WPTV has been working to find answers on the huge need for affordable housing in our area, and learned options for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities — or IDD — are even more challenging.
“For those who have these problems, and these challenges, and do not have a place to live, they become a ward of the state and either go into a state group home or a state institution,” said Jeffrey Bookstein, vice president of development with the Pulte Family Foundation.
The Pulte Family Foundation has partnered with the IDDeal Foundation to create a first-of-its-kind housing community specifically catered to adults with IDD.
It’s called the IDDeal Place and will be located north of Lantana Road, just east of the Turnpike.
“For these adults, this is going to be their community, their family, they help each other when someone needs help, when they need support, when they just need a hug, someone is going to be there for them,” said Bonnie Schmidt with the IDDeal Foundation, who also has two daughters with IDD.