21/02/2022
We're on the hunt for Short-Term Accessible Rental Property Hosts!
Are you someone with an access need or disability interested in making an income from a room in your home, or a granny flat, apartment, unit or house you’re responsible for that’s currently under-utilised?
Does your home–or a property you manage–meet your access needs, or those of your whanau?
Have you ever considered the idea that others could benefit from the insights and knowledge you’ve gained from your own lived experience of having an access need or disability, or being closely connected with someone who does?
Become a MyAccom host and provide short term accommodation for access travellers.
Basic or complex, the reality is that we’ll all have an access need at some stage in our lives. Having appropriate access to an environment, facilities, information, services, and social interaction while away from home is just as important to those travelling with permanent physical or sensory disabilities, parents with small children, elderly travellers, people with temporary injuries, and their travel companions as it is for anyone else.
Accommodationz is a New Zealand-based social enterprise. We believe that everyone should be able to find and enjoy short-term accommodation that meets their personal, access or disability related requirements with confidence, integrity, and freedom of choice.
Accommodationz is currently building an online marketplace called
MyAccom that connects access travellers with suitable accommodation options. The key difference between MyAccom and other home-share websites is that the properties listed will be homes occupied or managed by people with lived experience of disabilities or access needs, or people closely connected with the access community. This means people with similar access needs staying together who just get it.
As most of the accommodation options listed will be privately owned residential homes, they will not meet (or need to meet) every official accessibility guideline, however, as the property either currently or previously had to meet the requirements of someone with a specific access need, there’s a good chance it’ll suit someone in a similar situation. This supports a disability confident, dignity positive experience for both guest and host.
To find out more and to register your interest in becoming a MyAccom host, please visit https://myaccom.nz