Guides to visitability

Information on visitability is currently available in print and on the web. In January 2000, HUD’s Office of Public Housing Investments produced publication, “Strategies for Providing Accessibility & Visitability for HOPE VI and Mixed Finance Homeownership.” The 18-page document, prepared by Urban Design Associates of Pittsburgh, includes plans and elevations for incorporating visitability into single-story houses, two-story houses, and condominiums or coops featuring first-floor accessible flats. An illustrated paper, “Visit-Ability: An Approach to Universal Design in Housing,” has been produced by Steven Truesdale and Edward Steinfeld at the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Universal Design at Buffalo. It can be downloaded from the Center’s web site, www.ap.buffalo.edu/rercud.