Community Housing Limited (CHL) Group of Companies is an innovative and best practice not for profit affordable housing organisation which assists access to, develops and manages sustainable housing for people in need. Focusing on external Marketing, PR and Communications, we are looking for a highly skilled, committed, passionate professional to join our Box Hill Marketing…
Support and lead our team of Housing Officers to deliver high-quality tenancy and property management services in Tasmania. Community Housing Limited (CHL) Group of Companies is an innovative and best practice affordable housing organisation which assists access to, develops and manages sustainable housing for people in need. We are looking for an experienced and passionate…
The Community Housing Industry Association has backed the objectives of the Treasury Laws Amendment (Making Sure Foreign Investors Pay Their Fair Share of Tax and Other Measures) Bill 2018. In a submission supporting the amendment, CHIA contends that the main benefit of the housing-related measures in the Bill will be to facilitate institutional investment in…
The Intake Assessment and Planning (IAP) Worker provides high quality initial assessment and planning services to people experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness and work in close collaboration with other agencies and housing providers. This role reports to Senior Workers and IAP Manager and focuses on assisting individuals and families in housing crisis through…
The Victorian Government’s moves to work in partnership with the community housing industry through a new Victorian Social Housing Growth Fund and Low Cost Loans initiative has been welcomed by the industry’s state peak body. The Community Housing Industry Association Victoria’s (CHIA Vic) CEO Lesley Dredge says, with the waiting list for social housing in…
Uniting in Victoria and Tasmania have a vacancy for their skills-based Board of Directors As well as a demonstrated commitment to the community services mission of the Uniting Church in Australia, we are particularly looking for expertise in the areas of: Community services delivery such as disability, mental health or family services Marketing, media and…
Settlement Services International is seeking Multicultural Permanency Support Program Out of Home Care (OOHC) Caseworker, to be based in Newcastle. Your efforts will see better outcomes for children and young people in OOHC. Responsibilities: Undertake child and family case work including assessments, planning, placement support, monitoring and reviews Develop, implement and review children and young…
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A high-level gathering of planners, designers and architects from around the world has been given insight into the possible development of Melbourne from the perspective of a community organisation and its tenants.
Melbourne-based Housing Choices residents and property team members created a video on their views on Melbourne’s future for the 2018 Living Cities Forum. The forum tackles a number of big questions around architecture and issues facing Melbourne and global cities.
Housing Choices’ video provided a unique opportunity for community housing organisations and tenants to reach the people who ultimately plan, design and build the cities and suburbs we live in.
Bridge Housing’s new A Bridge to Work employment initiative with partners CoAct is already putting residents into jobs.
Cholok is a Bridge Housing tenant who joined the Bridge to Work program in July 2018. She had recently migrated to Australia from Sudan and was looking to find part time employment.
After consultation and review of her work history, we decided to approach an employer with whom she had previously worked on a contract basis. She successfully negotiated another three-month contract with LUSH Cosmetics, working in the production warehouse with an option to extend to six months.
She is very happy to have found employment with them again and we hope to help her secure a permanent role as we support her in her contract.
Cholok is very personable and diligent in her work and is looking to possibly become a supervisor during her new placement as she brings with her experience and expertise from her role last year. Cholok has great potential, and with ongoing coaching and mentoring through her contract, we are hopeful that LUSH will provide her with a permanent position.
-courtesy of Bridge Housing
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) has released its findings into the most visible tip of the housing crisis iceberg – rough sleepers.
The report makes for grim reading, reinforcing the message from Finland that addressing homelessness requires a supply of affordable housing.
Financial difficulties (53 per cent) and housing stress (23 per cent) were the main drivers for rough sleeping for one-time users of specialist homeless services. While 36 per cent of this group needed long term housing, only 6 per cent were provided with it.
The situation of repeat users – ‘cyclers’ – was much worse. Unsurprisingly, housing affordability stress (59 per cent) and financial difficulties (88 per cent) drove them to repeatedly present to specialist homeless services.
Researchers identified five typical pathways into adult homelessness: housing crisis; family breakdown; substance abuse; mental health; and, transitioning from being homeless in youth (‘youth to adult’).
It also found two in three rough sleepers were male (65 per cent), aged over 35, and 19 per cent were Aboriginal.
As reported in The Fifth Estate NRAS, the National Rental Affordability Scheme, was meant to assist the housing affordability crisis. Trouble was it had a beginning and an end, with the end coming way too soon for too many. The first tranche of properties subsidised under the National Rental Affordability Scheme will lose the subsidy…
Moreland City Council, in Melbourne’s inner northern suburbs, is seeking an inaugural Chair for its new entity Moreland Affordable Housing Ltd (MAH). MAH’s core purpose is ‘to provide relief to persons who are homeless or whose life circumstances render them vulnerable to loss of affordable and secure housing, by providing either directly or through partnership…