DePaul Rochester View Apartments was designed and developed to meet the needs of the deaf and hard of hearing community. The 61-unit development is in Henrietta, N.Y., near Rochester, which has one of the largest and youngest deaf populations in the nation. There’s an estimated 42,000 to 50,000 people who are deaf or hard of hearing living among the metropolitan area’s 1.1 million residents. The Rochester School for the Deaf, the Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, and the National Center for Deaf Health Research are all located in the area.