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Q: Last June, HUD drafted a compliance agreement limiting the number of units set aside for deaf residents, which seems to have only stoked the dispute. State officials said the agency at one point threatened to withhold money from the state if it did not continue with the plan. But the state housing director, Michael Trailor, did not back down, saying he had to “stand up for the rights of disabled people.” 
  
 Advocates for the disabled fear that the finding might complicate other projects in which federal money would be used to build housing for adults with special needs. Already, the Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center, based in Phoenix, has scrapped plans to use federal grants to help pay for a development designed for autistic adults, opting instead to pursue private financing. 
  
 Through combative legal correspondence and in emotional meetings, the parties in the Tempe project, working to negotiate a compromise, have argued over the meaning of the federal statute governing fair housing practices and the word “discrimination” as it applies to the deaf. 
  
 John Trasviña, HUD’s assistant secretary for fair housing and equal opportunity, said in a statement that “federal law prohibits facilities that receive HUD funds from providing separate or different housing for one group of individuals with disabilities because this practice denies or limits access to housing for other individuals based on the types of disabilities they have.” (The agency did not make Mr. Trasviña or other officials available for on-the-record interviews.) 
  
 In interviews, Mr. Trailor and the developer, Erich Schwenker of Cardinal Capital Management, which is based in Milwaukee, said the units were advertised in publications that focused on the deaf population, but also in the state’s largest newspaper and in a local magazine. 
  
 “Our intention has never been to exclude, but to make sure the units are utilized to the fullest extent possible, as the law requires,” Mr. Schwenker said. 
  
 The demands from HUD mobilized advocacy groups across the country. Last week, 75 of them signed a letter from the National Association of the Deaf to the federal housing secretary, Shaun Donovan, accusing HUD of “forcing deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals to only live according to an ideological vision of forced integration.” 
  
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 In an interview, the association’s chief executive officer, Howard Rosenblum, said the approach “ignores the unique communication needs” of the deaf, making them more isolated. Denise Resnik, a co-founder of the Southwest autism center, said the agency’s attitude felt “like reverse discrimination.” 
  
 By Friday, HUD had scaled back its efforts. A spokesman said the agency had decided to “take a pause” in the negotiations to give the state and the developer time to submit evidence demonstrating the housing needs of the deaf population to justify the use of federal money in the project. 
  
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 Jeff Rosen, the chairman of the National Council on Disability, which advises the federal government on disability policy, said these types of discussions could help the government better understand the challenges faced by groups of disabled people like the deaf, who do not often have the opportunity to live in a community that they feel is “appropriate and fit for them.” (The council has not taken an official position on the Apache ASL Trails case.) 
  
 “Our understanding of discrimination and disability policies is evolving,” Mr. Rosen, who is deaf, said through a sign-language interpreter. 
  
 “In the past, our interest was really more focused on providing basic access to opportunities,” he said. “Now, we’re having a more involved conversation that includes living the way we choose. That’s the type of evolution we’re talking about, and it is not unique to deaf people.” 
  
 A report by the National Fair Housing Alliance last year ranked disability as by far the main source of housing discrimination complaints received by HUD, representing 54.9 percent of them in 2011. 
  
 There have been no formal complaints filed against Apache ASL Trails, federal officials acknowledged. The agency learned of the potential irregularities during an audit last year of Arizona’s use of HOME grants, which are given to state and local governments to create affordable housing for low-income families. It is the state’s responsibility to ensure that the grants comply with federal law. 
  
 Agency officials said that other housing developments offering accommodations for the deaf had been partly paid for with HUD grants, but gave no overwhelming preference to deaf tenants or did not exclude other groups in their advertising. 
  
 Tanya Towers in Manhattan is the only complex among the handful of examples given by HUD that currently houses only deaf and hard-of-hearing people, although others can apply, federal officials said. 
  
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 Mr. Trasviña said no one living at Apache ASL Trails would be displaced. The compliance agreement with HUD would limit the number of units set aside for tenants who are hearing-impaired or in wheelchairs to roughly 19, or 25 percent of its 75 units. 
  
 The dispute over the agreement has consumed many hours for lawyers on both sides. Mr. Schwenker, the developer, said the agency cobbled together sections of a Web site for a group of hearing-impaired senior citizens to justify its claim that marketing for the units was exclusionary. Agency officials did not disclose which promotional materials they specifically took issue with, citing the continuing negotiations. 
  
 Apache ASL Trails was built near the light-rail line that links Tempe to Phoenix and Mesa. Its resident manager, Linda Russell, is deaf; through an interpreter, she said she communicated with residents who do not know sign language through notes scribbled on paper or on the white board she keeps in her office. 
  
 A nonprofit organization offering sign-language interpretation and other services has an office in the complex. Weekly workshops — both spoken and with simultaneous sign-language translation — are held in its lobby. 
  
 “A lot of the people who live here, we share common language; we’re able to socialize,” Mary Susan Case, 72, who was born deaf to a hearing family, said through an interpreter. “I’m not lonely anymore.” ||||| The project, named Apache ASL Trails in a reference to American Sign Language, now finds itself in an unlikely spot, facing charges of discrimination for favoring deaf and hard-of-hearing people over others, disabled or not. The federal agency released its finding in January after examining marketing materials and the project’s criteria for tenant selection, even though the developer assured it that the documents in question had been misinterpreted or were outdated. 
  
 Last June, HUD drafted a compliance agreement limiting the number of units set aside for deaf residents, which seems to have only stoked the dispute. State officials said the agency at one point threatened to withhold money from the state if it did not continue with the plan. But the state housing director, Michael Trailor, did not back down, saying he had to “stand up for the rights of disabled people.” 
  
 Advocates for the disabled fear that the finding might complicate other projects in which federal money would be used to build housing for adults with special needs. Already, the Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center, based in Phoenix, has scrapped plans to use federal grants to help pay for a development designed for autistic adults, opting instead to pursue private financing. 
  
 Through combative legal correspondence and in emotional meetings, the parties in the Tempe project, working to negotiate a compromise, have argued over the meaning of the federal statute governing fair housing practices and the word “discrimination” as it applies to the deaf. 
  
 John Trasviña, HUD’s assistant secretary for fair housing and equal opportunity, said in a statement that “federal law prohibits facilities that receive HUD funds from providing separate or different housing for one group of individuals with disabilities because this practice denies or limits access to housing for other individuals based on the types of disabilities they have.” (The agency did not make Mr. Trasviña or other officials available for on-the-record interviews.) |||||
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Packed with state-of-the-art equipment focused on the needs of the deaf, a new Arizona housing facility was seen as a step forward for the Southwest. Instead, it's become a lightning rod, reports the New York Times, as federal and state officials feud over alleged discrimination at the complex. As it stands, people with hearing difficulties live in 69 of Apache ASL Trails' 75 apartments. The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, however, wants to limit units specifically for the deaf to 25% of the facility—some 19 units. Arizona used federal money to fund the development. But "federal law prohibits facilities that receive HUD funds from providing separate ... housing for one group of individuals with disabilities," says a department official, because it may cut availability for others "based on the types of disabilities they have." But, says the complex's developer, "our intention has never been to exclude, but to make sure the units are utilized to the fullest extent possible." The conflict may already be having repercussions outside the facility: an autism center in Phoenix has chosen to go private for its funding. Click for the full piece.