Nantes, France
Architecture
Florian Guillaume: “Sharing an ordinary city apartment turns out to be the most dignified support you can offer.”
A French social enterprise creating shared housing where young adults with and without intellectual disabilities live together in urban apartments. The model: pairs of housemates (one with disability, one without) in ordinary city-centre apartments, supported by a community of neighbours. Founded in Nantes, expanding across France. Funded partly by public housing bodies and partly by residents' rent. Shows that autonomy for people with disabilities is best built through ordinary life and the rig
Co-Being
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