Considering accessibility adds under 3% in total costs in new construction projects, while retrofitting older buildings costs far more. A breakdown of the real cost of accessibility for people with disabilities, and why planning ahead pays off.
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Having a toilet is not the same as being able to use it. This article explores multidimensional poverty and disability and shows how poverty indices can overlook real deprivation when they fail to measure accessibility.
Standard prevalence rates underestimate the true impact of disability. When linked, for example, to poverty or extra expenditures of living, its effects extend to entire households.