Inquiry into the provision and regulation of supported accommodation in Queensland
Submission No: 151
Submitted by: fF (submitted by Queensland Advocacy for Inclusion) Publication: Making the submission public but withholding your name Attachments:
Submitter Comments:
From: a
Sent: Friday, 2 February 2024 9:19 AM
To: Community Support and Services Committee
Subject: Supported Accommodation resident submission
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Importance: Low
Dear Committee
Please accept the submission from a. who is a resident TS si—SsSCSY below.
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Client name:
Client phone number:
Client email address: not supplied
Client mailing address:
Supported Accommodation facility client is residing in:
Submission
| lived at for 5 months in 2023. | paid $877 a fortnight in fees. They charge $900 if you have
electrical goods in your room.
Food
Lunch was a hot dog on a roll. You were only allowed 1 serving per meal. They were served at strict times and if you missed it you’d go hungry. The tea and coffee was never enough for everyone even in terms of the sugar and the
milk was powdered. | had to buy my own fridge and stock it with my own food out of my own pocket.
\’d rather be homeless than ever go back there.
Management
The management were always on holidays and staff wouldn’t deal with any complaints without them.
Rooms
| shared a room with a bloke who would regularly come home at 3am high on drugs. This made me relapse
eventually - before Micah found me a place 1 i, | was in a mental health facility from drug
induced psychosis, so this really affected me. The rooms were hot and there were no fans.
Bathrooms
Two bathrooms, three showers, two toilets. Quality was awful - things were always broken and really dirty. |
complained to Micah, and they said | could go back out on the streets if | didn’t like it. In the end | left because it was
a horrible place and living in addiction on the streets is better than living in addiction i.
They help me manage my medication here - | take medication for schizophrenia. It’s great. They also help me if I’m
ever short on money by giving me a loan. They also had me back here after | relapsed. | have a lot more money left
every fortnight here because it’s cheaper to live here - about $300 a week. Management here have helped me re establish contact with my son, who I’m seeing soon for the first time in 12 years.
Plans
| want to find my own housing where | can live in my own place but stay connected with my supports at
a. | have a fair bit of money in a trust that is managed by the Public Trustee but they control how much | have
access to. Living here and being clean has been helping because instead of spending it on drugs or alcohol I’m saving
money up. The biggest problem with transitioning to my own place is finding housing because it’s so hard. | don’t
have a great rental history so it’s really hard to find a place that will take you and it takes years to get social housing.
Staff here help you get stuff like housing sorted. Recently the money I’ve saved and the help | get here has meant
I’m starting to get dental work I’ve always wanted done. | will get dentures soon. | hope this information gets to
someone who can do something about places ic i. When | made complaints to the government
previously they said they knew about the place and that it was a good one. Some of the people living there are trapped there because there is nowhere else to go. They are horrible places, but they have no other options.
| want my submission... Published but without any names
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Kind regards
Supported Accommodation Advocate
Queensland
Advocacy
for Inclusion Advocacy for people with disability
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