Disability bill disappoints

By ignoring disability housing registers and failing to set a target for building new accessible houses, the bill offers nothing to the thousands of disabled people living in inappropriate housing.

Research by John Grooms reveals that disabled people wait a disproportionately long time for suitable housing because there is insufficient commitment to their needs, resulting in a shortfall of more than 300,000 wheelchair-standard homes in the UK.

For too long the housing needs of disabled people have been low on the political agenda and, as a result, we have a housing crisis. The time has come for those in authority to address the housing needs of disabled people. We will continue to call for registers to be implemented and 10% of all new social houses to be built to wheelchair standard.

David Harmer, chief executive John Grooms Housing Association