Posts by Angela Hart
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Given that intensification has to happen, how much thought will go into making the new dwellings accessible? I mean, given that a lot more two and three storey residential buildings are going to go up, has anyone really thought about what that means for people who can't use stairs?
It is already quite difficult to find accommodation for a wheely in Auckland.
With a significant increase in multilevel dwellings comes the risk that wheelies will be able to access an even smaller proportion of residential dwellings, comprising apartments in high rise buildings with lifts and the small proportion of homes which don't have steps impeding access. Access issues are likely to affect every one of us at some time in our lives, and I can see intensification making the existing problems a whole lot worse if nothing is done about access.
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What can you say? The comments made by people at the consultation meeting I attended have not been ignored but neither have they been treated with the urgency or the respect they deserve. The second round of consultations looms but you do wonder if there's really any point.
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Hard News: DNC 2016: Beyond weird, most…, in reply to linger,
What, “President Putin, I say to you, build a wall”?
and make them pay for it!
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Access: Fighting seclusion with…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Submissions required to ratify Optional protocol for UN CRPD. Suggestion here
http://aucklanddisabilitylaw.org.nz/?page_id=257Thanks Hilary, this is really important and I wouldn't have known about the opportunity if you hadn't posted the link. We really need to talk about this and spread the word as widely as possible because people who are not disabled by accident in New Zealand don't have rights, in effect, and this must change. The more submissions, the louder our voice.
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The Good Faith Ministry- abandon hope all ye who enter in....on Faith shall ye rely- and we shall determine what Good Faith is.
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The assertion that the Ministry acted in good faith is hurtful and difficult if not impossible to reconcile with the history. I can only surmise that it is made for political reasons. Axing a 70 hour need assessment down to twenty-nine and a half hours on the basis of the difference between home and residential support is telling.
I find it disturbing that personal details of care and support required were not suppressed in this case as they were for Atkinson. -
Access: Disability as a wicked policy problem, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
To my mind this was criminal misrepresentation….as born out by the ridiculously low uptake of FFC.
Perjury?
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Speaker: Housing for the disabled is a…, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
As for IHC….they’re doing alright…
what happened between 2010 and 2011 to change IHC's income so significantly? Or is it a typo?
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It seems relevant to point out that the second round of consultations on the draft disability strategy starts soon, details here:
http://jointheconversation.nz/workshops/