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I'm in a wheelchair - I wonder if you can still build in accessibility while constrained to tiny apartments.

• Symbiote 11y ago
  Of course. There won't be any internal stairs, and you may well prefer to take a ground floor apartment. If it's a new building, it's more likely to have wider doors and a completely level floor. If the housing is reasonably dense, there should be useful shops close by. (In the UK, two friends of mine get an allowance from the state for their disabilities — one uses a wheelchair, the other is blind. It might be £56/week, I'm not sure, but it is paid even though they both have good jobs. Part of the purpose is so they can afford to live a little closer to a station, or in a larger apartment, or whatever.)
• jacquesm 11y ago
  The ground floor could be reserved for wheelchair bound people. I'm surprised that isn't more or less a rule anyway, it seems to make perfect sense. In NL elevators are pretty rare in the inner cities so we have these things called staircase elevators, little platforms that you can roll onto with a wheelchair which will then take just about forever to go up one floor.
  • voltagex_ 11y ago
    The problem with this is that there are often more disabled people in an area than there are ground floor units. I absolutely loathe staircase elevators although in 2015 they proved more reliable than the standard elevators I had to use.