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1 the keys to accessible housing

2  Key Themes from chapter  Future Prospects for policy, practice and research? April 2011 Unlocking disabled people's lives: the keys to accessible housing2

3  Housing inequalities and disabled people  The Independent Living Movement  Models of disability  Housing Policy and the needs of disabled people  Case study of Scottish Accessible Housing Register April 2011 Unlocking disabled people's lives: the keys to accessible housing3

4  One of most vulnerable groups within society  Aging populations with associated increase of acquired impairments;  Disabled people twice as likely to live in social-renting sector;  Benefits not always recognised as income for mortgages; April 2011 Unlocking disabled people's lives: the keys to accessible housing4

5  Construction of housing in inaccessible environments with inaccessible public transport links;  Estimated shortfall of 230,000 accessible properties across Scotland  Estimated 18-20 Million per year spent on adaptations;  Life Time Homes. April 2011 Unlocking disabled people's lives: the keys to accessible housing5

6  Historical location of disabled people;  UPIAS  Campaigns to live within local communities  Michael Oliver (1990) disability studies as an academic discipline April 2011 Unlocking disabled people's lives: the keys to accessible housing6

7  Medical model  Social model  Social relational model  Critical Realist April 2011 Unlocking disabled people's lives: the keys to accessible housing7

8  Parker Morris report (1963) bench standard for housing construction  Lack of enforcement of policies during 1970s-80s  Housing design standards; April 2011 Unlocking disabled people's lives: the keys to accessible housing8

9  Homeless etc (2003) Act and Scottish Housing Quality Standard (2015) examples of omitting needs of disabled people;  Disability Discrimination Acts (1995, 2006)  Equalities Act (2010) April 2011 Unlocking disabled people's lives: the keys to accessible housing9

10  Scottish Government’s Strategy and Action Plan for Housing 2011-2020 in “Homes Fit for the 21st Century”  National Scottish Accessible Housing Register aims are: ◦ to enable disabled people to access suitable adapted and accessible housing in Scotland; and, ◦ To deliver a housing system which will create opportunities for housing providers to record adapted / accessible housing? April 2011 Unlocking disabled people's lives: the keys to accessible housing10

11  Project undertaken by GCIL and Ownership Options in Scotland;  Based on expanding GCIL’s local Accessible Housing register;  Develop, promote and deliver an on-line housing system;  Disabled people can register their housing needs and housing providers can register available adapted or accessible properties; April 2011 Unlocking disabled people's lives: the keys to accessible housing11

12  Increase choice and geographical mobility for disabled people;  Resource of housing information and advice;  Envisaged data capturing of supply and demand across sectors. April 2011 Unlocking disabled people's lives: the keys to accessible housing12

13  Home2Fit  IT Systems  Operational Board  Launch April 2011 Unlocking disabled people's lives: the keys to accessible housing13

14  Highlighted housing inequalities experienced by disabled people;  Explored the different models of disability;  Illustrated application of the social model of disability;  Recent times progress towards equality and social inclusion;  Long way to go yet before the walls of exclusion come tumbling down. April 2011 Unlocking disabled people's lives: the keys to accessible housing14

15  PhD “To what extent do the governance structures in Scotland and Norway facilitate or impede disabled peoples’ access to independent living” April 2011 Unlocking disabled people's lives: the keys to accessible housing15

