Sep 8, 2026 · 57 min · 10 segments
What does the future of disability support look like when lived experience leads the conversation? In this episode of the Steadway NDIS Podcast, Chris Hall speaks with Perry Cross, founder of the…
Perry CrossGuestChris HallHostSo now the other hat that you wear is accessible homes, you know, and the SDA context, right? Yeah.
um we as a company at steadway we we often do the on-site seal right so whether the concierge and the apartments and this and that so we're very close to the the sda scene across new south wales um so we can talk with the lingo um you know and a lot of the followers of the podcast understand this stuff too um so in the context of you know specialist disability accommodation um accessible housing is a key term um people usually think about wider doors, flats, entryways between the rooms, etc.
Sometimes ramps, but really even ramps can be sometimes a bit outdated depending on the technology and the property.
But what, in your opinion, outside of you know, those kind of typical things that people think about.
What truly separates a life-enabling home from one that is just purely technically compliant? Because you've got passing the building regs, so to speak, and all the NDIS standard stuff.
in some ways, a little bit unique to Accessible Homes Australia because when we first looked at the scheme and how life-changing it was, to be honest, what we did was we were looking for a place myself and my co-directors, Tom, Tim and Jason, we were like, oh, let's just go and find a place that, And if we can do that, then we've achieved our objective.
And once we saw what my place was like, which is an apartment in a high-rise, how accessible it was, how life-changingly, you know, the... assistive tech, all these sort of things, but also the location, close to public transport, GPs, all these sort of things.
The way that the SDA scheme was designed because it was aimed to get rid of group homes and the old sort of legacy stock of
When we saw what it did for me, we were like, okay, how can we enhance this? And we realised that if we clustered together a few people living with injuries or disabilities in close proximity, say in an apartment building, independently, and they had their own place, their own home, but we're nearby to other people.
And then we added the onsite shared support, what some people refer to as the concierge.
Then we can really see some life-changing efficiencies because the hardest thing that I always say is...
Not building homes and not, you know, fitting it out, all that sort of accessibility stuff, that's pretty basic, really.
So now the other hat that you wear is accessible homes, you know, and the SDA context, right? Yeah.
um we as a company at steadway we we often do the on-site seal right so whether the concierge and the apartments and this and that so we're very close to the the sda scene across new south wales um so we can talk with the lingo um you know and a lot of the followers of the podcast understand this stuff too um so in the context of you know specialist disability accommodation um accessible housing is a key term um people usually think about wider doors, flats, entryways between the rooms, etc.
Sometimes ramps, but really even ramps can be sometimes a bit outdated depending on the technology and the property.
But what, in your opinion, outside of you know, those kind of typical things that people think about.
What truly separates a life-enabling home from one that is just purely technically compliant? Because you've got passing the building regs, so to speak, and all the NDIS standard stuff.
in some ways, a little bit unique to Accessible Homes Australia because when we first looked at the scheme and how life-changing it was, to be honest, what we did was we were looking for a place myself and my co-directors, Tom, Tim and Jason, we were like, oh, let's just go and find a place that, And if we can do that, then we've achieved our objective.
And once we saw what my place was like, which is an apartment in a high-rise, how accessible it was, how life-changingly, you know, the... assistive tech, all these sort of things, but also the location, close to public transport, GPs, all these sort of things.
The way that the SDA scheme was designed because it was aimed to get rid of group homes and the old sort of legacy stock of
When we saw what it did for me, we were like, okay, how can we enhance this? And we realised that if we clustered together a few people living with injuries or disabilities in close proximity, say in an apartment building, independently, and they had their own place, their own home, but we're nearby to other people.
And then we added the onsite shared support, what some people refer to as the concierge.
Then we can really see some life-changing efficiencies because the hardest thing that I always say is...
Not building homes and not, you know, fitting it out, all that sort of accessibility stuff, that's pretty basic, really.
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