Conference Presentation

The introduction of Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has changed the way supports are funded, including Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA). This change requires understanding of the new housing policy and its potential application.

Australia’s ten-year National Disability Strategy highlights the need for universal design principles to build ‘an inclusive Australian society that enables people with disability to fulfil their potential as equal citizens’. Inclusive housing and community design is a key enabler to address this need, and benefits from an interdisciplinary approach with the tenant and their supporters, health professionals, architects and technologists.