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Your SDA tenancy rights

Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) is housing for people with disability who need extra support most of the time

If you live in SDA, or a home where daily independent living support is provided, you have greater residential rights in Victoria.

The Residential Tenancies Act 1997 (the Act) changed on 1 July 2024. The changes better protect the rights of people with disability living in SDA or a home where daily independent living support is provided.

Rights are rules about how people must treat you fairly and equally.

Ending your SDA residency agreement:

There are different ways to end the agreement.

This means you must move out because the SDA provider can't use the home as SDA anymore.

This might happen if your SDA provider:
- breaks the law
- doesn't look after your SDA very well
- lets too many residents live in the SDA.
This means you can't live in your SDA anymore.

This could be because:
- you haven't paid your rent
- you have made other people living in your SDA feel unsafe
- your SDA will be knocked down.
If you get one of these notices, your SDA provider must explain what it says in a way that you can understand.

If you don't agree with the SDA provider about this, you can contact VCAT.
This means you don't want to live in the SDA anymore.

You must:
- tell your SDA provider in writing
- include the date you want to move out.
This means that the SDA provider or owner of the SDA has given you a Notice to vacate, but you still haven't left.

If you haven't left 30 days after they have asked you to, they can ask VCAT for help.

VCAT will decide if you have to leave.

If you don't have someone supporting you, your SDA provider must explain what VCAT says you must do in a way you can understand.
A Notice of temporary relocation means that you need to move out of your SDA for up to 90 days.

Your SDA provider must find you somewhere to live during this time.

This might be because:
- you have made other people living in the SDA feel unsafe
- you can't be supported at the SDA anymore
- repairs need to be made to the SDA.
Your SDA provider must contact your daily independent living provider if this happens.

Your SDA tenancy rights

Ending your SDA residency agreement:

Further information

Office of the Public Advocate

Your SDA tenancy rights

Ending your SDA residency agreement:

Notice of revocation

Notice to vacate

Notice of intention to vacate

Possession order

Notice of temporary relocation

Further information

Office of the Public Advocate