BY ALICE PEART
Newcastle West will soon be home to twenty new NDIS approved apartments which will feature wider door frames, hoist infrastructure and bump rails, as well as the latest technology in touch and voice activation.
Due to lack of suitable housing across Australia 5,905 people under sixty-five with a disability live in aged-care facilities.
Since March 2017 the NDIS has pushed to remedy the significant gap in the market for specialist disability accommodation with annual recurring funding of $700 million to users who, critically, have control over where they use they live; creating competition for developers.
Now in an Australia first, development company Thirdi Group has secured wheelchair accessible vehicles to be permanently available for residents of their Newcastle NDIS apartments.
Purchasing an apartment will also include three-years worth of credit to use with the GoGet carshare service, allowing residents to effectively use the service for free for a number of years and discounted thereafter.
The vehicles will also be available to the wider public at a standard fare.
