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Better homes, better lives for people with disability.

The Summer Foundation invests in identifying, designing and scaling up great ideas that deliver better housing and living solutions for Australians with disability who need access to 24/7 support.

What we do

Research

Co-design

Policy

Innovation

Research

We are home to one of Australia’s leading disability research teams. Through our partnership with La Trobe University, our research delivers a practical and rigorous evidence base to transform housing and living options for people with disability who need access to 24/7 support.

Our research team consists of academics and clinicians working on more than 25 projects across the disability, health and housing sectors. The team collaborates with universities and government, with findings regularly published in reports, conferences and peer-reviewed manuscripts.

Innovation

We identify and rigorously test good housing and living support ideas and refine and scale up great ideas in partnership with the best and brightest minds. 

We want to build on our strong evidence base by partnering with people with disability and like-minded organisations, including universities, technology innovators and service providers, to deliver better housing and living solutions for people who need access to 24/7 support.


Latest news

New Episode: New Government… Now What for the NDIS?

What does the new political landscape mean for people with disability and the future of the NDIS? In this special live episode of Reasonable & Necessary, Dr George Taleporos is joined by an incredible panel of disability leaders – El Gibbs, Trinity Ford, and Anna Burke – to unpack what the election result means for the disability community.
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New Episode: Moving Out, Moving On: Beyond group homes for NDIS participants

Why are tens of thousands of Australians with disability still being placed in group homes under the NDIS and what can be done about it? In this episode, Dr George Taleporos is joined by Jess Walker and Anna Burke from the Summer Foundation to unpack their new report, Moving Out, Moving On, which calls for urgent reform of housing and living supports under the NDIS. We explore the hidden cost of group homes, the benefits of Individualised Living Arrangements (ILAs), and hear from Bar and Matt, two people who are living proof that a better way is possible.
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