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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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