SPECIALIST DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION Supply in Australia March 2019 SPECIALIST DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION Supply in Australia March 2019 Social Ventures Australia Funding • Investment • Advice Brisbane | Melbourne | Perth | Sydney | ABN 94 100 487 572 [email protected] | socialventures.com.au | @social_ventures Summer Foundation Summer Foundation Ltd ABN 90 117 719 516 PO Box 208 Blackburn 3180 VIC Australia Telephone: +613 9894 7006 Fax: +613 8456 6325 [email protected] www.summerfoundation.org.au © 2019, Summer Foundation Ltd. A copy of this report is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (international) DISCLAIMERS Social Ventures Australia and the Summer Foundation have prepared this report in good faith based on information available to us at the date of publication. Information has been obtained from sources that we believe it to be reliable and up to date, but we have not verified its accuracy or completeness. 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Table of contents Foreword .................................................. 3 Modelling SDA undersupply .................. 21 Appendix A: New SDA supply as reported in survey ............................. 36 Executive Summary ................................. 4 Where is SDA undersupply? .................. 21 Introduction to maps .....................................21 Appendix B: SDA supply and demand Background .............................................. 5 Map 8: New South Wales ..............................22 – New South Wales ................................ 37 What is SDA ....................................................5 Map 9: Victoria ..............................................23 Previous SDA market analysis .........................5 Appendix C: SDA supply and demand Map 10: Queensland .....................................24 New SDA data from the NDIS ..........................5 Queensland ............................................ 38 Map 11: South Australia ................................25 Survey methodology ........................................6 Map 12: Western Australia .............................26 Appendix D: SDA supply and demand – Victoria and WA ................................... 39 National overview of results .................... 8 Map 13: ACT and Northern Territory ..............27 Type of new SDA reported ....................... 9 Map 14: Tasmania .........................................28 Appendix E: SDA supply and demand – ACT, NT, SA and Tasmania .................. 40 Stage of SDA development ................... 10 SDA Provider Profiles ............................ 29 Melba Support Services/ TECHNICAL NOTES ............................... 41 Profile of new SDA developers Community Housing Limited ......................... 30 and providers ......................................... 11 Access 2 Place .............................................. 31 Where is the new SDA supply? ............. 13 Summer Housing ........................................... 32 Introduction to maps .....................................13 Youngcare ...................................................... 33 Map 1: New South Wales ..............................14 Connecting the new market – Map 2: Victoria ..............................................15 The Housing Hub ........................................... 34 Map 3: Queensland .......................................16 New SDA Data from the National Map 4: South Australia ..................................17 Disability Insurance Agency .................. 35 Map 5: Tasmania ...........................................18 Map 6: Western Australia ...............................20 Map 7: ACT and Northern Territory ................20 SPECIALIST DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION – Supply in Australia 1 Figures and Tables Table 1 – New SDA places by jurisdiction GLOSSARY Figure 1 – Location of new SDA places Table 2 – New SDA supply by Building Type CHP Community Housing Provider in development and Design Category DGR Deductible Gift Registration Figure 2 – New SDA supply by jurisdiction Table 3 – Provider type by Building Type DSP Disability Support Provider Figure 3 – New SDA supply by Building Type Table 4 – Provider type by Design Category NDIA National Disability Insurance Agency Figure 4 – New SDA supply by Design Category Table 5 – SDA modelled undersupply NDIS National Disability Insurance Scheme and new supply Figure 5 – New SDA supply by stage NFP Not for Profit of development SA4 Statistical Area level 4 Figure 6 – New SDA supply – expected completion date SDA Specialist Disability Accommodation Figure 7 – SDA provider type by number SIL Supported Independent Living of SDA places in development Figure 8 – Number of providers by number of SDA places in development Figure 9 – New Build SDA enrolled compared with new SDA supply Figure 10 – New Build SDA enrolled compared with new SDA supply by Design Category 2 SPECIALIST DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION – Supply in Australia Foreword It is with great enthusiasm and optimism that Our organisations partnered on this report because Luke Bosher Social Ventures Australia and the Summer we know that robust evidence and data are key CEO, Foundation present this report into the growth enablers of a successful SDA market that delivers Summer Foundation in supply of Specialist Disability Accommodation on this vision for people with disability. (SDA) across Australia. We hope this report will inform and guide the next Specialist Disability Accommodation Supply in phase of investment in SDA. Greater transparency Diana Ferner Australia is the most comprehensive snapshot of what is underway and where, will enhance the Director, Consulting and Disability Lead undertaken to date on how the market is responding confidence of those actively involved in the market Social Ventures Australia to the opportunity to expand housing supply for and allow stakeholders to make more informed people with disability. investment decisions. The report’s finding, that more than 1,500 new SDA We also anticipate that this data will aid governments places are in the construction pipeline, should be and market intermediaries to identify where the SDA welcomed by people with disability, governments market is lagging and where more focused efforts and the broader supply market. to generate SDA supply might be needed. This report highlights geographies and building The SDA market is still in its infancy. There is still types where the SDA market has had a strong early much more to do to create an SDA market that response, and shines a light on areas where SDA delivers the scale of housing anticipated – including supply remains weak and needs more focus by 12,000 new places and redevelopment of a large providers and government. segment of the existing 16,000 places. Social Ventures Australia and the Summer Social Ventures Australia and the Summer Foundation share a vision for an Australia where Foundation look forward to continuing to work people with disability have access to high quality with people with disability, providers, investors and housing that meets their needs and fosters governments to create an SDA market that delivers connection to communities. on the vision of housing for people with disability. SPECIALIST DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION – Supply in Australia 3 Executive Summary Specialist Disability Accommodation Supply The Specialist Disability Accommodation • The estimated undersupply of SDA is in Australia is a report on new supply and potential Supply in Australia report was created to provide concentrated in the major cities, except undersupply of Specialist Disability Accommodation much-needed data on the nascent SDA market to for South Australia where Adelaide already (SDA) across Australia. encourage further investment and speed the creation has significant new supply in the pipeline of specialist housing for people with disability. This report is based on a survey of SDA providers A range of provider types responded to the survey, The report indicates that a solid start has been across Australia undertaken in late 2018. The survey with not-for-profit providers dominating activity, made in the new SDA market, with more than 2,000 collected data about new SDA projects under mainly community housing providers (the latter new SDA places either enrolled (registered with the development in order to determine how many SDA responsible for nearly 60% of the reported supply). NDIS) or in the development pipeline. This takes places are in the pipeline (i.e. being planned or into account 718 places of newly built SDA enrolled constructed). The data presented in the report came with the NDIA as at 31 December 2018. from 55 SDA providers who responded with details of their SDA development projects. However, with around 12,000 new SDA places needing to be created to meet the anticipated The survey indicates that there are 1,518 SDA demand from NDIS participants with SDA funding, places in development around Australia, with the increased market confidence to encourage further most activity