Disability Housing Solutions

19/06/2026

🏡 NOW AVAILABLE – ROBUST SDA DUPLEX IN FLINDERS VIEW, QLD

Looking for a safe, secure, and purpose-built SDA home that supports independence and everyday living?

This modern Robust SDA duplex in Flinders View offers a comfortable, low-maintenance environment designed to meet the needs of SDA-approved participants. With accessible living spaces, a dedicated OOA room, private outdoor area, and quality finishes throughout, this home provides the perfect balance of independence and support.

✨ Property Features:
• 1 SDA participant bedroom
• Dedicated Onsite Overnight Assistance (OOA) room
• 2 accessible bathrooms
• Open-plan living, dining & kitchen
• Covered alfresco area
• Secure garage
• Purpose-built Robust SDA design

📍 Conveniently located close to shopping centres, healthcare services, public transport, and community amenities.

🔑 1 villa available now – enquire today!

📞 1300 419 819
📧 [email protected]
🌐 www.disabilityhousingsolutions.com.au

08/06/2026

🏡 DISCOVER HIGH PHYSICAL SUPPORT SDA HOMES AVAILABLE NOW ACROSS QUEENSLAND

Looking for Specialist Disability Accommodation that offers accessibility, independence, comfort, and quality support? Disability Housing Solutions has a range of High Physical Support (HPS) homes currently available across South East Queensland and the Sunshine Coast.

✨ Featured Properties:
📍 Loganlea – Modern HPS Villas
📍 Buddina – Coastal HPS Apartments
📍 Glass House Mountains – Peaceful HPS Villas
📍 Boondall – Spacious HPS Home

Each property has been purpose-built to NDIS SDA High Physical Support standards and offers accessible living environments designed to support independence, capacity building, and quality of life.

✔ Purpose-built SDA accommodation
✔ Accessible bathrooms and step-free access
✔ OOA support provisions
✔ Modern kitchens and open-plan living
✔ Prime locations close to services and amenities
✔ Vacancies available now

Whether you're a participant, family member, Support Coordinator, SIL provider, or Allied Health Professional, our team is here to help you find the right home.

📞 1300 419 819
📧 [email protected]
🌐 https://www.disabilityhousingsolutions.com.au

29/05/2026

It's been a minute since our last podcast on The DHS Difference but wow did we have an AMAZING conversation!

Ray-Charles from Nurse Assist 24/7 really broke down some super important numbers for SIL.

28/05/2026

🤝 DHS ON THE ROAD THIS JUNE – COME SEE US AT DEC COMMUNITY DISABILITY EXPOS!

June is shaping up to be a busy month and the Disability Housing Solutions team is excited to be connecting with communities across Queensland through the DEC Community Disability Expos.

Whether you're a participant, family member, Support Coordinator, SIL provider, allied health professional, investor, or community partner — stop by and say hello to the team. We’d love to chat about Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA), participant pathways, housing opportunities, and building meaningful partnerships.

📍 Brisbane North Community Disability Expo
📅 Wednesday, 3 June | ⏰ 10:00am–1:00pm
🏢 Kedron-Wavell, Chermside QLD

📍 Toowoomba Community Disability Expo
📅 Thursday, 4 June | ⏰ 10:00am–1:00pm
🏢 Highfields Cultural Centre, Highfields QLD

📍 Sunshine Coast Community Disability Expo
📅 Friday, 5 June | ⏰ 10:00am–1:00pm
🏢 Venue 114, Bokarina QLD

🎟️ Register for your FREE tickets to the expo nearest you: https://events.humanitix.com/host/the-disability-events-community-dec-qld

We look forward to meeting new faces, strengthening partnerships, and continuing to create better homes and better lives through collaboration.

22/05/2026

🤝 COME CONNECT WITH DISABILITY HOUSING SOLUTIONS

The DHS team will be attending the RDE – Regional Disability & Seniors Expo Townsville, and we’d love to meet you!

Whether you're a participant, family member, Support Coordinator, SIL provider, allied health professional, investor, or community partner — stop by our stall and connect with our team.

We’re passionate about creating better housing outcomes through collaboration and meaningful partnerships. Come chat with us about SDA, participant pathways, housing solutions, and how we can work together to create better homes and better lives.

📍 Townsville Stadium
📅 Friday, 29 May
⏰ 9:00am–3:00pm

🎟 Register here: https://disabilityexposc.com.au/visit/

21/05/2026

SDA is more insulated from future NDIS cost cutting than people realise.

As governments continue looking for savings and tighter controls across the NDIS, there is growing nervousness throughout parts of the sector. But SDA sits in a very different category to many other supports.

Why?

Because the cost benefit equation is unusually clear.

SDA supports a relatively small cohort of participants, but they are often participants with the highest and most complex support needs anywhere in the Scheme.

When SDA works well, it does not just provide housing.

It can:
• reduce long stay hospital admissions
• reduce pressure on aged care
• improve tenancy stability
• support more efficient support delivery
• reduce broader system costs

Importantly, SDA also has one of the tighter claiming frameworks in the Scheme.

Payments are tied to enrolled dwellings, participant eligibility and actual occupancy. Compared to other parts of the NDIS, the opportunities for low value claiming, leakage or large scale graft are relatively limited.

That does not mean SDA is perfect.

The sector still has:
• vacancy issues
• coordination challenges
• matching problems
• quality inconsistencies

But structurally, it is one of the easier areas of the Scheme to understand economically.

The irony is that SDA often attracts criticism because of the headline funding numbers attached to individual participants or dwellings.

