Plan to build 37 apartments for people with disabilities leads to backlash in N.J. town

For the last 45 years, the JESPY House has been serving adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities from its location in South Orange. But, the properties the nonprofit group owns in the Essex County village – three houses on Prospect Street and one on Milligan Place – are increasingly inaccessible for its aging clients, said Audrey Winkler, the organization’s executive director.

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