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)…
As 2023 ends, CHIA would like to take a moment to recognise the incredible work of its members, alongside their support and government partners, to provide accommodation and services to some of the most vulnerable people in the community. We acknowledge that the past year hasn’t been easy for many, with the cost and availability…
Bridge Housing have recently released an online impact report, available to view here. As well as being at the forefront of online impact reporting, Bridge are one of the first, if not the first, CHOs to publish their scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions in their impact report, in line with the CHIA ESG standard.…
About Us CHIA NT is the regional committee for community housing organisations who are members of the Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA) and operate in the Northern Territory. CHIA’s Region Director, Northern Territory is Karen Walsh, CEO Venture Housing. The steering group for CHIA NT includes: Resources Contact Us For information on CHIA NT, please…
The Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA) has strongly endorsed theCommonwealth’s latest steps to deliver new social and affordable homes across Australia withthe announcement applications will soon open for funding under the Housing Australia FutureFund (HAFF) and the National Housing Accord. Wendy Hayhurst, Chief Executive of CHIA, said: “This is a significant first step. TheCommonwealth’s commitment…
Together with the Building Communities consortium, Community Housing (Vic) Ltd (CHVL) is excited to partner with the Victorian Government on its Ground Lease Model 2 project in Melbourne that will deliver 1,370 brand new modern and energy efficient homes across four sites in South Yarra, Prahran, Hampton East, and Port Melbourne. The project was recently…
The new and improved community housing benchmarking service, House Keys 2.0, is now live and fully operational! House Keys helps CHOs provide better services for tenants by understanding in detail where your services are working well and where there’s room for improvement, compared to similar organisations. It also helps demonstrate the performance of the sector…
The Community Housing Industry Association participated in the NSW Productivity Commission’s housing symposium ‘Density that works’ held at the NSW Parliament on 20 November. The symposium brought together over 120 representatives from the private sector, local councils, government agencies, and universities to consider the topic of housing density, the associated social, economic and environmental benefits,…