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Wheelchair access and disabled rights gone ‘out the window’ due to COVID… outrageous?!
20 November 2020
Another example of how COVID-19 safety measures are having a huge impact on disabled people. • Disabled bays blocked for COVID-19 queues • No additional spaces made available • Restrictions and limited access for blue badge holders If you are a wheelchair user or struggle to walk any distance then in the good old ‘pre-covid’ days you used to be able to go to a store and park near the entrance – in fact this has been the case since 1970 when orange badges were first introduced as part of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970. You’d place your blue badge on the windscreen and happy days, you got the wide space needed to get your wheelchair out of the car or you managed to park close enough so you could walk to the shop. For a minute let us ignore the fact there are many people abusing the blue badge system and it’s easy to get one… Genuine blue badge holders need the space. If you are an independent wheelchair user who transfers to the drivers seat and puts their wheelchair across their lap and onto the passenger seat (which 1000’s of people do daily) then you […]
Dwellability
24 October 2020
Home Sharing for People with Disabilities, By People with Disabilities. Dwellability started as an idea between two friends with disabilities over a cup of coffee. Why did it have to be so hard to find a safe, appropriate place to live or visit? Who We Are We dreamed about creating a way to connect people across the full spectrum of disability because as a community, we know we are a powerful force, but society simply isn’t meeting our housing needs. So,we started working on Dwellability as a solution forconnecting people who need a home with those who have space to share. Pretty simple, right? We hope you will join our community and let us know what we can do to make the site do its absolute best foryou! Our Founders Dwellability is a passion project for Elizabeth Kenney and Jeff Hinz (partners in business and marriage), as Kenney has an invisible disability that affects her ability to travel and stay in hotels. Kenney is the creative soul behind Dwellability,given her textile design career and a recent graduate degree in social work from NYU.Hinz is the operations expert with 30 years of experience in advertising and startups. What We Do Dwellability […]
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