Housing Justice for People in Disability Accommodation Project
Free Legal Support for Housing Issues
What we can help you with:
- Concerns about safety, violence, abuse, neglect
- Tenancy rights issues like privacy, repairs, damage, pets
- Issues with rent
- Being told you have to leave
- Representation at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT)
Get legal help
If you are a person with disability or their advocate or support person, you can contact us by phone or email, or by completing this form.
About the Housing Justice for People in Disability Accommodation Project
Villamanta is working on a project that focuses on people living in disability accommodation in Victoria.
We will work alongside our project partners VALID, the Centre for Innovative Justice and VLA to deliver:
- Individual legal support
- Lived experience peer networks
- Community legal education
- Collective advocacy for improving laws and regulation
- Co-designed and evidence-based recommendations
Together, we aim to improve equal access to housing that is safe, stable, affordable and meets the needs of people with disabilities.
The project is funded through the Legal Services Board Grants Program
Housing Rights Information Sessions
VALID, in partnership with Villamanta, is offering FREE housing rights information sessions for residents in Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) and Supported Independent Living (SIL) accommodation (known as ‘SIL homes’)
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- Presented by people with disability
- Understand your legal rights
- Learn what to do if you have a problem
We’ll come to you – at home, a library, or your community space.
To book a session or find out more, contact Sandra from VALID by phone: (03) 9416 4003 or email: sandra@valid.org.au
Monthly SDA and SIL peer meet up
VALID’s lived experience team from the Housing Justice Project are hosting an online meet-up group each month for people living in SDA and SIL homes with support from Villamanta
On the Third Monday of each month
Time: 2pm – 3pm
Location: Online
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- Come and share your story with other people that also live in disability accommodation.
- Meet new people, learn, and make new friends.
To find out more or join please contact Sandra from VALID by phone: (03) 9416 4003 or email: sandra@valid.org.au
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