Category Archives: Information and Resources
From the hospital to the shelter and back again: Homeless B.C. seniors caught in heartbreaking shuffle; 2019
Accessible Housing Network
Disability-Forward Policy Recommendations To Advance Accessible and Affordable Housing for All; American Progress, 2021
Living with Disability in Inaccessible Housing: Social, Health and Economic Impacts; University of Melbourne, 2020
Greater mobility impairments increased the probability of falls, pain and poor self-rated health although this effect was significantly moderated by external housing modifications. Among older adults with severe mobility impairments, external housing modifications reduced the probability of falls by 3% (1%-6%), pain by 6% (4%-8%), and poor health by 4% (2%-5%). Moreover, external housing modifications reduced the probability of no social activities by 6% (5%-7%) and moving home by 4% (2%-5%) even among those without any mobility impairments. Internal housing modifications had similar, but less consistent effects on the disability outcomes.”
Disability Considerations for Measuring Poverty in Canada Using the Market Basket Measure; 2022
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-022-02900-1?utm_source=pocket_mylist
“…inaccessible housing severely harms the dignity, freedom, social inclusion, economic productivity, health and wellbeing of people with mobility restrictions; and, that housing built to accessible standard can deliver substantial benefits for people with mobility restrictions, across all these life domains. These findings have both economic and social justice implications, which, as argued by Dalton and Carter (2020), are closely interconnected.”
Report from Inclusion Canada to UN, 2017
“People with disabilities in Canada are disproportionately homeless, living in poverty, subject to drastically restricted housing choices, subject to housing discrimination and likely to live in substandard housing. This is especially the case for Indigenous persons with disabilities.”
Canadian Human Rights Commission
https://www.housingchrc.ca/en/how-we-help/how-we-
“Housing as a human right is an important precondition for several other human rights, including the rights to life, work, health, social security, vote, and education. Everyone should be able to access housing that meets their needs without discrimination or harassment.’
Accessible Housing Pledge 