About
Guy Harris founded AccessiblePRS to solve the UK's accessible housing crisis. An audacious goal that needs an outlier and strategic skill set. Guy Harris is a convenor of people and systems, and has spent twenty five years working in the property sector - with experience in Central London sales, running his own residential and commercial developments, as an investor in both the UK and Germany, and as part of a dedicated team on a startup accessible property fund.
In 2003, Guy sustained a spinal injury, providing lived experience of the accommodation shortfalls of being a wheelchair user, and insight into commercial opportunities and social benefits that accessibility brings to place-making and long-term property investment.
His commercial and solution-led focus is the difference for clients across the private, public and third sectors. Narrative is everything. We have to relate to and want to solve this as an issue, or we fail. During initial engagement, the most commonly received comment is "I'd never thought about it that way." This is the catalyst to change.
Why you? Because you're in property and believe you lead in what you do; place making is something more than marketing spin for you, and you see that excluding people doesn't build resilient communities? Because you're commercially astute and recognise rising trends? Because you see that humans are connected, and can visualise the transformative potential of accessibility impacting people far beyond the immediate resident you're designing for? Because you understand that retaining customers through all their life-cycles makes commercial sense? Because you sense that accessibility and inclusion are an intrinsic part of sustainability or that you're curious to find ways of doing more and better? Or, you have a "how can we..?" mindset, in place of others' "we can't" dictum, and this is important to the U.K. because housing is opportunity and health? And that possibility is exciting?
Or something else? You tell me.
In 2003, Guy sustained a spinal injury, providing lived experience of the accommodation shortfalls of being a wheelchair user, and insight into commercial opportunities and social benefits that accessibility brings to place-making and long-term property investment.
His commercial and solution-led focus is the difference for clients across the private, public and third sectors. Narrative is everything. We have to relate to and want to solve this as an issue, or we fail. During initial engagement, the most commonly received comment is "I'd never thought about it that way." This is the catalyst to change.
Why you? Because you're in property and believe you lead in what you do; place making is something more than marketing spin for you, and you see that excluding people doesn't build resilient communities? Because you're commercially astute and recognise rising trends? Because you see that humans are connected, and can visualise the transformative potential of accessibility impacting people far beyond the immediate resident you're designing for? Because you understand that retaining customers through all their life-cycles makes commercial sense? Because you sense that accessibility and inclusion are an intrinsic part of sustainability or that you're curious to find ways of doing more and better? Or, you have a "how can we..?" mindset, in place of others' "we can't" dictum, and this is important to the U.K. because housing is opportunity and health? And that possibility is exciting?
Or something else? You tell me.
