UniSA Business, University of South Australia, Adelaide 5000, Australia.
School of Architecture and Built Environment, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Sep 7;17(18):6512. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17186512.
Persons with a disability are at a far higher risk of homelessness than those without. The economic, social and health challenges faced by disabled people are addressed, in Australia, by the recently implemented National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Using nationally representative, longitudinal household panel data, we construct the Index of Relative Homelessness Risk (IRHR) to track how the risk of homelessness for disabled persons has changed since the introduction of the NDIS. We find that, overall, fewer persons with a disability face moderate risk of homelessness but that many more face high risk. We conclude that the NDIS has not effectively protected disabled people from the risk of homelessness. We reflect on the implications of these findings for policy interventions.
残疾人比非残疾人面临更高的无家可归风险。澳大利亚最近实施的国家残疾保险计划（NDIS）解决了残疾人士所面临的经济、社会和健康挑战。我们使用全国代表性的纵向家庭面板数据构建相对无家可归风险指数（IRHR），以跟踪自 NDIS 实施以来残疾人无家可归风险的变化情况。我们发现，总的来说，面临中度无家可归风险的残疾人人数有所减少，但面临高度无家可归风险的人数却有所增加。我们的结论是，NDIS 并没有有效地保护残疾人免受无家可归的风险。我们对这些发现对政策干预的影响进行了反思。
