A disabled Big Issue vendor has accused his housing association landlord of failing to provide him with an accessible home and discriminating against him in a more than 10-year battle for a suitable place to live.

Amputee Jason Sallis, who sells the Big Issue magazine at London’s Moorgate tube station, is wheelchair-bound and suffers from both ischaemic heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

Housing association Notting Hill Genesis (NHG) has been his landlord since 2014 and, during that time, he has pleaded with them to provide him with a suitable home.

Sallis was housed in a second-floor flat until 2022 which left him “crawling up the stairs” when a lift broke. He was moved to a new ground-floor property in 2022 but has found the home is not accessible for his wheelchair, limiting his mo

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