April 17th, 2023
The State Legislature recently approved funding to construct a new sound blocking wall for Luna Azul, a residential community for adults with disabilities. HOA president Win Charles and former Arizona Senator Paul Boyer join Ted to talk about this improvement for the community.
September 25th, 2020
My daughter Emma has some special needs. So when she tried out for her middle-school track team I was wary.
March 23rd, 2020
All Mark Roth wanted was to feel confident that his daughter Emma would be in good hands after he and his wife were gone. Emma, 21, suffers from a rare condition called Prader Willi Syndrome and needs care throughout her adult life.
January 5th, 2020
Luke Humble and Conor Gunderson have settled into a comfortable rhythm since moving into their own home in Phoenix three months ago. Humble, 26, says he likes eating breakfast with his best friend before they go their separate ways to work.
October 22nd, 2019
Anyone who has, or loves someone with, a disability understands the critical issue of loneliness. With a social life that is often structured, roommates pre-determined and minimum wage caregivers who come and go, there may be little opportunity for people with disabilities to find spontaneous and meaningful human interaction.
October 8th, 2019
By Jill Mapstead, mother of Leah, a Luna Azul resident.
September 26th, 2019
Some say Luna Azul is a bad idea because the homes there are too expensive for adults with disabilities. I disagree.
September 9th, 2019
Jon Krueger is Luna Azul's community assistant director -- though he suggests a better title would be full-time neighbor. After talking with him, you're convinced he's the one who'll be teaching the Macarena at the next neighborhood party -- even if he has to learn it first!
August 20th, 2019
As the nation’s first for-sale neighborhood created for people with disabilities, we’ve devoted a good bit of “air” to establishing what we are, who we serve and how we differ from other housing solutions.
July 31st, 2019
Like many, possibly most, maybe all parents of adult children with special needs, I would lie awake at night tormented over my daughter’s long-term living situation. Emma is nineteen and has a developmental disability.
July 26th, 2019
A housing development unlike any other in the nation has rooted itself in North Phoenix. Luna Azul is the first for-sale residential community in the country designed for adults with special needs.
June 21st, 2019
It’s a Tuesday morning in early May and the clubhouse at Luna Azul in north Phoenix looks less like a construction zone and more like a place to hang out. The week before, it was a different story.
June 20th, 2019
Having first conceived of Luna Azul some six years ago, it is enormously gratifying to now be meeting the residents and families who are also claiming this community as their own, and who will soon become friends and neighbors to my daughter. Indeed, building a community for Emma was my chief motivation -- not so much building a house.
May 29th, 2019
It's a surprise to many that Luna Azul, for all its focus on accommodating those with disabilities, provides no personal care for residents. Leaving it to resident families to choose and orchestrate what care is needed may seem at first an easy sidestep for a thorny issue.
On Tuesday, May 7, a surprisingly cool and damp day for the desert southwest, some 100 people headed to Luna Azul, for a first look at what we’ve promised. Parents arrived with their adult children or loved ones in mind or alongside to check out the cottages and clubhouse that together create the nation’s first for-sale community for adults with special needs.
May 7th, 2019
PHOENIX (FOX 10) - A gated community built for adults with special needs. Luna Azul is a neighborhood of 30 single family cottage-style homes for sale.
April 25th, 2019
Smart home technology, not so long ago the stuff of science fiction, is now no fiction at all. What was once waaaay off in the future, is present and accounted for, particularly in the homes at Luna Azul.
April 22nd, 2019
In what developers say is a first, an entire neighborhood of brand-new homes is set to hit the market that is specifically designed for adults with developmental disabilities. The development called Luna Azul is located in Phoenix.
April 18th, 2019
Luna Azul is the nation’s first for-sale community for adults with special needs offering residents and their families the peace of mind that comes with home ownership. Dominant themes among adults with disabilities are their desires for permanency, independence and self-determination, and to be able to choose where, how and with whom they live while receiving the services they need.
Luna Azul is America’s first for sale residential community for adults with disabilities. Located in North Phoenix, Arizona, Luna Azul is an intimate "pocket neighborhood" developed by Mark Roth of ECC Management, LLC.
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