SDA homes that
enable lifestyles
DEC Housing is a registered charity committed to providing customised Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) for people with disability that empowers their lifestyle and independence.
DEC: Dignity. Empowerment. Choice.
Dignity, Empowerment and Choice is our commitment as we work with you to build your own energy efficient home, reflecting your choices and lifestyle. In fact, it’s the DEC in our name, DEC Housing.
Housing to meet your needs
Specialist Disability Accommodation
Your choice of location
Your input to designs and features
DEC Housing provides accessible housing options to NDIS participants by engaging each client from the outset. We learn about where you want to live, then explore the features you need in your home, customising our designs in consultation with you and your care team.
Yours for life
The home we develop together is yours for life, if you want it. DEC Housing tenants retain first choice to renew their lease every five years.
Plus, Age in place design means your home will continue to meet your changing needs as you age, so you can continue to live comfortably in your own home.
News
No strings attached: what the new NDIS ban on inducements means for finding a home
From 20 November 2026, NDIS providers can no longer offer gifts, payments or other benefits to win or keep a participant’s business. We look at what the inducements ban means for people choosing SDA, and questions worth asking when a housing offer comes attached.
When the house becomes the restraint: seclusion and SDA
Most people picture seclusion as a locked room. In shared disability housing, it’s often a locked kitchen, a closed front door or a quiet instruction to stay put. As the NDIS Commission examines seclusion as a deprivation of liberty, housing deserves a bigger place in the conversation.
Response to the NDIS Commission’s Own Motion Inquiry into the deprivation of liberty
DEC’s submission to the NDIS Commission’s Own Motion Inquiry into the deprivation of liberty of participants subjected to seclusion. Seclusion often happens where nobody recognises it as seclusion. Safeguarding that relies largely on providers reporting their own practices will not detect seclusion that the provider does not recognise or chooses not to report, or that the resident does not know to complain about.