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Matthews explained Dekum Court will introduce 80 two-bedroom, 41 three-bedroom, and seven four-bedroom apartments to the affordable housing market. Of the 187 units that will ultimately be available, 61 will be affordable to households earning 30% or less of the area family income. To be eligible for the remainder of the units, families must have incomes at or below 60% of the area median family income.

Matthews explained Dekum Court will introduce 80 two-bedroom, 41 three-bedroom, and seven four-bedroom apartments to the affordable housing market. Of the 187 units that will ultimately be available, 61 will be affordable to households earning 30% or less of the area family income. To be eligible for the remainder of the units, families must have incomes at or below 60% of the area median family income.

Three years after the government announced it would scrap minimum wage exemptions and replace them with a wage subsidy, some disabled workers are still earning an average of just $5 an hour. Information obtained by Checkpoint from the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment shows there are 169 disabled workers with the exemption. Under the Minimum Wage Act businesses can apply for an exemption to pay an employee with a dissability less than the minimum wage, on the basis they're less ...

Chair Deborah Kafoury, PBOT and Community Leaders install a memorial street sign near childhood home.

Two mates shoot the breeze about life with a disability.

Two mates shoot the breeze about life with a disability.

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“My mother once explained that she had a sense something was different during her pregnancy with me, but that somehow she also knew instinctively that whatever happened, it would all be OK,” says Grace. When her baby daughter arrived 10 weeks early, Debbie Stratton’s hunch was realised. Grace had a difficult start in life and was diagnosed at age one with cerebral palsy, which affects her movement, muscle control, posture and balance. Grace has happy memories of growing up on the famil...