accessible housing

Housing

Ellen Clifford speaking into a microphone, watched by three other panel members

August 16, 2018 0

Concerns over green paper’s ‘chilling’ failure to address accessible housing crisis

The government has been criticised by disabled campaigners and the equality watchdog after its new social housing green paper failed to include a single mention of the accessible housing crisis. Only three months ago, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) warned that more than 350,000 disabled people in England had unmet housing needs,

Housing

Front entrance of civil centre of Ashford Borough Council

July 19, 2018 0

Council’s disabled facilities grant investment leads to ‘unprecedented’ improvements

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A local authority says it has achieved an “unprecedented” improvement in waiting-times for disabled people seeking grants to make their homes accessible. Ashford Borough Council in Kent decided last October to invest an extra £200,000 capital funding in the disabled facilities grant (DFG) scheme, and part-funded an occupational therapist to work in the borough

Independent Living

June 14, 2018 0

Young woman evicted from care home while critically ill in hospital

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A young disabled woman was told that she had been evicted from her residential home while she lay critically ill in hospital. The care home in Barking, east London, run by the company Sahara Care, had originally issued the eviction notice to Lakhvinder Kaur (pictured) in a letter on 6 April, just days after

Housing

May 17, 2018 0

Disabled people face ‘hidden crisis’ in accessible housing

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Disabled people have been left “demoralised and frustrated” by the housing system and face a “chronic shortage” of accessible homes, according to a new report by the equality and human rights watchdog. More than 350,000 disabled people in England have unmet housing needs, with one-third of those in rented accommodation living in unsuitable properties,

Housing

Zara Todd giving evidence to the committee

March 22, 2018 0

Government rejects nearly all recommendations from MPs’ access inquiry

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The government has accepted just three of 23 recommendations made by a committee of MPs that were aimed at improving disabled people’s access to the built environment. The women and equalities committee concluded in its report last April that disabled people were too often finding their lives “needlessly restricted by features of the built

Housing

A sign pointing to Parliament Street and Whitehall

March 22, 2018 0

Eight years on, government announces plans to bring in access laws for tenants

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The government has finally agreed to bring into force long-awaited laws that will impose a duty on landlords to allow disabled tenants to make access improvements to the hallways, staircases and entrances of residential properties. The measures were part of Labour’s Equality Act 2010, which became law just before the 2010 general election, but

Politics

May 25, 2017 0

Election 2017: Conservatives promise more emphasis on accessible housing

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The Conservative party has promised to force local authorities to plan for the provision of accessible housing for disabled and older people, if it retains power in next month’s general election. The party also announced that employers who recruit disabled people – and employees from other groups, such as care-leavers – would be given

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Jonathan Bartley and Caroline Lucas, both smiling

May 25, 2017 0

Election 2017: Greens call for inclusive education, and accessible homes and transport

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The Green party has called in its general election manifesto for moves towards an inclusive education system, as well as pledging universal free social care, significantly more accessible homes and a fully accessible transport system. The manifesto proposes moves towards a universal basic income, a benefit system in which everyone in the country –

Housing

December 15, 2016

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Watchdog’s inquiry into accessible housing shortage ‘must also look at affordability’

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An inquiry launched by the equality and human rights watchdog into the “chronic lack” of accessible housing has been welcomed by campaigners, but they warned that it must also look at whether such housing is affordable for disabled people. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) inquiry will look at the impact of the

Housing

October 27, 2016

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MPs hear of affordable, accessible housing drought and ‘decimation’ of access groups

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MPs have heard evidence from two leading disabled campaigners about the shortage of affordable, accessible housing across the country. Zara Todd, chair of Inclusion London, and Sue Bott, deputy chief executive of Disability Rights UK (DR UK), were giving evidence to the women and equalities committee for its inquiry into disability and the built

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