The aspects of flat life that are galling to many residents — like flimsy walls and harsh fluorescent lighting — can be debilitating to the great unwashed living with autism . First Place — Phoenix , a new apartment complex in Arizona ’s capital city , is the first housing facility of its sort to take such factors into consideration and build a prosperous living environs specifically for adults with autism , AZ Centralreports .
Denise Resnik was revolutionise to found First Place after looking for a home where her son Matt , who has autism , could live independently as an adult . When she realized the plaza she was visualise did n’t be , she decided to bring it into the real humanity herself .
The four - storey , 81,000 - square - substructure edifice comprises 55 apartments and cost $ 15.4 million to unfold . Some feature , like sound barrier that obturate street traffic , special ignition , and a staff that ’s on call 24/7 , were put in home to supply to the needs and sensitiveness of the edifice ’s residents . Others , like the Arizona Cardinals - theme plot room and a communal kitchen on the first floor , are simply there to make First Place a fun place to live and build up a gumption of community of interests among residents . In the actual apartments , tenants have access to their own modern kitchen as well as " take hold of and go " Stations of the Cross where they can charge their speech sound and deposit their key in the same smear .
For $ 4000 a calendar month , occupier get their own apartment , utilities , access to the construction ’s stave , and classes atGateWay Community Collegefocused on transitioning them to main , grownup life . People wish well to waive the community college class can sign up for the same flat and amenities get going at $ 3300 a calendar month for a two - bedroom .
First Place is currently home to 32 adults , ramble in geezerhood from their former twenties to mid - forty . After monitor the project in Arizona , Resnik hopes to bring First Place complexes to different cities around the land .
[ h / tAZ Central ]
