Housing for people with disability
Alternative labels
Specialist disability housing
Article
Tackling the crisis in group homes for people with intellectual disability
If the Disability Care promise of more inclusive lives for people with disability is to be realised additional funding alone will not do it – attention must be paid to the quality of staff support and practice leadership across the entire sector.
Report
Landscape modification: an alternative to residential access ramps and lifts
This report and associated documents explore and analyse the approach to modifying the surrounding landscape of a home in order to improve accessibility through innovative home modification solutions within a community care context.
Conference paper
What policy approaches are needed to ensure that people with psychiatric disabilities have access to appropriate housing?
This paper focuses on policy responses to promote positive housing outcomes, including strategies for inter-sectoral collaboration for policy agenda setting and implementation, addressing community stigma, tackling professional resistance to mental health reform, developing advocacy alliances, providing housing models which address social isolation, and challenging medical discourses on disability.
Report
21st century housing careers and Australia's housing future
This report presents the findings that have emerged out of the second AHURI funded National Research Venture (NRV2), 21st century housing careers and Australia's housing future. The report identifies the major drivers of housing careers in Australia in the first part of the 21st century, as well as policy implications.
Report
From psychiatric hospital to supported housing: the Neami Community Housing Program, Melbourne, Australia, 1995–2008
This paper documents the experience of the Neami Community Housing Program. The paper recounts how the program came about, describes the model it employs, and considers how its practice has changed over time. It then examines outcomes for clients after leaving hospital and implications for practice. The paper concludes by identifying successful characteristics of the...