Yet those same numbers are rarely compared against:
• long stay hospital costs
• aged care placements
• justice system interactions
• failed housing outcomes elsewhere in the system

And when you do compare them, the economics become much harder to ignore. This is why SDA should probably be viewed less as discretionary program spending and more as long term social infrastructure.

Not every part of the NDIS can make that argument as clearly.

Take a moment and consider your reaction to that... then ask yourself why.

As governments continue tightening the NDIS, does SDA become more strategically important, not less?

14/05/2026

Something we keep coming back to after Minister Butler's Press Club address last month:

The people who will feel these changes first aren't in Canberra.

They're in regional areas waiting on a housing match. They're in discharge wards waiting for an SDA property to come online. They're seeking to leave the family home and gain their independence. They're support workers already stretched thin, and coordinators trying to explain plan changes to participants who didn't see them coming.

The reform debate at a policy level is one thing. What happens on the ground is another. Most people reading this will get this at a molecular level.

Tighter eligibility, cuts to social and community participation, commissioning changes to SIL... these aren't abstract. For people who rely on the scheme for housing, for independence, for daily life so the details matter enormously. Imagine your most fundamental choices being taken from you...

In SDA, we see it clearly: great housing with thoughtful design, in the right location, with the right support mix, reduces long term system cost and not only improves participant outcomes, it gives human beings dignity.

That's not spin, that's what the data shows. But that case has to be made loudly right now, or it gets lost in the noise.

We'd love to hear from the people closest to this 👇

💬 What are your participants or clients most worried about right now?

💬 Where do you think the system genuinely needs to change — and where does it need protecting?

💬 What's one thing you wish policymakers actually understood about how this works on the ground?

So much uncertainty in the community right now around changes to the :( It strikes us that whats needed is to keep humans at the centre of why we're a...

12/05/2026

Something important is happening in the SDA world right now, and we want to talk about it openly. 💬

Some SDA providers are making the decision to step away from providing SDA services. Some quietly, some less so. And if your SDA provider is one of them, you might be feeling confused, worried, or unsure about what happens next.

First: your home is not at risk because a provider changes. SDA funding stays with you, and the transition process exists to make sure you are looked after. But it does matter a lot who steps in; and how well they do it because it does take a lot of coordination.

Here’s what we want people to understand about why this is happening:

SDA is genuinely complex. Being an SDA provider isn’t like being a landlord, we’re not just keeping the lights on and fixing the dishwasher. A good SDA provider:

✅ Understands your specific disability related housing needs. Not just the building, but how it works for you
✅ Navigates strict NDIS compliance requirements on your behalf
✅ Manages relationships with the NDIA, auditors, and tenancy laws that vary from state to state
✅ Advocates for you when things need to change

With Minister Butler’s recent NDIS reforms, the bar is rising further which will continue to create challenges on the business side for providers. This means providers who were doing SDA as part of a bigger business are making hard calls about whether it’s worth the cost and complexity to do it properly.

We get it. It’s not simple.

But when a provider exits, real people in real homes are affected. And that’s not something to manage with a letter and a phone number.

If you or someone you support has been told their SDA provider is leaving, please don’t panic, but do act. You have the right to choose your new provider, and you deserve one who is experienced, stable, and focused on SDA specifically.

We’re here if you have questions. Drop them in the comments, send us a message, email us at [email protected] or tag someone who needs to see this. 👇

12/05/2026

What an incredible few days in Perth at the National Specialist Disability Accommodation Conference hosted by Housing & Disability.

A huge thank you to Gabriel and Patriarca for bringing together passionate leaders, providers and advocates focused on improving outcomes across the SDA and disability sector.

We were proud to have DHS Strategic Advisor and Market Lead Dave Esler speaking on one of the conference’s strongest messages — collaboration creates better participant outcomes and stronger, healthier businesses.

In the SDA sector, no organisation can do everything alone. The best outcomes happen when SDA providers, SIL providers, Support Coordinators, Plan Managers, Government Departments and allied professionals work together with the participant at the centre.

Dave’s key message was simple:
👉 Stick to your core business
👉 Be exceptional at what you do
👉 Collaborate with trusted providers where there are gaps or additional participant needs

When providers collaborate instead of compete, participants receive better support and the sector becomes stronger as a whole.

A special thank you to the incredible speakers, sponsors and organisations involved:

Housing & Disability | Hannah Beazley MLA | Housing | Housing | Gosbell | Moody | Next Door Home Care Services | Nicholas | Hub | Silwal | Housing | Behbhe | Home Health Care | Kibisu | Disability Housing | Klepe | Assist 24/7 | -Charles Meyer | Architects | Katsabis | Singh | Loveless | Omega Business Consulting | Care | Bullow | Knight | Disability Care

Thank you again to everyone involved. DHS looks forward to continuing to build collaborative partnerships that create better homes and better lives.

01/05/2026

🏡 AVAILABLE NOW – HPS SDA VILLA IN CENTENARY HEIGHTS, TOOWOOMBA QLD

Looking for a modern, accessible home that supports independence and comfort? This High Physical Support (HPS) villa is designed to meet your needs while offering a relaxed and connected lifestyle in one of Toowoomba’s most sought-after locations.

✨ Property Highlights:
✔️ 2 bedrooms (ideal for 1 SDA participant)
✔️ 2 bathrooms including a fully accessible ensuite
✔️ Step-free entry, wide hallways & wheelchair-friendly design
✔️ Open plan living for easy accessibility
✔️ Secure single garage with internal access

💡 Funding Options:
All levels of SDA & MTA funding considered

📍 Located in Centenary Heights, close to shops, healthcare, parks, and community amenities—supporting both independence and connection.

💬 The perfect balance of accessibility, independence, and modern living.

📞 Enquire today: 1300 419 819
📧 [email protected]