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Two million disabled people without affordable housing

The access to housing, suitable ramps or lifts to facilitate the mobility of the disabled, are still pending in Spain. In 72.7% of households with people living with disabilities (about 2.4 million homes) there are barriers at the door or inside the building, according to the Olivenza Report 2010, prepared by the Centre Disability State Ministry of Health.

population radiography with disabilities, estimated at 4,056,993 people (9% of the population), is completed in this section with other information no less spectacular: 52% of this group, some 1,982,700 people, have difficulty functioning normally in your home or building.

Lack of accessibility is one of the biggest problems "hampering the development of life on an equal basis to persons with disabilities", the authors of the research, carried out other such that only 28.3% have paid employment or only 50% with the help of a caregiver, a family in 92% of cases. More than half also report difficulties in using transport public and to move through the streets of your city or neighborhood.

REFORM AMONG ALL RESIDENTS / Lack of accessibility is one of the workhorses of the English Committee of Representatives of Persons with Disabilities (CERMI), which is claiming that the modifications needed in homes with a disability for mandatory and borne by all residents. Posed to be reserved for these cases a mandatory 50% contingency fund.

Currently, if a disabled person requests an elevator need the majority consent of the neighbors and the works are only mandatory if the cost does not exceed the amount of three shares for each tenant community. According to the latest INE survey, more than 300,000 people have moved away from these problems. The claim Cermi years the reform of the horizontal property law so that communities have to pay for the work. But the government has been dragging their feet and included a platform considerations considered "vague" in the law of sustainable economy, which is currently pending in the Senate. UNIVERSAL ACCESS

/ Another proposal, subject to payment of the works, is proposed by Ecom, a federation of 160 organizations representing people with disabilities. "The design and construction of buildings should be of universal accessibility," explains María José Vázquez, Ecom president.

Cases Ecom serves and supports are experiences such as Joaquina Hidalgo and her husband, Francisco Rodriguez, who since 2002 is in a wheelchair due to a stroke. They live in a fifth floor in El Prat de Llobregat and his wife have to make real balancing act for him to fit in the elevator: it sits in a chair up close and freehand. In 2009 the residents decided to reform the elevator but not acceded to the request of Joaquina do the works to install a wider device with which her husband could go up and down by itself. "They said it was much expense and could not be done," recalls Joaquina. "Now it was him, but another day you will come to you, "he replied. ANTONIO M.

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A statement recognizing the right to receive aid retroactively Unit Law

The tenacity, persistence, almost obsessive criticism of Antonio Moreno receiving awards by the Supreme Court. A statement of the social hall last resort rejects the Institut Català d'Assistència i Serveis Socials (ICASS) of the Generalitat and Antonio Moreno will recognize the right to receive the aid to the Unit with retrospective effect from the adoption of law and not from the regulation gave the green light, five months later.

The order of the Supreme validates failure former High Court of Catalonia (TSJC) that last March and found in favor of Antonio Moreno in the lawsuit brought on behalf of his son Alexander Moreno Saludes, recognized with a level III unit, level 2, compared with the Generalitat. Unit law came into force on January 1, 2007 but it was not until five months later when they began to pay aid once adopted rules that set the scales of assessment. But Antonio Moreno called the delays in considering his problem was not lack of scales and also the law set a maximum period of three months for implementation.

His first claim to court social as Barcelona was dismissed, but later reversed the decision TSJC. The Government filed an appeal to the Supreme Court and lost. Now the sentence is final and opens the door for all the great dependents who requested the service in May 2007 to collect arrears by filing petitions for review with the Department of Welfare i Família, current name of the Department. Failure to perceive this simple administrative procedure could also bring an action before the courts. According to legal counsel Antonio Moreno, this claim should be made within two months and for that reason has and called on its partners to submit the application in the Department of Welfare. In any case, they recognize that this claim would be valid only for those who made the request in the period immediately following adoption of the rules, and that as much could be extended to two months, then it follows that he was delayed in its application more it did so voluntarily and is no longer entitled to such retroactive effect. More doubtful is whether the resolution will allow affected communities to act in the same direction. In fact, only in Navarre began to pay two months earlier. The problem is that these other communities have been complaints by the contentious-administrative and it is not clear that the jurisprudence of the social is automatically applicable.

