Are you eligible for SDA?

The Summer Foundation’s Housing Hub Team works in a number of ways to support people with disability to reach their goals of living more independent lives. If you are a person with disability, family member or carer, our Housing Hub Team can support you to:

• Understand Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) and if you are likely to be eligible for this funding

• Apply for a new home (where we are working with the landlord of the home)

• Understand your housing needs and preferences

Learn about SDA

This Housing Hub website has lots of great information to help you learn about SDA:

• This series of 7 short videos about SDA is a great way to get started
• This page explains the process for getting SDA funding in your NDIS plan
• Here are some frequently asked questions about SDA

You can also call our SDA Advice Line – 1300 61 64 63 – on Monday to Friday, from 10am to 3pm (Sydney and Melbourne time), or email us at mynewhome@housinghub.org.au

Our team can work with you

Our team works to match people with disability seeking SDA with SDA housing and it also works with a number of housing providers. If you want to apply for a new home, we can support you to do so by completing the relevant paperwork with you at a face-to-face or online meeting.

If you are not interested in any of the homes our team is working on at the moment, you might want to provide some information about your housing needs and preferences by creating a Housing Seeker Profile.

Our team is working with people with disability to create Housing Seeker Profiles and build a ‘big picture’ map of their housing needs and preferences.  This big picture map will help to connect people with disability to SDA providers. SDA providers often want to build new homes but they don’t know where to build, who to build for or what sort of home to build e.g. robust homes or fully accessible homes. Your Housing Seeker Profile will help them to understand.

We can support you to create your Housing Seeker Profile, which will help inform the SDA market about what should be built. If you’d like to know more about them, please contact us.

Support in SDA homes

The SDA providers our team works with respect the principle of people with disability exercising choice and control over where you live, who you live with and the support you receive in your home. For the supports outlined in your NDIS plan you will have complete choice and control over who provides these services to you.

In addition to your core (or planned) supports, you will have access to 24-hour concierge support from a Supported Independent Living (SIL) provider. The concierge support can be used in the case of an unplanned occurrence, such as an additional person to assist with transfers, assistance to retrieve an item on the floor, overnight repositioning to prevent pressure areas or any other irregular event. The concierge can also be used if there is an emergency. Smart home technology enables tenants to call for assistance when they need it.

Providers we are currently working with

All providers that we partner with are approved NDIS service providers of Specialist Disability Accommodation. SDA providers work with property developers to build new homes that meet the design standards outlined by the NDIS.

The map to the right outlines where in Australia we are working with providers to seek tenants for their properties.

Find out more

To discuss your eligibility for SDA funding, or learn about homes that have vacancies please contact our team on 0477 714 317 or at mynewhome@housinghub.org.au

Learn about housing for people with disability 

If you want to find out what your housing options are, book in for one of our free workshops.

You will learn about many types of housing and you can ask us your questions.