Questions and Answers

Specialist disability accommodation: NDIS-funded housing for people with extreme functional impairment or very high support needs, built with features that make other supports easier and safer. It pays for the home, not the support workers.

The NDIA, based on evidence such as occupational therapy and housing reports. It writes the design category, building type and location into the plan.

A reasonable rent contribution to the SDA provider, capped at 25% of the Disability Support Pension, 25% of the Pension Supplement and any Commonwealth Rent Assistance, plus day-to-day costs like electricity.

SDA is the home. SIL (supported independent living) is funding for support workers in the home. Many people have both, often from different providers.

We connect NDIS participants, families and support coordinators with registered SDA providers who may have a suitable home. You answer a few questions, we pass your details to one suitable provider, and they contact you.

No. It's free for you. Providers pay us for introductions, which is how we keep it free. It doesn't change the rent you pay, which is capped by the NDIS.

No. We're an independent service. We're not part of the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) or the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission, and we don't own or manage homes.

It depends on the provider. We only pass your details to providers who may have a suitable home now or coming up, and we follow up to check you were contacted. If you haven't heard back, email us and we'll chase it.

We take enquiries from every state and territory. Put the postcode where the person would like to live in the form.

Yes, tell us where things are at. Providers can generally only offer a home that matches what's in the plan, so we'll also point you to how to get SDA funding.

Only the registered SDA or SIL provider we match you with. If they can't help, we pass your details to another registered provider, one at a time, up to 3 in total. Nobody else gets them for their own marketing.

Yes. Email hello@sdaaccommodation.com.au and we'll stop passing your details on and let any provider we've introduced you to know.

So the provider can tell straight away whether a home could suit, and you don't have to explain everything twice. We ask for your consent first because this is sensitive information.

Yes. Use the referral form. Please check the participant, or their nominee, agrees to the referral first. We'll let you know who's picking it up.

If you're registered with the NDIS Commission and have SDA homes or vacancies to fill, register your interest on the providers page and we'll be in touch.