The financial scandal at the heart of the federal government disability housing program|Four Corners

More than $100 million has vanished in a financial scandal at the heart of the federal government’s disability housing program.

One enterprise lured in more than 500 Australians with the promise of glittering high returns and social good, only for the corporate regulator to allege it is one of the country’s most audacious investment scams.

Investors were told their money would help tackle the disability housing crisis while earning government backed, fixed returns. Instead, $78 million is alleged to have disappeared into a web of failed projects, luxury cars, gambling sprees and offshore ventures.

This week on Four Corners, reporter Jessica Longbottom reveals the cracks in the governance of Australia’s disability housing market and exposes systemic regulatory failure.

The government’s Specialist Disability Accommodation program, part of the NDIS, was meant to transform lives, but it was handed to a poorly regulated private sector.

Four Corners investigates how the program, marketed as an ethical investment, has turned into a feeding ground for property sharks and led to streets of vacant homes across the country.

The program asks: is this once in a generation opportunity at risk of collapse amid, waste and shattered trust?

CHAPTERS
00:30 – NDIS Scheme
02:30 – Alammc
05:20 – 600 thousand dollars of savings
07:10 – Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA)
13:50 – Going back to work at 65
18:22 – Building where land is cheap
22:15 – ‘Property sharks’
25:00 – Bruce’s success story
38:55 – Investors looking for help

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