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THE SDA HOUSING PODCAST

NDIS PROPERTY AUSTRALIA

The SDA Housing Podcast is a leading voice in the Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) sector, delivering in-depth discussions, expert insights, and the latest updates related to housing solutions for people with disabilities. Through interviews with industry leaders, advocates, and lived-experience voices, we explore policy developments, innovative best practices, and real-world stories shaping the future of disability housing.Listeners will gain valuable knowledge on emerging trends, sector

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39:02

EPISODE 311 - Conflicts of Interest: An Open Letter...

THE SDA HOUSING PODCAST ·

2025/07/06

In this episode, Minh & Debbie discuss an open letter from Katalin Jakus (Hand in Hand Support Coordination) to Ministers, outlining critical NDIS concerns: Unethical Referral Fee Practices Some NDIS providers pay referral fees to hospitals, government staff, and support coordinators.These incentives skew discharge decisions, limit provider choice, and risk care quality.Consequences include "double-dipping" (charging twice for the same service), distorted competition, and prioritising pro...

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26:02

EPISODE 310 - Ask Us Anything #4

THE SDA HOUSING PODCAST ·

2025/07/03

In this 4th instalment of our popular 'Ask Us Anything' series, we dive deep into an email from Andy, a builder from Adelaide who is a regular podcast listener, and has SDA build ideas for his son. We answer his questions and explore his theories. His questions sparked a discussion about the realities of SDA development, from financial considerations to design best practices, and even his theories on where the SDA market is headed. Below are some of the points of discussion in this episode: A...

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34:30

EPISODE 309 - SDA Design Assessments - Tanisha Simunic

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2025/06/30

In this episode, Minh chats with Tanisha Simunic, an SDA Assessor, accredited Access Consultant and OT, about her work, background and her view of the SDA world. Tanisha’s Professional Background and Role Tanisha is an accredited access consultant, registered occupational therapist, and SDA assessor with nearly a decade of experience in the SDA sector. Her career began in occupational therapy, where an interest in home modifications and architecture led her to access consulting. She now speci...

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28:14

EPISODE 308 - LENDING UPDATE: Goodbye Postcodes...

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2025/06/25

Goodbye Postcode Restrictions & Hello Kilometer Radius Big changes (again) are reshaping SDA lending landscape, and in this episode, Debbie sits down with Paul Grant from Axis Lending to unpack the latest finance requirements for NDIS property investing. Late last year in late 2024 we saw significant tightening of eligibility criteria, including new income thresholds ($250K+ household income or $2.5M+ net assets for "sophisticated investors") and geographic restrictions. But as of ...

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34:55

EPISODE 307 - THE FIRE KNIGHT: Bill Kavvadas

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2025/06/23

In this episode, Minh chats with Bill Kavvadas, founder of The Fire Knight. Overview of the Fire Knight The product is an advanced, self-sustaining fire suppression system designed to proactively counter fires by detecting true flames and threats early.Intended for residential use—including group homes and disability accommodations—offering an essential extra layer of safety.Key Product Features and Technical Design Self-contained unit with independent water (or eco-friendly fluid) sto...

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12:42

EPISODE 306 - Doing a “Top 30 Australia SDA Hotspots"...

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2025/06/19

Join Debbie and Denise from NDIS Property Australia’s feasibility team as they explain their groundbreaking nationwide research reports process in identifying the most promising suburbs for Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) development. This project was a custom engagement from a NSW developer seeking a top 30 SDA locations report around Australia. This work took 2 months to finalise, and the 5 internal staff members were quite proud of their collaborative achievement in delivering th...

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EPISODE 305 - NDIS Commission meets different SDA...

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2025/06/15

Recently the NDIS Quality & Safeguards Commission have been going around to meet with several large SDA Providers, and Paramount Disability Homes was one such Provider who welcomed the NDIS Commisson into their office to give industry feedback.In this episode, Minh talks to Kevin Chen from Paramount about their recent meeting with the NDIS Commission. Representatives from the NDIA flew into Melbourne to meet Paramount at their Box Hill office to chat about the SDA sector.Historically, the...

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35:25

EPISODE 304 - HAND IN HAND SUPPORT COORDINATION:...

THE SDA HOUSING PODCAST ·

2025/06/11

This episode is all about Hand in Hand Support Coordination, led by Katalin Jakus, which is a business distinguishes itself from other providers through several unique features and approaches: 1. Person-Centred, Holistic Approach Hand in Hand employs a deeply person-centred and holistic model of support coordination. This means they focus on understanding the whole individual—mental, social, physical, and emotional wellbeing—not just the disability. They prioritize listening to the participan...

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17:38

EPISODE 303 - SDA Unlocked: Newcastle & Wollongong

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2025/06/05

In this episode, Debbie provides a detailed analysis of the Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) supply and demand dynamics in two key NSW regions: Newcastle & Lake Macquarie and the Illawarra (Wollongong) area. She examines current property enrolments across both the broader SA4 regions and the more localised SA3 sub-regions, revealing a critical need to replace older Group and Existing SDA homes with modern New Build SDA properties. While SDA shortages persist across NSW, identif...

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43:42

EPISODE 302 - Media Release: THE AUSTRALIAN - Cocoon...

