Last month was a big month for CHIA as we hosted the 2024 Affordable Housing Development and Investment Summit on 26 – 28 February in Melbourne. Over three days the 400 plus delegates were treated to a series of excellent speakers from the housing, homelessness, finance and property worlds. The first day was devoted to…
CHIA is a member of the Home Time Campaign. Further information below. A coalition of over 80 organisations, including peak bodies, homelessness services, housing providers, unions and others, has written to Federal Minister for Housing and Homelessness Minister Julie Collins seeking urgent action to ‘unlock Australia’s housing system for 16-24-year-olds who are homeless and unable…
Key figures in the housing, property, and finance sectors will come together to tackle the country’spressing housing challenges at the ninth Affordable Housing Development & Investment Summit, hostedin Naarm/Melbourne from February 26-28, 2024. Organised by the Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA), the event provides a platform toshare innovative solutions and strategies in social and affordable…
CHIA is supporting ACOSS in its advocacy to improve energy performance for low income housing, including extending current initiatives to properly finance and fund retrofitting of low income housing, including community housing dwellings. The report calls for the Federal government to inject an initial $2 billion ‘to invest in deep and rapid energy performance and…
The 2024 ROGS housing and homelessness report and statistics were published on 22 January 2024. This statistical release is as near as we have to any kind of official routinely published national dataset of social housing provision, need and performance. However, anyone familiar with this annual output will be aware that, the different State and…
It is good to see the first round of the Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) and National Housing Accord open in January 2024. There appears to be strong interest with reports of 250 eligible groups formally expressing interest in accessing funding. The 40,000 social and affordable housing the initiatives will deliver, together with the additional…
Shelter Tas is the State’s Peak Body for housing & homelessness. We are seeking a Senior Policy Officer (Policy and Advocacy Lead) to join our dedicated team, who will play a key role in providing policy analysis, research, and expert advice to Shelter Tas and its member organisations, to support systemic advocacy on housing and…
St Patrick’s Community Support Centre Limited (St Patrick’s) is a not-for-profit organisation which provides community housing and specialist support services for people facing homelessness. They have proudly been working side-by-side with vulnerable people in the south metropolitan region of Perth for 50 years and currently manage over 350 units of accommodation throughout the metropolitan area.…
Call for increase in social housing
The community housing sector is urging the federal government to double the HousingAustralia Future Fund to at least $20 billion to combat the halving of low-income housingsupply since the early 1990s. A new Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA) analysis of Productivity Commissiongovernment services data also reveals total social housing stock has grown at just a…
Wendy Hayhurst, CHIA CEO, discusses housing and why it cannot be ignored in this op-ed, which appeared in the Courier-Mail on 14 January 2024.
Wendy Hayhurst, CHIA CEO, discusses housing and why it cannot be ignored in this op-ed, which appeared on 14 January 2024.
Wendy Hayhurst, CHIA CEO, discusses housing and why it cannot be ignored in this op-ed, which appeared in the Herald Sun on 14 January 2024.
Wendy Hayhurst, CHIA CEO, discusses housing and why it cannot be ignored in this op-ed, which appeared in the Sunday Telegraph on 14 January 2024.
Housing Australia opens first funding round today to support delivery of 40,000 more social and affordable homes via the Federal Government’s Housing Australia Future Fund and National Housing Accord. From today, the Call for Applications is open for funding from the Federal Government’s Housing Australia Future Fund Facility (HAFFF) and National Housing Accord Facility (NHAF)…