We don’t call them councils, but there is a somewhat similar process here. While on a list for public housing here there are certain restrictions on income, basically if you make over a certain level you’re off the list. Then, when you’re in, you can be booted out if your income rises over the level, but they give you a certain amount of time to find another place. Public housing here, however, is at a premium — it exists, but the wait list in Ottawa can be three to four years. And your Occupational Therapist has way more power than ours. Here it would be the doctors who would submit their assessment on physical or mental needs. But if it’s a private residence I was renting it would really be up to the landlord and whether he could get enough incentives from the Province to do the job. Which he never would… so no bathroom, so if it were vital I’d have to move.

“…because they don’t want to spend any money.” That’s exactly why you’re not getting a bathroom. They probably figure you’re moving eventually into a place which, hopefully, will have the facilities you need so why bother upgrading…