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Public Hearing for NJ Transit

i Aug 19th No Comments by

Please take a look at the following message from NJ Transit on their upcoming Public Hearing to receive comments from interested parties concerning programs developed pursuant to the Senior Citizen & Disabled Residents Transportation Assistance Program Act.

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Please Sign This Letter!

i Feb 26th No Comments by

New Jersey’s Centers for Independent Living are a vital part of the disability community, yet are consistently underfunded. For this reason, the New Jersey Association of Centers for Independent Living is asking for state funding in the amount of 4 million dollars to be divided amongst the 11 Centers across New Jersey. Please sign our letter endorsing our efforts and showing the Governor the importance of disability-led organizations!

See the letter here.

HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER (HCV) PROGRAM

i Jan 24th No Comments by
HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER (HCV) PROGRAM
 
Enrollment Period is Monday February 4, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. to Friday February 8, 2019 at 5:00 p.m.
 
For questions about the Statewide Waiting List Lottery, dial 2-1-1
 
The HCV Program is a federally funded program that provides housing subsidies on behalf of low-income persons for decent, safe and sanitary housing. Persons applying must meet all of the US Department of Housing
and Urban Development’s (HUD) income and eligibility requirements. All Pre-applications submitted on-line for housing assistance will be accepted through a lottery process. 15,000 pre-applications that are selected through the lottery will be placed on the waiting list. You must be eighteen (18) years of age or older to apply, or an emancipated minor.
 
Only one (1) pre-application per household per county will be accepted.
 
https://www.nj.gov/dca/vouchers.html
 
Project Freedom West Windsor Pre Applications Now Being Accepted
 
Project Freedom is pleased to announce the construction of our latest affordable housing community: Freedom Village at West Windsor. This
seventy two unit apartment community will feature one, two and three bedroom apartments, surrounding a large Community center only steps away from the West Windsor Train Station. The buildings are a two story design with private entrances in front and all are totally barrier free and accessible for wheelchair users. The buildings will have elevators, central heat and air conditioning incorporating Energy Star design
features as well as being LEEDs compliant. Ample off street parking adjacent to each building will provide easy access to each unit.
 
Although all units are barrier free and accessible, all units are affordable, and welcome disabled and non-disabled families. These units are regulated as to income eligibility under the Low Income Housing Tax
Credit Program
 
Presently, construction is on-going with the community to be completed in the early Summer of 2019.
 
Tenant Pre- applications will be taken, beginning January 1, 2019 and ending March 1, 2019.
 
https://www.projectfreedom.org/locations-contacts/west-windsor-nj/

TRENTON ARTISTS WORKSHOP EXHIBITION “PERSISTENCE” SET AT PLAINSBORO LIBRARY

i Jan 4th No Comments by
For Immediate Release:
The Trenton Artists Workshop Association (TAWA) will present the exhibition “Persistence” at the Plainsboro Public Library from January 4th
to January 31st. A  reception and artist talk is set for Sunday, January 20th from 1 to 4 PM .
“Persistence” features work by regional artists who demonstrate persistence despite what are commonly perceived as obstacle: age, illness, and physical and neurological problems.
In addition to providing a venue for artists to come together and share work, “Persistence” is designed to encourage others by showing how these
artists use art to enhance their lives and continue their pursuit of art.
Exhibiting artists will be Priscilla Snow Algava, a Princeton-based artist who works mainly in mono-prints and painting and is inspired by nature and the human spirit and figure. She has exhibited in various galleries in New York City, Philadelphia, and New Jersey as well as internationally. Agalva has been receiving treatment for cancer over the past two years.
Justin Jedrzejczyk is a Trenton area artist and has shown his work locally and in New York City. He mainly does portraits, using friends as models in everyday settings and paints in acrylic on canvas. Over the past several years he has been dealing with a neurological problem that has affected his eyesight.
Ken Alexander is a self-taught Trenton based painter. His work focuses on the human experience in various settings. Despite being visually impaired, he uses vivid colors in his work and tends to use abstraction in representing his figures.
Mark Wilkie is a Hamilton native uses various detailed shapes and works in pen and pencil and has a neurological classification.
Mel Leipzig is an award-winning artist. He is a painter who dedicates his career to painting people in their own environments. His painting of Michael Austin shows the human spirit and represents how an artist can use art to overcome obstacles to strengthen their lives. The 83-year old Leipzig shows that age is no obstacle to new work.
Karey Maurice is a Princeton based artist who works in multiple mediums and works in the style of neo pop and suffers from a spinal cord degeneration. He studied visual arts at Mercer County Community College with Mel Leipzig and Frank Rivera and mentored under New York based pop artist Keith Haring.
And curator Byron Aubrey, a Trenton-born Hamilton resident who is active in drawing, photography, and painting and who studies visual arts at Mercer County Community College. He studied and was mentored under Pricilla Algava and Mel Leipzig and has a neurological classification. This is the first show he has curated.
TAWA is a Greater Trenton nonprofit organization and has a history of more than 30 years exhibiting in such venues as the New Jersey State Museum, Trenton City Museum, Artworks Trenton, Prince Street Gallery in New York City, and more.
The Plainsboro Library is located at 9 Van Doren Street in Plainsboro. Hours are Mondays through Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., and Friday and Saturdays from 10 am to 5 pm.  For more information on the library, call 609 275-2897
For more information on the Trenton Artists Workshop Association, contact tawaexhibits@aol.com or the organization’s Facebook page,https://www.facebook.com/groups/1462432427334738/.
Please note —
For media contacts only: Byron Aubrey can be reached at 609-599-1215.

