Housing
Building the evidence base for housing that truly includes people with disability.
Every Australian has the right to a home where they belong
Access to secure and appropriate housing allows people with disability to live a rich life in their community.
We know that choosing where you live, who you live with, and how your home life suits your individual needs is fundamental to the wellbeing of people with disability.
The Achieve Foundation is listening to what people with disability value most about being and feeling ‘at home’. We want to understand what ‘good’ and ‘bad’ days are like for people who live in disability accommodation so their voices can inform best practice in housing design and support delivery.
“Inclusive housing means living alongside everyone else - not clusters hidden on the edge of town, not segregated developments.”
— Australian Disability Ltd
Setting the foundations of inclusive housing
Our housing-focused agenda empowers people with disability and their networks by:
providing information about the types and locations of Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) housing in NSW
identifying factors that affect the positive and effective delivery of complex accommodation support.
The Achieve Foundation partnered with the University of Technology, Sydney to map SDA supply across local government areas in NSW. This report speaks directly to the disability community by presenting accommodation data in diverse and inclusive formats.
Building on this partnership, the ‘What makes a good day in SDA’ project is developing an interview methodology for exploring the ways in which people with high accommodation support needs experience participation and inclusion in their household and community.
Our housing programs
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Accommodation mapping
With researchers from the UTS School of Built Environment, we’ve mapped Specialist Disability Accommodation in NSW to help answer questions about how people with intellectual disability’s experience of community differs from other people.
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Disability perspectives - What makes a good day?
Specialist Disability Accommodation: The perspectives of people with disability on their homes, neighbourhoods and community participation. ‘Inclusive cities’ means nothing if people with disability are not actively experiencing a diversity of local places and spaces in their daily lives.
Help us do more
Accessible, appropriate housing changes everything for people with disability. If you want to help us build the evidence and drive the investment that makes it possible, we would love to hear from you.
