NZ should look at Australia's disability housing standards - advocate

New Zealand should be looking across the ditch for disability housing standards according to one advocacy service. Advocacy group Disability Connect describes the accesible housing situation in Aotearoa as dire - with only 2 percent of homes built to a standard where a wheelchair user could visit. It said rather than leaving it to the market New Zealand needs to adopt a more disability inclusive building code like Australia's. Michael Bleasdale is the former Executive officer of the advocacy group Rights and Inclusion Australia - a group that campaigned for universal housing design and he still works in the area of housing. Michael Bleasdale spoke to Lisa Owen.