Matt's Place to open a smart house for family of ALS patient

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Tue., May 23, 2023

The second home built by the Matt's Place Foundation features a sleek modern design and is in North Spokane, shown Monday, May 22, 2023. The home is designed for an ALS patient, the first of whom will move in within a few months and live there until they no longer need the house, then it will be shared with another patient and family. The home is built with cross-laminated timber framing. The interior is equipped to be controlled by a disabled resident using adaptive technology for lights, utilities and security.

Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Revi
The second home built by the Matt's Place Foundation features a sleek modern design and is in north Spokane and shown Monday, May 22, 2023. The home is designed for an ALS patient who will move in within a few months and live there until they no longer need the house, then it will be shared with another patient and family. The home is built with cross-laminated timber framing. The interior is equipped to be controlled by a disabled resident using adaptive technology for lights, utilities and security.

Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Revi
Theresa Whitlock-Wild, co-founder of the nonprofit Matt's Place Foundation, stands in the main living area of the group's first home in Spokane and describes the upheaval a family goes through when a loved one is diagnosed with ALS on Monday, May 22, 2023. The home is designed for an ALS patient who will move in within a few months and live there until they no longer need the house, then it will be shared with another patient and family. The airy structure is built from cross-laminated timber beams. Whitlock-Wild is married to an ALS patient. The nonprofit has already built a home in Coeur d'Alene and now one in Spokane as places where an ALS patient and family can stay rent-free.

Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Revi
Theresa Whitlock-Wild, co-founder of the nonprofit Matt's Place Foundation, walks through the combination bedroom-bathroom area of the group's first home in Spokane Monday, May 22, 2023. The home is designed for an ALS patient who will move in in a few months and live there until they no longer need the house, then it will be shared with another patient and family. The airy structure is built from cross-laminated timber beams. Whitlock-Wild is married to an ALS patient. The nonprofit has already built a home in Coeur d'Alene and now one in Spokane as places where an ALS patient and family can stay rent-free.

Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Revi
Theresa Whitlock-Wild, founder of the nonprofit Matt's Place Foundation, stands in the combination bedroom and bathroom space on the ground floor of the group's first home in Spokane Monday, May 22, 2023. The home is designed for an ALS patient, the first of whom will move in within a few months and live there until they no longer need the house, then it will be shared with another patient and family. Whitlock-Wild is married to an ALS patient Matt Wild. The nonprofit first built a home in Coeur d'Alene for ALS families and now one in Spokane so they can live with adaptive technology rent-free.

Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Revi
Theresa Whitlock-Wild, co-founder of the nonprofit Matt’s Place Foundation, stands in the main living area of the group’s first home in Spokane on Monday. The home is designed for an ALS patient, the first of whom will move in within a few months and live there until they no longer need the house. Then it will be shared with another patient and family. Whitlock-Wild is married to ALS patient Matt Wild. The nonprofit has built a home in Coeur d’Alene and now one in Spokane as a place where an ALS patient and family can live rent-free.

Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Revi
The first home built in Spokane by the Matt's Place Foundation features a large bedroom and open bathroom space on the ground floor Monday, May 22, 2023. The home is designed for an ALS patient, the first of whom will move in within a few months and live there until they no longer need the house, then it will be shared with another patient and family. The home is built with cross-laminated timber frames.

Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Revi