For Patch Hickey, finding a place to live and create in Austin wasn’t a given.
The landscape painter, who has a traumatic brain injury and borderline personality disorder, moved to the city in May. He now lives at Live Make Apartments, a new East Austin housing complex designed for low-income and disabled artists.
“This place offers peer support, nearby people to help me operate and figure things out that my brain just can’t do on its own,” Hickey said…