{"id":411205,"date":"2026-07-24T20:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/411205\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T20:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:59:16","slug":"many-angelenos-biggest-housing-barrier-is-accessibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/411205\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Angelenos&#8217; biggest housing barrier is accessibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2014 July marks Disability Pride Month, a time to celebrate inclusion while also highlighting the many barriers people with disabilities still face.<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest issues is one most Angelenos can relate to: housing.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates explain that for people with disabilities, the issue is two-sided. When a home isn&#8217;t accessible and affordable, independence is out of reach.<\/p>\n<p>With the demand for accessible housing outpacing supply, the shortage is leading to people living in homes that do not meet their needs.<\/p>\n<p>The state of California says there are programs in place that require 10% to 15% of new state-funded homes to have accessibility features for people with mobility and visual or hearing impairments.<\/p>\n<p>However, a majority of Los Angeles homes were built before any ADA requirements went into effect, leaving much of what is available inaccessible for this community.<\/p>\n<p>Click the arrow above to watch the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2014 July marks Disability Pride Month, a time to celebrate inclusion while also highlighting the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[111403,7,1011,48,52,51,47,50,49,5999,28190,5996],"class_list":["post-411205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-app-housing","tag-california","tag-housing","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-socal-what-you-need-to-know","tag-vania-patino","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}