Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I thank the Member for that question. I think it’s an excellent question to be posed. From a public policy perspective what I’d like to do is just comment on where I think the Housing Corporation is going as it relates to the need for disabled units.
The Member has indicated that perhaps everyone who requires more accessible types of design may not require a fully accessible unit, and I would agree. I think one of the solutions to that is looking
at visitable design. That’s something the Housing Corporation has been looking at over the past year or so.
When I’m talking about visitable design, I’m talking about a design that looks at such things as levered door handles, wider doorways and so on. It’s not a fully accessible unit, but it’s a unit that can be looked at from the perspective of features that are more visitable in nature. It’s a concept that’s been utilized in other jurisdictions, and it’s gaining in popularity. It’s also something that’s not nearly as expensive as fully accessible units. So I would say that visitable design is an area we’re looking at right now in terms of all of our units, as opposed to just looking at units for the disabled only. We’re taking a more visitable-design approach.