A prototype housing model designed to enable adults with developmental disabilities has proven successful and is expanding across Hamilton County. One, it yields dignity, and it yields the dignity of risk, which almost all of us who do not have a developmental disability, in many ways, take for granted β the opportunity to try things safely and engage the outside world, but to have staff available when and where needed, that is the end game for smart living systems.
The "Smart Living" concept allows people to live independently while still receiving necessary supports and services. Each home combines all kinds of smart technologies like toothbrushes that transmit brushing data, to a refrigerator that can track its contents and provide recipes, and sensors that can detect health emergencies. I'm excited that my work will help other people.
Each house has access to hour remote support, and some do include an in-person support staff member. The nine new homes will be located in Colerain and Springfield townships and Hyde Park. The properties have already been procured, which LADD officials say was challenging in the current housing market.
Additional funding was provided through private donations. The Cincinnati Development Fund is also partnering on the project to assist with construction financing. Design work is underway, and they're slated to break ground in spring , and be ready for residents to move in throughout Three homes will be new construction and six will be renovations. Each of the nine homes will have four residents 36 total residents. LADD debuted its first smart home technologies in , and expanded it a year later.
The homes are grouped in sets of three or more located within a five-mile radius of each other. They're strategically located in walkable neighborhoods near bus lines so people can shop and get to work.
