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Inaccessible housing

This discussion was created from comments split from: Unsuitable housing for disabled person.
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Have you tried any of these?
Shelter
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Habinteg
Habinteg is a housing provider offering and promoting accessible, adaptable and affordable homes.
Ability Housing
Ability Housing Association is a Registered Provider (RP) that specialises in providing people with housing and support services that enable them to live more independent lives.
The Accessible Property Register
The Accessible Property Register specialises in promoting wheelchair accessible and adapted property, and wheelchair access holiday accommodation.
The House Shop
Find, buy, rent or sell accessible homes that have been built, adapted or modified for wheelchair users.
Home Ownership for People with Long-term Disabilities
HOLD is a route into shared ownership for disabled people.
Read more at https://www.scope.org.uk/support/disabled-people/independent-living/housing#M4xdPdQqE8wEEP1R.99
Senior online community officer
Hi @Maggie46
Have you explored if your current home can be adapted to give access into the toilet and kitchen? How is your partner getting up stairs? Is a through-floor lift needed to enable your partner to get to the upper floor in their wheelchair? These are the sort of adaptations that can often be funded with a Disabled Facilities Grant:
https://www.scope.org.uk/support/disabled-people/disabled-facilities-grant
If your current home is privately rented your landlord can refuse permission for adaptations. However, if you haven't recently had a local authority Occupational Therapist (OT) visit to do an assessment it would be wise to arrange for it to happen, as the OT report may support your need for urgent adaptations or rehousing.
Best Wishes
Jean
Jean Merrilees BSc MRCOT
You can read more of my posts at: https://community.scope.org.uk/categories/ask-an-occupational-therapist
My partner has to try and stand and hold on to the fence then I have to lift it up the stairs our son who is autistic has to help hold him then I have to lift the chair up the next set of stairs then try and get him up the stairs into the wheelchair he is waiting to see if he has to have his foot and leg amputated
Hi @maggie46
Thanks for clarifying.
I’m pleased to hear that your partner has already had an OT assessment. Although it must have been disappointing and frustrating to learn that your current home can’t be adapted and that the OT’s report hasn’t made you more of a housing priority.
If your partner’s level of disability does increase do ensure that you get the OT to assess again and write another report stressing that your current home is not safe or suitable for your partner.
In the meantime, it’s about ensuring that the Housing Officer realises the urgency of your family’s need to be rehoused. If, for example, lifting the wheelchair is causing you medical difficulties of your own do get a GP letter evidencing this. How would your partner get out the house if there was a fire? Has the local Fire Safety Officer assessed? If your partner would be in danger because he couldn’t get out of the property in the event of a fire submit the evidence to the Housing Officer. Basically, trying to make your case a higher priority than all the others that are competing for the same accommodation.
Hope you manage to move to a more suitable home soon,
Jean
Jean Merrilees BSc MRCOT
You can read more of my posts at: https://community.scope.org.uk/categories/ask-an-occupational-therapist