Can Policy to Address Some Disability Rights Mitigate Weak Approaches to Others?

Abstract

Governments prioritize some rights over others because of policy constraints. We ask whether differential disability policy priorities can readdress other unrealized rights when applied to services for people with disabilities in boarding houses in Australia. The housing is inappropriate to their support needs and breaches their immediate right to unsegregated housing. Findings about the government-funded support showed that their well-being improved, but the housing increased their support needs and reduced their eligibility for suitable housing, implying that support policies that prioritize progressive realization rights are not successful where immediate realization rights to housing remain unaddressed. These findings about the negative social outcomes from ignoring human rights hierarchies have implications for policy priorities.

Disability Identity: Perspective for Policy Formulation

“…Furthermore, PWDs empowerment in structural approach usually addressed by the implementation of multiple programs and policies to solve issues from marginalized Disability Identity: Perspective for Policy Formulation | 37 communities (Datta and Singh, 2018). Furthermore, these methods of affirmative policies are often criticized since they could perpetuate the discrimination cycle (Velazquez, 2012) and are unable to solve societal problems which are the main roots of unfairness experienced by minority group (Fisher et al, 2013). Affirmative policies also might lower people supports for policies for a minority group (Rose, 2019), where lower supports might place PWDs as the first group to receive impacts from social disappointments.…”

Disability Identity

“…Furthermore, PWDs empowerment in structural approach usually addressed by the implementation of multiple programs and policies to solve issues from marginalized Disability Identity: Perspective for Policy Formulation | 37 communities (Datta and Singh, 2018). Furthermore, these methods of affirmative policies are often criticized since they could perpetuate the discrimination cycle (Velazquez, 2012) and are unable to solve societal problems which are the main roots of unfairness experienced by minority group (Fisher et al, 2013). Affirmative policies also might lower people supports for policies for a minority group (Rose, 2019), where lower supports might place PWDs as the first group to receive impacts from social disappointments.…”