Complex for Disabled Has Long Waiting List
Nearly 150 disabled people are on a waiting list to move into a specially designed Signal Hill apartment complex whose 24 units were taken upon opening earlier this year.
The federally funded complex, owned and operated by the Crippled Children’s Society of Southern California, features ramp access, wider doors for wheelchairs and lowered light switches.
One of eight housing communities owned and operated by the society, it also offers its low-income, disabled tenants 24-hour telephone access to a service center inside the complex.
The project, in the 2000 block of Gaviota Avenue, houses physically and mentally disabled tenants. It was funded by a $2.4-million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and $860,000 from Signal Hill’s redevelopment agency.
“We wish we could do more than 24 units,” society spokesman Bernard Sandalow said. “Obviously there’s a tremendous need for this kind of housing.”
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