Voting Time!

i Oct 20th No Comments by

Here are some wonderful documents to help you with voting this voting season!

https://www.drnj.org/pdf/VotingGuide-ENG-Rev2016-04-FINAL.pdf

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PCIL Broadcast – “Age Out Angels”!

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Lottery Placement for Housing Vouchers Announcement

i Jun 18th No Comments by

The Hunterdon County Division of Housing is holding a lottery for placement on the Hunterdon County Division of Housing’s Housing Choice Voucher waiting list.

Click here for PDFS:

01 Important Notice – English- 2018

02 Important Notice  Spanish  2018

02 Spanish Important Notice2018 01 Important Notice

 

Get Help Paying Rent or Utility Bills!

i May 23rd No Comments by

If you are facing eviction or having your power shut off contact 609-393-6480, assistance MAY be available.

 

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Free Tax Prep Help

i Feb 12th No Comments by

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Urgent: Save the ADA!

i Feb 7th No Comments by

House will vote NEXT WEEK on H.R.620

Thirty Years of Holding It Is Long Enough—
Why Disabled Americans Oppose H.R.620 (and You Should,Too)

The House of Representatives will vote the week of Feb. 12 on H.R.620. We need your help to stop it!

Big business is trying to bamboozle the House and the American public into an unnecessary law misleadingly titled the “ADA Education and Reform Act of 2017” (H.R.620) that would make it even harder for disabled Americans who have been “holding it,” waiting to use the same restrooms, shop at the same department stores, and eat at the same restaurants as our non-disabled friends and family members, for almost 30 years!

They say the law is needed to help local “mom and pop” shops, while behind the scenes, powerful trade associations for wealthy corporations—everything from multinational hotel chains to big box stores and corporate coffee shops—are pulling the strings in an effort to gain support for regressive rollbacks to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). This opens the door to not only dismantling the ADA, but other civil rights laws as well.

Please contact your House Representative (and others from your state) and encourage them to stay strong in their opposition to H.R.620 and any “notice and cure” bill, as a rollback of civil rights. SAVE THE ADA!

  • Go to Contacting Congress using your zip code to find out how to reach your House representative via e-mail, phone, Facebook, Twitter, fax, etc.
  • Call your Representative using the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121. They will help you find your Representative’s name, and switch you to their office. If you know your Representative’s name, you can use the House of Representatives phone list.

Sample Script:

“Hello, my name is [your name]. I’m a constituent from [your state], zip code [your zip code]. I am opposed to H.R. 620 and any change to the equal access protections of the Americans with Disabilities Act. I strongly encourage Representative [add last name] to oppose any reform efforts. Thank you.”

Reasons To Oppose H.R.620:

  • H.R. 620 would weaken the civil rights of people with disabilities, making it harder for us to use the same restrooms, shop at the same department stores, and eat at the same restaurants as our non-disabled friends, family members, and peers.
  • Disability rights are civil rights. The ADA is a civil rights law. H.R. 620 would not only rollback important parts of the ADA, it would pose risks for other civil rights laws as well (such as Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars public accommodations such as hotels, restaurants, and entertainment venues from discriminating based on race; Title III of the ADA was based on this law).
  • H.R. 620 would not solve the problems its supporters are claiming it would fix. It would not stop fraudulent lawsuits. State courts and state bar associations are already equipped to address those problems, in better ways, without denying anyone equal access, or their civil rights. They have been successfully shutting down those bad practices in many areas.

Three decades of holding it is long enough! Tell your Congressional Representative to OPPOSE H.R. 620.

For more information, see https://dredf.org/hr620/ or write info@dredf.org.

 

Original content found here: https://mailchi.mp/dredf/urgent-save-the-ada?e=e0fa39d88d