The Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA) congratulates Anthony Albanese and the Australian Labor Party on Saturday’s election victory. “We look forward to working with an Albanese Government over the next term to tackle systemic housing unaffordability across Australia” said Wendy Hayhurst, CHIA’s CEO. CHIA fully supports the new Government’s pre-election housing commitments, including establishing an…
Housing sector peak bodies representing low-income households and community housing providers have welcomed today’s policy announcements by the Australian Labor Party as a timely recognition of the urgent need to tackle intensifying housing unaffordability. The media focus has been on the Help to Buy shared ownership scheme to assist lower and moderate-income households get on…
The National Affordable Housing Alliance (NAHA) – a unified group of peak building, property, community housing, social services, union and industry superannuation funds, are calling on all sides of politics to commit to an Affordable Housing Working Group Mark 2 to deliver innovative funding solutions to tackle Australia’s worsening housing crisis. This would build on…
The Community Housing Industry Association and a consortium of private and public sector partners have commenced the development of an industry specific environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting standard, putting Australia at the forefront of ESG reporting for the sector globally. Apart from the UK, Australia will be the first country to develop a community…
Read about CHIA’s election priorities in its recently released 2022 Election Platform: Housing Our Community
This article first appeared in CHIA’s eNews, April 2022 Since 2014, when Melbourne based community housing organisation, Launch Housing founded HomeGround Real Estate agency, there has been a steady increase in the number and geographical range of social enterprise real estate agencies. The HomeGround ‘brand’ itself has expanded with CHC operating an agency in Canberra…
The Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA) is calling for all parties to make crystal clear how they will deliver safe, secure and affordable housing for Australians who are priced out of the housing market, wondering how they can afford sky rocketing rents, or paying huge energy bills because their home is so poorly insulated. “Over…
The Federal Budget needs to go beyond loans and directly invest in key infrastructure- social and affordable housing Increasing the government guarantee for the National Housing Finance and InvestmentCorporation (NHFIC) by $2 billion is a welcome step from the Federal Government, but onlydirect investment in social and affordable rental housing would create homes for the…
Homes for Homes is an innovative, sustainable source of funding dedicated to increasing the supply of social and affordable housing, so those on the margins will have a place to call home. Homes for Homes raises new, private funding and grants it to community housing providers to tackle the lack of social and affordable housing.…
Media Release A majority of voters in the battleground seat of Bass believe the federal government has failed to confront the housing rental crisis, with new opinion polling showing people want greater investment in social and affordable housing, amid skepticism that first home owner grants can fix the problem. The Everybody’s Home campaign is today releasing the…
Media Release A majority of voters in the seat of Longman believe the federal government has failed to confront the housing rental crisis, with a new opinion poll showing people want greater investment in social and affordable housing, amid skepticism that first home owner grants can fix the problem. The Everybody’s Home campaign is today releasing the…
Media Release A majority of voters in the federal seat of Gilmore believe the federal government has failed to confront the housing rental crisis, with a new opinion poll showing people want greater investment in social and affordable housing, amid skepticism that first home owner grants can fix the problem. The Everybody’s Home campaign is today releasing…
CHIA Media Release The Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA) congratulates the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation (NHFIC) on its second State of the Nation’s Housing Report. Since the demise of the Housing Supply Council, Australia has lacked the succinct digest of housing data, necessary to inform both government and industry responses to housing need.…
Media Release The National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation (NHFIC) today released its flagship ‘State of the Nation’s Housing 2021–22’ research report. First introduced in 2020, the State of the Nation’s Housing is NHFIC’s flagship research report. It provides analysis into housing demand and supply across Australia, as well as long-term projections, with a view…
A unified alliance of peak property, building, community housing, social services, union and industry superannuation groups is proposing a suite of new policy measures targeting Australia’s worsening housing crisis. If implemented by the Australian Government, the policy options proposed in a landmark new paper released today could deliver 11,150 to 14,950 additional social and affordable…
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