Kylie Burns Associate Professor and Deputy Head of School (Learning and Teaching) Griffi th Law School, Griffi th University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia. Ros Harrington Lecturer in Occupational Therapy at the School of Allied Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University, Banyo, Queensland, Australia. Lump sum damages payments for personal injury claimants who suffer serious and catastrophic injury are common across Australia. One of the benefits of lump sum compensation for personal injury is argued to be the ability of claimants to purchase housing with their lump sum. In this chapter, we focus on whether the expenditure of significant amounts of a lump sum compensation payment on the purchase of or payment for housing is desirable for personal injury compensation recipients, particularly considering the complex interaction between Australian compensation systems, the Australian social security support system and lifetime care and support schemes such as the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)...