National Housing Strategy for People with a Disability 2011 - 2016

4.9 Based on the analysis above, it may be concluded that:• A majority of people with disabilities live in owner occupied homes – it can beinferred that approximately half of these are the homeowner or the spouse of ahome owner, while some are children living in the parental home 18 .• The ability to achieve home ownership is slightly lower for people with disabilitiesthan for those who do not have a disability. This suggests that people withdisabilities who do own their own home may have acquired a disability later in life.• A smaller proportion of people with a psychological or emotional condition are homeowners compared to other categories of disability.• There are fewer people with disabilities in private rented accommodation whencompared with the total Irish population.• People with disabilities are more likely to rent from local authorities or approvedhousing bodies than private landlords.Disability Databases4.10 Data in relation to, inter alia, the housing status of people with certain disabilities, iscollected by the Health Research Board (HRB), in the National Intellectual DisabilityDatabase (NIDD) and the National Physical and Sensory Disability Database (NPSDD). TheNIDD was established in 1995 and has over 26,000 people registered. The NPSDD wasestablished in 2002 and has circa 29,000 people registered. To be included on thedatabases a person must require or use a specialist disability service. It should be notedthat registration is voluntary and consent is required. As the databases are voluntary, theydo not accurately represent the extent of the prevalence of disability 19 . The NPSDDcaptures data on approximately two thirds of individuals with physical or sensory disabilitiesaged 65 years and under. Those over 66 years of age are not included on this database.18There is no direct data in respect of how many people with disabilities who live in owner occupied houses are,in fact, the homeowner. However, it is reasonable to infer that people with disabilities are pro rata heads ofhouseholds or children (young or adult) in these homes. On that basis, it would be expected that 38% ofpeople with disabilities are homeowners or the spouse of a homeowner, and 8% are children (young or adult) inan owner occupied parental home, with approximately 22% being other occupants of owner occupied housing,i.e. parent living with adult child, brother/sister/niece/grandchild of the homeowner, etc.19It is estimated that the NIDD captures details of 90 – 95% of people with intellectual disabilities. People mostlikely to be under-represented on the database are those with mild intellectual disabilities and very youngchildren.44