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2025/06/02

This is a special episode featuring several articles from The Australian newspaper. These articles were randomly selected from 19 news stories published over the past 10 weeks, covering the Cocoon allegations that have unfolded publicly. The audio files merged in this episode are the exact word-for-word content of these five articles, extracted from the website's text-to-speech software. We’re republishing these articles (in audio format) because most people don’t have a paid subscription to ...

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31:33

EPISODE 301 - COCOON: Is this the end?

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2025/05/29

This episode was recorded on 19.05.25. Since this date, more articles have been written and published by various newspapers, leading to the permanent banning of Cocoon’s parent company Horizon SolSolutions, aswell as its ‘nominated’ Director, by the Commission. There will be a follow up of this episode to discuss the fallout across the NDIS from this scandal which has been played out in plain sight for many years in front of everyone. If you want to read more articles about Cocoon, log into t...

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39:34

EPISODE 300 - 3 Years + 300 Episodes + 75,000...

THE SDA HOUSING PODCAST ·

2025/05/27

In this special 300th episode of the SDA Housing Podcast, Minh, Debbie, and Ian reflect on the journey travelled so far — sharing insights about our show, and the process of educating the SDA and NDIS market, to shaping conversations around Specialist Disability Accommodation. We revisit standout episodes, memorable guest speakers, and important people who have supported our brand, to which have created key themes that have defined the podcast. The crew also discuss the shifts in the SDA land...

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24:18

EPISODE 299 - SDA Pipeline Data (March 2025)

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2025/05/22

In this episode, Minh and Debbie dive into the recent quarterly SDA data released by the NDIS on May 16th. They unpack the surprising surge in Pipeline SDA numbers and explain why this jump doesn’t necessarily reflect new development activity over the past three months - but rather stems from projects dating back to mid-to-late 2024. They explore where the pipeline is still growing, the limitations of the current reporting framework, and why the broad statistical areas used in the data fail t...

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30:51

EPISODE 298 - Ask Us Anything #3

THE SDA HOUSING PODCAST ·

2025/05/14

The next episode of our sub series ‘Ask Us Anything' which was once managed by Matt, introduces Sim from our office, joining Minh & Debbie to address some of the most recent inquiries submitted to our team. We regularly field a wide range of questions from prospective investors and developers, many of which offer valuable insights that we believe would benefit our audience. It’s fascinating to observe the depth of industry knowledge reflected in these inquiries, though we also recognize t...

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29:55

EPISODE 297- Unlisted Property Trusts, Syndicates, &...

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2025/05/07

This episode is about the new frontier of SDA - funds, and “fund of funds” and property syndicates and unlisted property trusts. Why? Because we recently saw online marketing on Facebook, by a well known SDA spruiker from Facebook over the years. The definition of a "spruiker" refers to someone who vigorously promotes or advertises something, often with enthusiasm and a bit of flair. This particular person (who we wont name) is now raising capital via an AFSL and investment prospectus via Fac...

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19:02

EPISODE 296 - Lets chat about SYDNEY

THE SDA HOUSING PODCAST ·

2025/04/30

This episode is a casual chat about Sydney, and how Minh and Debbie sees the SDA marketing evolving down in the biggest untapped market for NDIS housing. Minh recently went down for 7 days in Sydney just before Easter to meet up with 3 different SIL providers, and 2 different developers working in different parts of Sydney on SDA projects, and planned expansion into SDA accommodation. He discusses with Debbie the potential of short and medium term rollout of such SDA opportunities, and the te...

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EPISODE 295 - Shrinking SDA Undersupply

THE SDA HOUSING PODCAST ·

2025/04/23

In this episode, Minh & Debbie discuss the macro state of the SDA market in Australia with respect to the supply and demand, particularly the fact that the huge undersupply over the past several years has shrunk, to the point that Australia-wide, supply is meeting demand. However not all is as it may seem when so much of the supply is not in the right areas. They both discuss the data analytics of the information across Australia, and then changing conditions given the phasing out of lega...

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25:29

EPISODE 294 - $10M Case of NDIS Fraud & Exploitation

THE SDA HOUSING PODCAST ·

2025/04/20

In this eye-opening episode, Minh & Debbie dive into the shocking case of a man who went from driving a taxi to amassing a multimillion-dollar empire—with 24 companies, some NDIS businesses—in just six years. Now under investigation by the NDIA and the Australian Federal Police (AFP), he stands accused of fraudulently claiming over $10 million from vulnerable NDIS participants while engaging in deeply unethical business practices. We unpack the disturbing details emerging from the investi...

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33:57

EPISODE 293 - Funding Complexities & Housing Challenges

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2025/04/14

This episode provides a comprehensive overview of the funding complexities of participants, aswell as the housing challenges in sourcing tenants into empty SDA houses, and the strategies to tenant these homes, either from an SDA or SIL perspective. The guest speakers joining Debbie our host, are: Kevin from Paramount Disability Homes, and Katalin from Hand in Hand Support Coordination. This discussion covers roles and responsibilities, challenges in securing SDA funding, leasing processes, ma...

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15:52

EPISODE 292 - The Anchor Tenant

THE SDA HOUSING PODCAST ·

2025/04/08

Welcome to our next episode, with Minh, on a solo recording for this topic - The Anchor Tenant. We have never really spoken before about this very important topic - getting the first participant in as the initial tenant in the SDA house. Minh talks about the importance of getting the first participant to move in, and the challenges in getting multiple participants thereafter once the house is enrolled and operational after the first tenant has moved in. He also talks about some ideas in...

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