Hanif asks about current disability caseload and trends
Hanif asks about CCHR's current disability caseload and trends. Kamuf Ward says she does not have total pending disability cases, and Rivera says the main trends are physically inaccessible housing and public accommodations and remote work requests in employment.
What is CCHR's current caseload on disability-related issues?
concerns.
I don't have the total number of disability cases that are pending.
I think we have, you know, how many are filed per year, but we'd have to go back and kind of run a more specific report to have how many cases that are before us involve disability.
And then are you all tracking the...
Trends in areas, so elevator being one of them, the example around students with disabilities and school buses, like is that, do cases like that also come to your table?
What trends in issues are you all noticing?
Absolutely.
You talked about housing discrimination.
Absolutely.
Yes.
Particularly in the housing context, and I would even say public accommodation space, the trend is physically inaccessible spaces predominantly.
In the employment context, what we're seeing, especially since COVID back to work orders, individuals really relying on remote work as a reasonable accommodation option.
And so we're seeing definitely an increase in those as well.