FERRIDAY &045; People with disabilities will soon have another affordable housing option in the Miss-Lou.

The Macon Ridge Community Development Corp. is planning to build 14- to 16-unit complex for disabled people.

The complex will be built behind the former ice house in Ferriday, within walking distance from MRCDC’s complex for the elderly on Ohio Avenue.

Because MRCDC is just now applying for $1 million from the U.S. Housing and Urban Development to develop the project, it doesn’t yet know when the project will be completed.

&uot;We’re hoping in the next two to three years,&uot; Program Developer Margie Walker said.

Disabled people ages 18 and older could apply for the units. While a rent scale hasn’t yet been set, it will be based on household income, Walker said.

In Concordia Parish, 52 percent of people ages 65 and older and 35 percent of those 21 to 64 have physical disabilities, according to figures from MRCDC.

&uot;There’s a great need for something like this,&uot; Walker said.

The one-bedroom units will have kitchens and bathrooms, and the complex will share a courtyard.

Currently, the organization operates an apartment complex for the elderly on Ohio Avenue and another apartment complex on Lincoln Avenue in addition to more than 40 single-family houses for low-income families.