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An international effort to make all homes visitable!
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THE STARTING POINT
Whatever you call it...
accessible, universal
design, life-time homes, adaptable, visitable...
...this site is about
working together for basic access in ALL homes.
It's not about access to public buildings...or helping builders create "niche marketing" for disabled or older people...or how to build your own fully accessible house from A to Z (see the "Note" at the bottom of this page if that's what you need).
It's not about retrofitting existing homes for a person who's become disabled--important as that is.
It's about correcting current building practices, which have disabled people and their allies desperately seeking help to undo existing barriers--while a half-mile down the road a new development is going up constructing exactly those same barriers.
The word "visit-able" works well to express our goal because it rightly implies:
(1) A focus on homes, not government buildings, restaurants, etc...(which are already covered in the United States by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990)
(2) ALL homes-- not just "special" homes; being at the party, the meeting, the reunion--not isolation.
(3) Narrowing the emphasis from a long list of possible or desirable access features to the most essential features: entering a home and fitting through the interior doors. So that widespread construction change is more likely to happen quickly.
As a co-worker summarized: "Get in and pee."
Invitation/Copyright: You are invited to and encouraged to photocopy and distribute the information on this website. (Please give credit to Concrete Change.) However, it is not okay to lift content from this site to another website. Nor is it permissible to use material from this website in materials for which money is charged, without explicit permission from the Concrete Change Atlanta office. © 1998
Disclaimer: In the graphics and text of this site, Concrete Change has made every reasonable effort to provide accurate information, but does not warrant, and assumes no liability for, this site's accuracy or completeness, nor its fitness for any particular purpose.
Thanks: Many thanks to Sheena Lawrence and Cheryl Brissey who set up this site in 1998 as a labor of love for the disability liberation movement.
Note: Building your own custom home, or renovating an existing one? If instead of a campaign "every new home visitable", you are looking for detailed product descriptions, extensive ways to apply universal design, or advice to help construct or remodel a specific home for yourself or another disabled occupant, see the Practical Guide to Universal Home Design, http://www.uiowa.edu/infotech/universalhomedesign.htm.
For additional Visitability information, see the IDEA Center at http://www.ap.buffalo.edu/~idea/ and Visitability PA at http://www.visitabilitypa.com.
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