Tag Archive for: Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA)

Community housing’s own benchmarking platform

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Feedback from CHOs has been great and the team at CHIA NSW is already hard at work developing more dashboards for the service.

Community Housing Symposium 2023

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A room overflowing with delegates keen to connect and to embrace the opportunity to discuss challenges the sector is experiencing.

Winners ready to shine at Shelter WA Symposium

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The Innovation in Community Housing Showcase, sponsored by DevelopmentWA will highlight the existing achievements of the sector through presentations.

Quantifying Australia’s unmet housing need: Regional Snapshots

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Estimates based on the 2021 Australian census indicate that over half a million low-income households were not in appropriate housing on census night.

The areas of Western Australia worst affected by housing stress

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The report highlights the importance of a long-term national housing strategy with clear targets to address the housing need right across Australia.

Quantifying Australia’s unmet housing need

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The analysis shows families represented half of the unmet housing needs, an over representation given they onlyaccount for approximately 40 per cent of all households.

Community Housing Peaks Network

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Wendy Hayhurst said the meeting celebrated the diversity of community housing.

Productivity Commission Report: NHHA Review

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The Productivity Commission drew on and cited data and information 25 times throughout the report.

Innovative partnerships to drive supply of social and affordable housing

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This report highlights additional opportunities to build on this partnership enabling government funding to meet a greater proportion of unmet need.

Research estimates the costs of social and affordable housing shortages to society

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The research forms a larger project being funded by several housing organisations including CHIA, Everybody’s Home and Shelter NSW.

Housing dropped from Infrastructure Australia priority list

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In recent years Infrastructure Australia has broadened its focus to social infrastructure, including social and affordable housing.

CHO Vs CHP

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It is clear across jurisdictions both terms may continue to be used interchangeably however Shelter WA has made the decide to align with the CHIA National position and adopt the term ‘CHO’.

National Affordable Housing Alliance

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National Affordable Housing Alliance members are advocating for the implementation of four initial core policies.

National Housing and Homelessness Agreement Review

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Terms of Reference have been developed, and on Tuesday, 21 December 2021 the Productivity Commission released an Issues Paper to provide guidance for submissions.

Australia needs a social housing future fund

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The future fund is an important mechanism to address the ongoing decline of Australia’s social housing stock.

Provision of housing by charities

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The purpose of this Commissioner’s Interpretation Statement is to provide guidance on the application of charity law to housing providers.

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