What is NDIS & SDA?
NDIS
- Supports the independence and social and economic participation of people with disability.
- Promotes the provision of high quality and innovative supports that enable people with disability to maximise independent lifestyles and full inclusion in the community.
- Enables people with disability to exercise choice and control in pursuit of their goals and the planning and delivery of their supports.
SDA
- SDA (Specialist Disability Accommodation) Funding is for housing for NDIS participants with extreme functional impairment and/or very high support needs who require specialist housing solutions.
- SDA is about the bricks and mortar housing and is separate to funding for support services.
- NDIS does not own or operate any of the housing and through SDA aims to encourage growth in housing.
- The next generation of NDIS funded SDA housing has growth in house, villa and unit options and a decline of large group homes. Housing can include apartments, villas, duplexes, townhouses and houses, notable for not looking like specialist housing.
Facts & Figures
- The NDIS funds over 646,000 people with disability, and specialist housing could be funded for at least 36,000 out of that total umber (estimated for 2042).
- Currently, around 24,000 NDIS participants have SDA funding in their plan, however, there are only 8,590 enrolled SDA dwellings, 47% of which are legacy and old style homes, many of which will be phased out over the coming years. We also have around 47,000 dwellings in the pipeline. This means that an additional 12,000 people who are expected to qualify for SDA funding, plus those currently living in legacy housing, aged care and inappropriate housing will require up to 7,000 new built dwellings over the coming years.
- 1 in 5 (around 4.4 million) Australians currently have a disability of some type – over one-third of Australian households have a person with a disability.
- Research indicates a 60 per cent chance that a house will be occupied by a person with a disability at some point over its life. This person is likely to be someone you know – a parent, child, sibling, or friend.
- The number of Australians with disability will inevitably rise as the population grows and ages. The significantly aging baby boomer demographic represents a growing market for age-friendly, livable designed housing.
- The cost to the homeowner of including key livable housing design features (in this case the silver level) in a new build is 22 times more efficient than retrofitting when an unplanned need arises.
