NDIS Home and Living Options

Discover essential tips from Resourcing Inclusive Communities on finding the right housemates who could help to support your independent living goals.

Have you ever felt that you had to accept a model of support that was designed by a service to meet their own needs instead of yours? Or that your housing funding and housing options were based on wrong assumptions about you? You may have heard comments like, ‘this is how it’s always been’ or ‘this is how we’re funded to do it.’  Having the right support when and how you need it is critical to living in your own home. A very important step to achieving this is to describe your support needs and preferences in as much detail as you can, so that everyone’s clear about what you want and need. This kind of description can also help you provide the right information to the NDIS.  In this article , we talked about making a ‘schedule of supports’. This article will help you to do this; but it’s only a start. Your support needs and preferences will keep changing throughout your life, so it’s good to think of it as a work in progress. Think about it regularly and make changes so that the descr

Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) offers purpose-built housing for people with high support needs. Learn about eligibility, funding, and how to get started.

Learn how parents and carers can support individuals to live independently. Mable’s Libby Ellis will guide you with valuable tips and information to get started on this journey.

Gibbs Hatendi talks to Mable about housing challenges for people with disability that act as barriers for them to live independently, as well as a recent ILO experience.

Peter Gregory talks about how clinicians like Occupational Therapists (OTs) and behaviour support practitioners can have in assisting people with disability achieve their version of home.

An important part of exploring and designing ILO, are the strategies that will address any vulnerabilities faced by the person with disability. However, there are many ways beyond regulatory frameworks in which people with disability can be safeguarded.

Independent living: Uli shares how he went from foster care and group homes to getting his own home, and the support he has received from his Support Coordinator that helped on the way.

Samantha on finding her home through SDA, finding support through Mable and on the misconceptions around using Supported Independent Living with SDA