16 April 2011 Unlocking disabled people's lives: the keys to accessible housing16

17  Abberley, P., (1987) “The Concept of Oppression and the Development of a Social Theory Of Disability”. Disability Handicap and Society, Vol 2 no 1:5-19  Anderson, I. and Sim, D. (eds) (2011) Housing and Inequality. Coventry: Chartered Institute of Housing.  Barnes, C. and Geof, M., (1996) Exploring the divide: illness and disability, Leeds: Disability.  Barnes, C., (1996) “Theories of disability and the origins of the oppression of disabled people in Western society”, in L. Barton (Ed.), Disability and Society: Emerging Issues and Insights, Harlow: Addison Wesley Longman.  Barnes, C. Shakespeare, T. and Mercer, G., (1999) Exploring Disability. A Sociological Introduction, Oxford: Polity Press.  Barnes, C., & Mercer, G. (2005) “Disability, work, and welfare: challenging the social exclusion of disabled people”. Work Employment Society, 19, 527.  Bevan, M. (2002) Housing and disabled children: The art of the possible, (Bristol: Bristol University Press).  Bull, R., (1998) Housing Options for disabled People, London: Jessica Kingsley.  Cronin, C., De Greiff and Habermas, P. J. (1998) The Inclusion of the Other, USA: Polity Press.  Disability in Scotland – a Base line Study. (2001, June 1) University of Glasgow: Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Retrieved April 10, 2012, fromhttp://www.gla.ac.uk/centres/disabilityresearch/index.htmhttp://www.gla.ac.uk/centres/disabilityresearch/index.htm  Glasgow Centre for Inclusive Living. (n.d.) Home page for the Glasgow Centre for Inclusive Living. Retrieved April 10, 2012, from http://www.gcil.org.ukhttp://www.gcil.org.uk  Hemingway, L (2006) “A ‘Risky’ Business? A study of access to home ownership for disabled people” (Leeds: Centre for Disability Studies).  Hemingway, L. (2011) Disabled People and Housing: Choices, Opportunities and Barriers. Bristol: The Policy Press.  Hunt, J. (2001) “The Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation”, Retrieved April 10, 2012 from: www.labournet.net/other/0107/upias1.html www.labournet.net/other/0107/upias1.html  Imrie, R. (1996) Disability and the City. International Perspectives (London: Paul Chapman Publishing ltd).  Imrie, R., (2003) “Housing Quality and the Provision of Accessible Homes”, Housing Studies, Vol. 18, (3), 387- 408.  Imrie, R. (2004) “Disability, Embodiment and The Meaning of Home” (Housing Studies: Vol. 19, No (5), pp.745- 463).  Imrie, R. (2006) “Accessible Housing: quality, disability and design” (London: Routledge). April 2011 Unlocking disabled people's lives: the keys to accessible housing17

18  Joseph Rowntree Foundation (2000) Lifetime Homes. York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation.  Madigan, R. and Milner, J., (1999) “Access for all: housing design and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995”, Critical Social Policy, Vol. 19, (3), Issue No 60, 396-409.  Inclusion (2008) Inclusion Scotland [online]. Retrieved April 10, 2012 from: www.inclusion.scotland.orgwww.inclusion.scotland.org  Oldman, C. and Beresford, B., (August 2000) “Home, Sick Home: Using the Housing Experience of Disabled Children to Suggest a New Theoretical Framework”, Housing Studies, Vol. 15, (3), 429-442.  Oldman, C. and Beresford, B., (2002) Housing Matters: National evidence relating to disabled children and their housing, Bristol: The Policy Press.  Oliver, M., (1990) The Politics of Disablement, Basingstoke: MacMillan.  Oliver, M (1992) "Changing the Social Relations of Research Production", Disability, Handicap & Society. 7(2), 101-115  Oliver, M., and Barnes, C (1998) Disabled People and Social Policy: From Exclusion to Inclusion. London: Longman.  Parsons, T (1951)The Social System. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.  Reid Howie Associates (2007) Independent Living In Scotland: A Policy Scoping Study, (Scotland: Disability Rights Commission)  Single Equalities bill. (2010, January 16) Office of Public Sector Information. Retrieved April 10, 2012, from http://www.opsi.gov.uk/actshttp://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts  Thomas, C., (1999) Female Forms: Experience and Understanding Disability, Buckingham: Open University Press.  UPIAS (1976) “Fundamental Principles of Disability” (London: Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation).  Watson, N (2003) “Daily denials the routinisation of oppression and resistance” in Riddell, S. & Watson, N. (eds.) Disability, culture & identity. Harlow: Pearson Education. April 2011 Unlocking disabled people's lives: the keys to accessible housing18


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