Three reasons disability housing providers should join Nest.

1. Disability accommodation is a now user-driven market

The introduction of the National Insurance Disability Scheme (NDIS) has changed the way people with disability can access accommodation. Through the NDIS, people with disability with high support needs will receive annual funding to pay for their accommodation. This is called Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) funding. NDIS participants with SDA funding will be able to decide where they want to live and who they want to live with. Previously, people with disability had limited choice and control over where they could live. Traditionally, they were offered block-funded group housing or a room in an aged care facility.

With Nest, people with disability can view and apply for SDA properties managed by a wide variety of providers. For providers, Nest offers the chance to showcase your SDA properties to potentially hundreds of new customers.

2. The market is growing

Research predicts that the housing market for people with disability has the potential to grow in size by around $5 billion over the next five years as a result the NDIS.

The NDIS has an annual recurring budget of $700,000 million for SDA funding. This is designed to stimulate the development of new housing options for all people with disability – not just those with SDA funding. Disability providers with vacant SDA rooms or properties will lose their piece of this revenue if places remain unfilled.

Nest enables providers to list their SDA properties and receive applications they know match the funding and support requirements of the vacancy – making it easy to fill vacancies faster.

3. Nest is specifically for SDA

Finding the right people with the right funding to fill SDA vacancies can be tricky. Individualised funding now gives NDIS participants the power to choose their accommodation, rather than providers having control. Knowing whether an applicant for your vacancy has the right funding and support requirements can be complicated and time-consuming. But that’s where Nest can help. Nest is only for people with disability looking for SDA. When a person with disability – or their support worker or carer - completes their personal profile on Nest, they will need to indicate the type of funding they have and their support needs. Using this information – and other details they enter – Nest automatically matches properties with the appropriate level of funding and support requirements to the user.

This means users are only presented with properties that properly meet their needs – and providers only receive applications from users whose funding matches the vacancy.

For more information about how Nest can help disability housing providers, visit: https://gonest.com.au/sda