Update 24/03/2020
24 March 2020 Contradictory messages from overseas overnight In UK, PM Johnson has announced radical isolation, no going outside your house unless abs...
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Update from 20/03/2020
20 March 2020 PM and Treasurer press conference: Federal Budget to be delayed to October 6th One person per 4 square metres indoors restriction People...
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COVID-19 and housing providers
With the COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak causing significant community concern and many people losing their jobs or finding their incomes much reduced...
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Update18/03/2020, PM Statement on Covid-19
18 March 2020 At his morning press conference, the PM, Scott Morrison made the following points: Looking at six months for measures, but could be long...
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Community Housing Industry Breaks 100K Barrier
The Productivity’s Commission 2019 Report into Government Services (ROGS) released today shows that rental units managed by community housing provid...
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UDIA CEO Award for Churches of Christ Qld
Good News for families living with Disability – Elderly Parent Carer Initiative by a Queensland Community Housing Provider wins UDIA CEO’s award M...
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Open letter to PM calls for investment in social housing
83 Australian organisations have made an open letter appeal to PM for in investment in social housing. In the shadow of this year’s Mid-Year Economi...
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SA community housing provider awarded first capacity building grant
The National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation (NHFIC) has awarded the first grant from its new Capacity Building Program to Westside Housing...
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COMMUNITY HOUSING LTD APPOINTS NEW COUNTRY MANAGER
Australia’s largest not-for-profit social and affordable housing provider, Community Housing Limited (CHL) has appointed Dr Lucy Burgmann into the o...
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WA’s Aged Pension Recipients may be ineligible for social housing by next year
MEDIA RELEASE Recipients of the Age Pension as their primary source of income may be ineligible for social housing by 2020 unless the State Government...
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Less than 7% of WA State Government’s 35,000 new affordable housing opportunities by 2020 will be social housing
MEDIA RELEASE Tuesday, 6 August 2019 Jennie Vartan, State Manager for the Community Housing Industry Association WA, the peak industry body for commun...
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Successful NRSCH registration for the first Sydney Metropolitan Aboriginal Housing Corporation
NAIDOC Week in Sydney also showcased the historic signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Tharawal Housing Aboriginal Corporation and Hume Co...
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Not-for-profit Community Housing Providers could inject some oomph into the Build to Rent model
The Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA) today welcomed the publication of Build-to-Rent in Australia: Product feasibility and potential affo...
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ATO Long Term Accommodation Market Rent Benchmarks updated 1 July 2019
The ATO has updated its benchmark market value rents with effect from 1 July 2019 Both the Transitional and the Detailed benchmarks have change...
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NHFIC Capacity Building Program Consultant Panel Goes Live
Following lively briefings in five state and territory capitals cities the Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA) today takes the next step to ...
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ACT Government commits to community housing sector growth: An analysis of the ACT budget
The FY20 ACT Government budget makes further commitments to the community housing sector, responding in part to the priority areas put forward by the ...
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