Poll, 29 Nov 2011: How much does the sector do to secure housing for disabled tenants?

With an estimated 78,000 wheelchair users in need of accessible homes, why is the allocations process failing disabled tenants?

He has spoken generally about the need to protect poor, disabled, elderly and middle-class tenants.

But he said he was voting for the motion to prevent elderly and disabled tenants from having to worry about their rents.

Ms. Puente's downtown boarding house was home to alcoholic, disabled and infirm elderly tenants.

Her case prompted a change in state law, requiring that landlords give elderly and disabled tenants a year's notice before eviction.

That is the case in Connecticut, for example, with the exception only of disabled and elderly tenants living in buildings of five or more units.

(A small number of apartments were set aside for disabled tenants.)

For example, elderly or disabled tenants may be unable to move, and families risk disrupting children's educations by moving in the middle of a school year.

Pots of paint: landlords may now have a greater responsibility to decorate disabled tenants' homes.