TY  - JOUR
AB  - Wheelchair users face particular design and accessibility barriers, both in and around the home and in the wider environment. The majority of homes in England (84%) do not allow someone using a wheelchair to get to and through the front door without difficulty, and only 0.5% of homes are reported to be ‘accessible and adaptable’. Habinteg Housing Association and London South Bank University have undertaken secondary research that presents national and regional estimates of housing need among wheelchair users in England and shows how these figures can be used to produce similar estimates at local authority level. There are three solutions to under‐provision, which should be strategically interlinked: development of new wheelchair standard homes (of all sizes) for both owner‐occupiers and tenants, support for home adaptations across tenures, and more efficient allocation, within social housing, of existing accessible and adaptable homes. This article refers to some of the key issues, results, conclusions and recommendations of the main research report.
VL  - 13
IS  - 2
SN  - 1460-8790
DO  - 10.5042/hcs.2010.0480
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5042/hcs.2010.0480
AU  - Joseph Glen
AU  - Perry Alex
AU  - Watson Lynn
AU  - Vickery Lynn
PY  - 2010
Y1  - 2010/01/01
TI  - Mind the step: an estimation of housing need among wheelchair users in England ‐ a summary
T2  - Housing, Care and Support
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 20
EP  - 25
Y2  - 2024/04/23
ER  -