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Maker_of_Things
Alfred Chow - Maker of Things @Maker_of_Things@cupoftea.social · Sep 25, 2024
A brief intro. If you want to follow this account, please have a chat with me so I know you are not a bot or harmful. Thank you. I am a #Maker. My background was in #Mechanical, #Electrical, #Engineering, #SocialHousing, #FurnitureMaking, and #Teaching. I do #Volunteering, #RepairCafe, #MakersHour, and #Carer for an elderly Mum. Semi retired maker of things from garden planters to #Museum installations. I am currently part time employed as a caretaker, cleaner, and maintenance person. Currently building a #Community #Workshop in Salford. I also run the @MakersHour@cupoftea.social account. I am #Writing and #Miniaturing about @HarrietMaker@cupoftea.social and Daisy in the fictional market town of Theraton. #HarrietAndDaisy
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JuneSim63 💚 @junesim63@mstdn.social · Jun 07, 2026
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The housing charity Shelter found that more than 1.3m households are on a waiting list for a social home, but only 12,198 were built by councils, housing associations or private developers across England last year. This equates to an average of 110 households waiting for every new social home delivered, and it would take 119 years to clear the waiting lists if building continued at the same rate. #Housing #SocialHousing #UKPolitics https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/07/social-housing-119-years-waitlist-current-building-rate?CMP=GTUK_email
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likelyjanlukas
Likely Jan Lukas @likelyjanlukas@mstdn.ca · Mar 29, 2026
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An intetesting peculiarity of living in #SocialHousing is that we are explicitly banned from having window-based #AC in our units. While I live in #Alberta, my understanding is that this ban is found throughout social housing #leases in #Canada. Granted, the writing style and language choices strongly suggest such leases were drafted in the early 1970s at the latest, and back then I would have easily agreed that #AirConditioning would not be necessary. However, 50-some years on, the heat is routinely a bajillion (estimated 😛) degrees higher and #disabled folks and others in social housing are BANNED* from installing what is literally life-saving equipment under the 'new normal' of our #FireSeason summers. *TBC: portable AC units are not explicitly banned (not commercially-available yet when the leases were written??? 🤔) but these have limited range and are usually energy-inefficient compared to modern AC window units 6/x #health #safety #medical #medications #disability #poverty
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likelyjanlukas
Likely Jan Lukas @likelyjanlukas@mstdn.ca · Mar 29, 2026
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In light of the above--a combination of increasing environmental stressors that negatively affect my #disability management and day-to-day functionality against a background of ongoing pandemic--it should come as no surprise that my #SocialHousing unit is presently the very opposite of tidy. Annual stretches of multi-month #physical non-functionality from #ExtremeHeat (and also often terrible #AirQuality) make it tough to keep up with all but the most basic tasks. And for many #disabled folks, our disablities, chronic #MedicalConditions, necessary #medications, and so forth may already have made "keeping up with the basics" pretty challenging in the best of times. And these are NOT the best of times. Not by a long shot. 7/x #housekeeping #chores #DailyCare #DailyRoutines #RoutineTasks
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likelyjanlukas
Likely Jan Lukas @likelyjanlukas@mstdn.ca · Mar 29, 2026
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The catch is this: at some point, a contractor for #SocialHousing had been sent to fix something. That person saw my strata and other unit chaos--again caused or at least *strongly* influenced by multi-years' worth of environmental issues that the landlord is NOT mitigating (notably: extreme heat and access to clear air for venting built-up heat)--and reported it to the landlord. The landlord in turn requested that I consider contacting the Hoarding Disorder Foundation of Alberta to work at reducing the amount of stuff I have in my unit. 12/x #clutter #mess #accessibility #HoardingDisorder
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Likely Jan Lukas @likelyjanlukas@mstdn.ca · Mar 29, 2026
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A specific example: A family member came to visit and even extended their stay a few days specifically to make my kitchen #accessible, as in #functional, for me. As mentioned, the kitchen has been my 'nerve-centre' for dealing with much of these past few years' cascade of #emergency issues that have been particularly hard on folks like me with no #HeatTolerance and also bonus #LungProblems during #ExtremeHeat and also #Wildfire events. Much of its floorspace was filled with the strata of attending to and doing my best to mitigate these urgent problems, even those that relate to #lease restrictions and #SocialHousing not choosing to upgrade units to meet this new reality. In many ways, this was not a big deal for me: I don't feel safe using the stove/oven (#balance and #tremour issues). My #arthritis doesn't handle preparing cold meat for microwave or toaster-oven cooking, so I eat frozen meals and graze from various pre-prepped options such as crackers. 20/x #accessibility #usability #workflow
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