QDHC Campaigns

Current Issues

Residential Services Reform Package

QDHC with other community sector partners continues to monitor the implementation of the Residential Services Reform Package. This package consists of the Residential Services (Accommodation) Act, the Residential Services (Accreditation) Act, the Resident Support Program, the Community Visitors Program and the Tenancy Advice and Advocay Service.

Affordable Housing Initiatives

As resources for the public housing system reduce, governments and the community sector are looking to public/private partnerships and to the private sector to respond to the increasing demand for affordable housing. The barriers that prevent people with a disability accessing appropriate housing are affordability, design and discrimination. QDHC is anxious that as we identify and develop mechanisms for the delivery of ‘affordable housing’ we are also able to clearly articulate measures that address the remaining barriers. The questions remain. Affordable Housing – How affordable? Where and for whom?

New Project

The mail in recent times has produced quite a number of brochures and promotional material highlighting opportunities to attend seminars and training sessions and even self-defense classes to assist a whole range of identified people to ‘manage challenging behaviour’.

Coupled with this is the continuing debate at policy level about people with challenging behaviour and how or where those people might be ‘managed’.

Nowhere is these conversations is there recognition of the individual. Visions of a unique live, dreams and aspirations are often buried beneath the focus on ‘behaviour’.

QDHC is currently developing a project to explore these issues in relation to people having access to appropriate housing and the factors that influence the variety of outcomes experienced.