This Is What Being Disabled And On The Housing Register Looks Like

Same Difference

A mother with leukaemia. A five-year old daughter so disabled she can’t even throw an arm around the shoulders of someone carrying her up the stairs to her flat. Over two years on the housing register and no chance of even being shortlisted for a property.

This is the reality of being disabled and living in housing completely inadequate for your needs.

Our family rents privately; the top-floor flat in a house that we moved to because it was easier to care for May there than carry her up the four-floors up we previously lived in.

There was no disabled housing when we needed to move. Landlords aren’t keen to make expensive and unmarketable adjustments to their properties that would make them accessible to us. We need things like a hoist to lift our daughter into the bath. We need a ramp into the house. A stairlift if there is more…

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