00:02Bernadette Scalora's front door doesn't have a welcome mat. Instead, it has a ramp.
00:09The 52-year-old who has a disability says it's essential.
00:13Anything outside of that immediately makes a home inaccessible for me personally.
00:17She's lived in six rentals in three decades.
00:21Those rentals have sometimes been really difficult to come across.
00:24The rental and the housing crisis is affecting everybody but it doesn't affect everybody equally.
00:32It has been really challenging for people with disability.
00:35The disability community has partnered with the real estate sector to launch a campaign to improve those options.
00:43Over many, many decades we've been hearing from people with disability about the challenges that they experience in the private
00:50rental market
00:52relating to getting modifications.
00:55We feel that as a peak body it's our role to be able to convey some of those learnings.
01:00More than 480 Queenslanders with a disability were surveyed last year.
01:05About one in three reporting they didn't live in a home that met their needs.
01:09With one of the main challenges being the lack of modifications.
01:13It's important that tenants understand that they are allowed to make a request for a modification to a property.
01:19Miss Galora's message to property owners.
01:22We're likely to be very good, reliable and often long term tenants.
01:28Because we don't want to leave something behind that we have found that can work for us.
01:34We have a way to move ourselves.
01:37That they can be able to make a choice for us to make a choice for us.
01:40Thank you very much.
01:40Thank you very much.
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