Resources - Housing/ Home and Living
There is a broad range of information available online about home and living.
On this page, we have provided a range of links to information. You will also find more detailed, specific information by checking our Housing Topics and other Resource pages which you can access from the Let's talk Opening Doors home page. These include:
- Tenancy Resources page: tenancy law/ rental issues
- Advocacy/ Legal Resources page: general advocacy and discrimination assistance
- Home Modifications
- Decision Making.
Resources
Summer Foundation
The Summer Foundation has published a broad range of resources about home.
- Summer Foundation website
- Summer Foundation Resources Libraries (webpage)(this links to all of Summer Foundation's resource libraries)
- Summer Foundation Housing Resources Library (webpage).
Housing Hub
The Housing Hub advertises disability friendly homes and apartments across Australia. The resources section has information to help you plan your move.
- Housing Hub website
- Housing Hub resources for housing seekers (webpage)
- NDIS Housing Advice Line (webpage) (free phone advice line; Mon-Fri 10am-3pm (Sydney time))
- Hospital to Home Service (webpage) (for NDIS participants, or people who are likely to be eligible).
National Alliance of Capacity Building Organisations (NACBO)
- My Home, My Way website - 'Resources to assist people with a disability to thrive in their own home'
- My Home, My Way podcast (website)
- ILO Toolkit: Individualised Living Options (website).
Western Australia's Individualised Services (WAiS)
- WAiS website
- WAiS Mythbusters video series (webpage)
- Creating Home: Individualised Living (webpage)(links to My Home: Individualised Living website)
- My Home: Individualised Living (website).
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NDIS
If you are an NDIS participant, generally refer to NDIS/ For Participants/ Home and Living (webpage).
Also refer to our NDIS - Useful links (MS Word) document. This document provides links to the following, along with some further information:
- Assistive technology explained
- Home and living
- Home and living supporting evidence form
- Support budgets in your plan
- Home modifications explained
- Individualised living options
- Supported Independent Living (SIL) for participants
- Short Term Accommodation or Respite
- Medium term accommodation
- Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) explained
- SDA finder
- Living in and moving out of residential aged care.
Other Information
Need more specific information?
Please complete our information survey or email us at projectofficer@riaustralia.org