There is still work to be done inside the new three story apartment building at the corner of Randolph and South Main but the Executive Director of Middletown's Housing Authority, Bill Vasiliou, says the 16 apartments inside built specifically for the sensory impaired will be ready for a July opening.

Vasiliou says this is Connecticut's first public housing project for the hearing impaired and behind every dollar that went into it was a lot of thought.

Inside each apartment there are special windows to reduce glare because many people who are hearing impaired have extra sensitive eyesight. There are pager devices that contact police, vibrating alarms and doorbells, and extra security features.

There is already a waiting list for the complex. Applicants must be elderly or be sensory impaired which includes hearing or vision loss and there are income restriction because this is public housing.

By WFSB
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