The Pirkanmaa Wellbeing Services County, as the main operator, is implementing a group project together with the wellbeing services counties of North Ostrobothnia and Kanta-Häme. The project aims to develop and share operational models to diversify housing services for people with disabilities and thereby strengthen more independent living for people with disabilities. The goal is particularly to implement the provisions of the new Disability Services Act concerning them, ensuring the promotion of equality and the fight against disadvantage by strengthening the rights of people with disabilities in accordance with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The group project focuses especially on the customer-oriented and participatory development of housing support models that enable independent living and on raising awareness of the rights of people with disabilities among staff and the client’s close network. In the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, we have recognized the equal right of all persons with disabilities to live in the community, to choose their place of residence, and to decide where and with whom they live. Wellbeing services counties must ensure that there are sufficient diverse housing options and a range of home-delivered services available to achieve this goal. The new Disability Services Act does not exhaustively define how housing support services should be organized. In the project work, we particularly want to invest in new and diverse operational models so that housing options and support forms can be organized as individually and appropriately as possible in a way that supports independent living. A challenge identified jointly with project partners is that there are not enough lighter housing options, there are long queues for housing services and it is difficult to find apartments. Young people cannot move out of their childhood homes in the most suitable way for their life stage. The main goal of the group project is the customer-oriented development of housing support models that enable independent living in three different sub-projects: 1. New conceptualization of training aimed at independent living and life management (moving and housing training and family support), housing support, and peer support, especially for young people moving to their own homes. 2. Innovation, experimentation, and sharing of technology and digital services utilized in housing support. 3. Development and experimentation of models that promote functionality and interaction and are inclusive. 4. Ensuring the realization of the rights, self-determination, participation, and privacy of people with disabilities comprehensively in services. The sub-projects of the wellbeing services counties carry out development work based on their own service and population structures. In the planning phase of the group project, it was jointly agreed to utilize the Developmental Implementation operational model based on the methodology of developmental work research. The purpose of using this method is to promote the implementation of planned operational reforms and ensure that old working methods do not struggle against the new ones. In the development and implementation of innovative operational models, work is always carried out in the interface between the current and the new operational concept. During the development project, meetings are systematically held to resolve ambiguities and problem situations arising from conflicts between the new and old logic of operations (Engeström 1995, Pihlaja and Launis 2005, Tolonen 2015). The advantage of the group project of the three wellbeing services counties is the sharing of knowledge and experiences, developing together through comparison, and the possibility of developing diverse new operational models directly implemented and rooted in practice. As a result of the project, the housing support options for people with disabilities will diversify, and thereby the structure of housing services will be lightened. By developing housing support services, the aim is to ensure as independent life and living as possible, so that each person with a disability can live in a housing form that meets their needs with sufficient support. The goal of the project is to involve the expertise of the organization and association sector and expert-by-experience in the development work at different stages of the project. (Translated from Finnish to English with the help of Copilot).