retired and lived on a fixed income. Please let me know about programs. I live in Chicago.
chicago home improvement
Best answer:
Answer by chiliswoman
Call Access for Living.
Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago
115 West Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60610
(312) 640-2100 voice
(800) 613-8549 toll free
(312) 640-2102 tty
(888) 253-7003 toll free tty
(312) 6402101 fax
generalinfo@accessliving.org email
Maintaining two modification funds which Housing Choice voucher (Section 
holders and private homeowners can use to make their homes more accessible.
Neighborhood Improvement Project
The Neighborhood Improvement Project (NIP) is a program of the MCC that has provided a variety of services to Milwaukee residents since 1975. It offers housing rehabilitation, graffiti removal, a ramp program, minor home repair, affordable housing production, and a Youthbuild program. (See detailed information on each program below.)
NIP’s mission is:
1. To improve the housing conditions of low-income (especially the elderly) owner occupants currently residing in deteriorating and/or unsafe homes within targeted areas; and
2. To provide meaningful work experience for youth from Milwaukee’s central city.
Through grants provided by the City of Milwaukee’s Community Block Grant Administration (CBGA), NIP provides a broad range of home repair services, from making structural and code compliant improvements, to upgrading mechanical systems, eliminating lead hazards, and providing wheelchair access for the physically challenged. NIP employs young adults from the neighborhoods in which homes are improved.
For more details on any of the following programs, please contact:
Neighborhood Improvement Project
1223 S. 23 Street
Milwaukee, WI 53204
Phone: (414) 643-7704
Email: nip@mccwi.org