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Just listen to OP and other PPs, talking about converting first floor offices into bedrooms.

It's the real estate equivalent of "Let Them Eat Cake".

The majority of Americans cannot afford to build their own homes. They have to buy or rent already existing homes. And most of those are NOT accessible.

Shame on you. If you want this to change, push for legislation to make more new homes accessible.
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NP. You don’t seem to know what you’re talking about. I don’t know about the rest of the DMV, but in MoCo, my friend’s landlord was required to make the apartment in downtown Silver Spring accessible. This included modifications to the door, taking out the oven (because she couldn’t bend over from her chair to use it and the empty space helped her roll under cabinets they installed above the oven), and more. [/quote]

You're the clueless one. What about homes? Do you know how many affordable homes are accessible in this area? Practically none.

Middle aged people usually have school-aged children. They don't want to live in apartments. They want to live in SFH. Very, very few of those are accessible, or easily converted to accessible.

I've been looking for exactly this type of home, one that I can convert to have a bedroom and full bathroom on the main floor, with a main floor without steps, and outdoor entry without a long flight of external stairs... and it's really difficult.
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Same. We did think about this and looked and looked and it’s extremely hard to find in this area. We ended up in one with stairs on which I think we could install a chair lift if needed. We could have kept looking but our kids are getting bit and at some point you just need a house for now. I do wish they’d build more of this here but land is so expensive hard to build one level.[/quote]

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