Understanding your Home Assessment Report

All homeowners who registered for the Resilient Homes Fund before 30 July 2023 would have received a Home Assessment Report.

The report included:

• which Resilient Homes Fund programs you could apply for
• resilient strategies for your home
• flood levels for your home
• recommended next steps.

Program options

The Home Assessment Report should have listed the programs through which you could apply for funding.

You could only receive funding under 1 program. If more than 1 funding option was identified for your home, you needed to choose which to apply for, based on your circumstances.

If you were not eligible for a particular program, the report will explained why.

Program changes

We expanded program eligibility so that more homeowners could improve the flood resilience of their homes.

These changes meant that you were eligible to apply for funding through more programs than what was originally recommended in your Home Assessment Report.

Building terms explained

Your Home Assessment Report included building terminology like these.

Habitable floor level

The habitable floor level is the floor that has habitable rooms as defined by the National Construction Code. This generally means rooms that have a minimum height requirement of 2.4 metres. See liveable or habitable rooms list following.

Liveable (or habitable) rooms

These rooms are used for normal domestic activities, and include a:

• bedroom
• living room
• lounge room
• music room
• television room
• kitchen
• dining room
• sewing room
• study
• playroom
• family room
• home theatre
• sunroom.

These rooms DO NOT include a:

• bathroom
• laundry
• water closet
• pantry
• walk-in wardrobe
• corridor
• hallway
• lobby
• photographic darkroom
• clothes-drying room and other spaces of a specialised nature occupied neither frequently nor for extended periods
• garage.

Liveable rooms and areas must be:

• within the building envelope
• fully enclosed
• meet the minimum ceiling height requirements outlined in the National Construction Code for habitable rooms (2.4m) and/or (2.1m) for laundries, bathrooms, toilets, corridors, hallways, pantry and storerooms etc.

Building envelope

The building envelope is the boundary of the main structure of the home. It is the structural barrier between the inside and outside of your home and includes the roof, walls, doors, windows and foundations.

Assessed flood level

See the assessed flood level guidance on the home raise page.