NHSDP Awareness Campaign ‘Journey to Independent Living’
The vision of the National Housing Strategy for Disabled People 2022 – 2027 is to:
- facilitate disabled people to live independently with the appropriate choice and control over where, how and with whom they live, promoting their inclusion in the community, and
- to further enable equal access for disabled people to housing with integrated support services.
A national campaign called ‘Journey to Independent Living’ has been launched to raise awareness around the housing options and associated supports that are available to disabled people who wish to live independently in their communities.
A new website has been developed that brings together useful information and resources for disabled people. This website will be a tool for people to find information on housing and the supports they need to facilitate independent living. You can visit this website here https://www.homeandsupportshub.ie/
The Housing Agency commenced collecting self-reported data on an annual basis from local authorities in 2017 on the number of allocations made to disabled people in the previous year. The annual returns include allocations to all forms of social housing support. They also include figures on the number of disabled households who accessed the Housing Assistance Payment during the same year. The figures in the table below are broken down into four categories of disability: Physical, Sensory, Mental Health and Intellectual.
Source: The Housing Agency