• Immediately begin construction of new builds and retrofitting of existing builds to increase the supply of social housing to the levels required to address both listed and projected demand of people who are unsuited to or unable to live in the private rental market without undue hardship. [...] • Those properties that do not meet needs require the development of a comprehensive plan and funding for updating and redesigning through a process of co-design with people with disability and their representative organisations, to ensure the models meet their housing and accessibility needs. [...] • Federal Government take a leadership role in ensuring all state and territory governments commit to a program to retrofit and modify a percentage of existing social housing to a minimum accessibility threshold, to increase the supply of secure, affordable, and accessible housing over short to medium-term timeframe for people with disability. [...] • Establish an independent body to review all social security payments to above the recognised poverty line with annual indexation to a minimum of the growth of CPI, ensuring they are sufficient to enable all people to live with dignity and to fully participate in community, social, and economic life. [...] • As a matter of critical urgency, increase income support payments – in particular, the Disability Support Pension and JobSeeker Allowance (for those with Mutual Obligations Removed) – to bring the standard of living of households with members with disability in line with the standard of living of similar households without disability.
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