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By creating two new housing opportunities in D.C., Best Buddies is fostering more than friendships between people with and without disabilities<\/span><\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”172421″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]Mae Moskin is about to tell me about a conflict she had with her roommate.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what I expect the 26-year-old law school student to say, but I find myself hoping to hear something enlightening, something about how two very different people learned to traverse newly created ground. Moskin is, after all, participating in an innovative housing program in which people with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities share apartments.<\/p>\n

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