One-size-fits-all model of accessible housing ‘a disaster’ for Australians with disability

Grace Dlabik and her son, Elijah Armstrong, 19, who is quadriplegic and has cerebral palsy. Their current home is only just wide enough to allow Elijah to use his wheelchair. Photograph: Chris Hopkins/The Guardian

Elijah Armstrong’s wheelchair is 76cm wide. The doorways at the rental home he shares with his family are 78cm wide.

“Every time he goes through a door I think: ‘is he alright getting through the door? Can he make it?’” his mother, Grace Dlabik, says.