"The important thing," says Antonio Moreno-not the amount received, which in my case is of 2,435 euros, corresponding to the amount of 477 euros a month for carers to provide the five months since the passage of the law , but a recognition that things were not right, and with that I am satisfied. " Josep

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Reding: 'The abuse of disabled people is a taboo in the EU, we must bring it to light'

European Commissioner for Justice, Rights and Citizenship, Viviane Reding, said that physical abuse of people with disabilities "A taboo" in the European Union, and called for involvement of the media to raise awareness and combat this problem.

Reding stressed the difficulty of eradicating the abuse of disabled persons in detention facilities and care, because such cases usually come to light at a conference organized by the European Disability Forum at the headquarters of the European Parliament in Brussels .

"The physical abuse for the disabled are taboo, and we can only remove them if we help the media," said curator and vice president of the EC when asked about this for a MEP.

Involvement media, and their willingness to pick up cases of abuse they have suffered as homes for the elderly in some European countries, "it is very important for people to react," said Reding.

At the conference, the Commissioner recalled the general lines of the European disability strategy for the next decade, by the Commission last November and was willing to "put pressure" on member states to apply their points main.

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Among other measures, the strategy should promote the market of goods and services specifically for disabled which would also improve the quality of life of these people "support the development of a new sector and job creation," said Reding.

Regarding the possibility of using Braille and sign language in all transactions of citizens with European institutions, one of the recommendations of the strategy, the Commissioner admitted that "there is still much work" to achieve " total accessibility. "

however, hoped that the next European elections "to be accessible to all persons with disabilities", and advised member states to introduce amendments to the electoral law to facilitate the voting blind or disabled. Making

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For its part, the president of the European Disability Forum, Yannis Vardakastanis, said the Commission's strategy, coupled with the recent EU ratification of the Convention of the United Nations (UN ) on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, constitute "a historic breakthrough." Vardakastanis

added that "now is implement them, that is, the hardest part" with a view to Europe to be "a place free of discrimination."

There are currently about 80 million people with disabilities in the EU, ie sixth of the European population, a number that is expected to increase in coming years due to aging populations.

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stations Arc de Triomf (L-1) and Selva de Mar (L-4) have recently been adapted. Source http://www.porcabarcelona.com/2010/11/mapa-del-metro-de-barcelona-para-carritos-de-bebes-minusvalidos-y-viajeros-con-maletas/

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architectural barriers exchangers of Barcelona Metro stations where two or more lines, delayed the full adjustment for the disabled underground and the elderly until 2014, although initially envisaged fully accessible by 2012.

Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) was marked the next two years to have a fully accessible network from the current 82%, pursuant to the Plan for Universal Accessibility.

President of the English Confederation of People with Physical and Organic (Cocemfe) in Catalonia, José Maria Ballesteros, seen as "nonsense" that the stations are adapted but not the corridors that connect them, as this prevents a person with reduced mobility to move around them as the others.

TMB Sources have said that all exchangers are adapted, except Espanya (L1 and 3), Plaça de Sants (L1 and 5), Urquinaona (L1 and 4), Clot (L1 and 2) Verdaguer (L4 and 5 ), Maragall (L4 and 5) and partially Passeig de Gracia (L2, 3 and 4).

Connections with other transport, and Renfe, are also pending and even begins to reverse.

works to adapt the connection between the Metro and train station Passeig de Gracia begin on 15 January with the installation of elevators to the street and the removal of steps in the corridors, so that in one year "shall be deleted entirely architectural barriers," the councilor has advanced Eixample, Ramon Nicolau.

These works have been slow to start to avoid work at many stations at once. Furthermore, adaptation is parked Urquinaona "not traffic collapse" until completion of the works on Passeig de Gracia, and which is now cut off by road works Provença AVE. Europa Press Barcelona