Housing and Indigenous disability: lived experiences of housing and community infrastructure

Grant, Elizabeth; Zillante, George; Srivastava, Amit; Tually, Selina; Chong, Alwin

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“…People with significant disability are some of the most economically and social disadvantaged Australians and are affected by low incomes, limited access to paid work (Kavanagh, Krnjacki et al 2013), poor access to affordable and appropriate housing (Beer and Faulkner 2011) andunder previous policy regimes-a reliance on family and other informal carers to meet their needs (Productivity Commission 2010, 2011). These inequalities can be more acute for women than for men (Kavanagh, Krnjacki et al 2015), as well as for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Grant, Zillante et al 2017) and may vary according to type of disability and the source of the impairment. People with a disability are often concentrated in social housing, including large-scale estates (Tually, Beer et al 2011), and often under circumstances that do not meet their needs (Kroehn, Hutson et al 2008).…”

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Understanding Specialist Disability Accommodation funding

Beer¹,

Flanagan²,

Verdouw³

et al. 2019

AHURI Final Report

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AHURI AHURI is a national independent research network with an expert not-for-profit research management company, AHURI Limited, at its centre. AHURI's mission is to deliver high quality research that influences policy development and practice change to improve the housing and urban environments of all Australians. Using high quality, independent evidence and through active, managed engagement, AHURI works to inform the policies and practices of governments and the housing and urban development industries, and stimulate debate in the broader Australian community. AHURI undertakes evidence-based policy development on a range of priority policy topics that are of interest to our audience groups, including housing and labour markets, urban growth and renewal, planning and infrastructure development, housing supply and affordability, homelessness, economic productivity, and social cohesion and wellbeing. Acknowledgements This material was produced with funding from the Australian Government and state and territory governments. AHURI Limited gratefully acknowledges the financial and other support it has received from these governments, without which this work would not have been possible. AHURI Limited also gratefully acknowledges the contributions, both financial and in-kind, of its university research partners who have helped make the completion of this material possible. Disclaimer The opinions in this report reflect the views of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of AHURI Limited, its Board, its funding organisations or Inquiry panel members. No responsibility is accepted by AHURI Limited, its Board or funders for the accuracy or omission of any statement, opinion, advice or information in this publication. AHURI journal AHURI Final Report journal series is a refereed series presenting the results of original research to a diverse readership of policy-makers, researchers and practitioners. Peer review statement An objective assessment of reports published in the AHURI journal series by carefully selected experts in the field ensures that material published is of the highest quality. The AHURI journal series employs a double-blind peer review of the full report, where anonymity is strictly observed between authors and referees.

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Section: Background: the Sda Programmentioning

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Understanding Specialist Disability Accommodation funding

Beer¹,

Flanagan²,

Verdouw³

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“…Grech (2015) argues that income poverty compounds the exclusion of Indigenous people with disabilities as they cannot afford to be mobile, despite needing critical assistance, medical intervention and disability aids and equipment. Australian scholars Grant and colleagues (2016) have noted the significance of mobility aids and equipment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians living with disability in rural and remote Australia, capturing the particular ways in which personal mobility aids and equipment are intimately tied to the making of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural identity through enabling their enduring involvement in cultural practices and ceremony, alongside taking up communal responsibilities. Mobility and physical movement for Indigenous people with disabilities is thus multifaceted; personal mobility is critical for the realisation of disabled people's individual autonomy, self-expression and care of the self (see Imrie, 2014), and this is intimately intertwined with the individual's social expression of cultural integrity, participation and belonging (Grant et al ., 2016).…”

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Policy Mobilities of Exclusion: Implications of Australian Disability Pension Retraction for Indigenous Australians

Soldatić

2017

Social Policy & Society

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There is growing concern surrounding the retraction of disability social provisioning measures across the western world, with state fiscal policy trends foregrounding austerity as a central principle of welfare provisioning. This is occurring within many of the nation-states that have ratified and legislated rights enshrined by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). This article undertakes a critical analysis of disability income retraction in Australia since the early 2000s and examines these changes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians living with disability by focusing on Article 20 of the CRPD, the right to personal mobility, a core right for people with disabilities and Indigenous peoples. Beyond economic inequality, the article illustrates that the various administrative processes attached to welfare retraction have implications for the realisation of mobility practices that are critical for individual cultural identity and wellbeing. Disability austerity has resulted in a new form of Indigenous containment, fixing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disabilities in a cyclical motion of poverty management.

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“…Research has shown that people with disability have poorer housing outcomes than the Australian population as a whole, with significant differences associated with the type of disability, the way in which the disability was acquired and the severity of disability [2,4,5]. Further work has highlighted the differential outcomes between men and women [6,7], and the significant disadvantage experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders [8]. Households in which one or more members have a disability frequently find it difficult to secure appropriately located accommodation, and often therefore live on the urban fringe, in less expensive regional communities at some distance from public transport and other services [4].…”

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The Relative Risk of Homelessness among Persons with a Disability: New Methods and Policy Insights

Beer

Baker

Lester

et al. 2019

IJERPH

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This paper reports on the first phase of an ambitious program of research that seeks to both understand the risk of homelessness amongst persons with a disability in Australia and shed light on the impact of a significant policy reform—the introduction of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)—in changing the level of homelessness risk. This first paper, reports on the level of homelessness risk for persons with a disability prior to the introduction of the NDIS, with a subsequent paper providing updated data and analysis for the period post the implementation of the NDIS. In one sense, this paper provides the ‘base’ condition prior to the introduction of the NDIS but also serves a far broader role in advancing our understanding of how disability and chronic ill-health affects the risk of homelessness. Our research finds that in the period prior to the introduction of the NDIS, a large proportion of people with disabilities were at risk of homelessness, but those whose disabilities affected their schooling or employment were at the greatest risk.

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Housing and Indigenous disability: lived experiences of housing and community infrastructure

Cited by 10 publications

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Understanding Specialist Disability Accommodation funding

Understanding Specialist Disability Accommodation funding

Policy Mobilities of Exclusion: Implications of Australian Disability Pension Retraction for Indigenous Australians

The Relative Risk of Homelessness among Persons with a Disability: New Methods and Policy Insights

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