Building Innovative Accommodation for People with Disability
Twenty-one organisations across Australia will share $60 million to help build community-based accommodation for adults with severe or profound disability.
People with disability need access to a range of supported accommodation models that will allow them, and their carers, to participate as valued members of their communities.
The Supported Accommodation Innovation Fund will help address a shortfall in supported accommodation and respite for people with disability.
It will encourage innovation and drive change in the way supported accommodation services are provided.
Negotiations for funding agreements are in progress with the successful 21 organisations, which will be responsible for 27 projects, providing 169 new supported accommodation and respite places across the country.
This is 19 more places than we originally committed to delivering.
The new places will be available to people with severe or profound disability.
Some of the places will be provided for people with ageing carers or people in rural and remote communities, and there are specific projects that will be provided for Indigenous communities.
The new innovative accommodation includes a vertical village with an accessible gym, and homes designed with leading edge technologies based on world’s best practice in sustainable housing, including home automation with motion detected lighting, and electronic devices to enhance hearing and speech difficulties.
This initiative will also help reduce the number of young people with disability who are cared for in nursing homes, or those at risk of placement in residential aged care.
These projects, which are to be completed by June 2014, build on the Australian Government’s $100 million capital injection in 2008 to build more than 300 supported accommodation places, which are on track to be delivered this year.
For more information on the Supported Accommodation Innovation Fund go to www.saif.govspace.gov.au or for a list of successful projects see attachment.
| Organisation | State | Project Title | Funding (GST excl.) |
|---|---|---|---|
| CatholicCare Canberra and Goulburn | ACT | Gungahlin Living In Networked Communities (LINC) Program | $1,200,000 |
| Affordable Community Housing Ltd | NSW | Ryde Area Supported Accommodation for Intellectually Disabled | $3,733,598 |
| Affordable Community Housing Ltd | NSW | Grandview Project | $2,080,327 |
| Compass Housing Services Co Ltd | NSW | Hunter Villages | $7,371,200 |
| Endeavour Industries Ltd | NSW | Edgeworth Gardens Residential Development | $2,937,000 |
| Housing Plus | NSW | Dubbo Supported Accommodation Project | $1,815,909 |
| North Coast Community Housing Company | NSW | House to Home | $637,500 |
| North Coast Community Housing Company | NSW | House to Home | $600,000 |
| North Coast Community Housing Company | NSW | House to Home | $600,000 |
| The Disability Trust | NSW | The WorkAble Living Project | $800,000 |
| Life Without Barriers | NT | Alice Springs Respite Centre | $1,302,728 |
| Cootharinga North Queensland | Qld | My Home is Smarter, Greener and Accessible! (Cootharinga Housing Innovations) | $840,450 |
| Kyabra Community Association | Qld | Three Resident DMD Home Fitzgibbon | $729,119 |
| Kyabra Community Association | Qld | Three Resident Home, Wynnum | $764,011 |
| Synapse (Brain Injury Association of Qld Inc.) | Qld | Wabu Gadun Bulmba Gurriny Mukanji | $4,592,720 |
| Community Accommodation and Respite Agency (Cara) Inc. | SA | Addressing unmet need and personal development through Regional Farm Stay Respite | $740,908 |
| Centacare Tasmania | Tas | Supported Accommodation Drake Street | $577,000 |
| Kingston Uniting Church in Australia | Tas | Kingston Uniting Church Residential Community, Rowallan Park | $2,801,650 |
| Active Property Services Management Ltd | Vic | Active Whittlesea, New Beginnings | $1,041,060 |
| Community Housing (Vic) Ltd | Vic | Heidelberg Key Ring | $1,612,220 |
| each Housing Limited | Vic | Building an Independent Future | $2,465,800 |
| each Housing Limited | Vic | Independent Living Venus Bay | $710,690 |
| Haven | Vic | Cairo | $4,100,000 |
| Housing Choices Australia | Vic | Gateways and HCA Innovative Housing Model, Greater Geelong | $2,064,971 |
| Housing Choices Australia | Vic | Supporting Pathways for Disability Accommodation in Bairnsdale | $1,556,740 |
| Mission Australia Housing | Vic | Lardner Road Mixed Purpose Unit Development | $1,939,000 |
| Yarra Community Housing Ltd | Vic | Dual Disability, Housing and Support | $1,930,631 |