Community Housing Limited is dedicated to providing affordable and sustainable housing for all.
Community Housing Limited is a national and international provider of community housing. It assists people in need with access to affordable and sustainable rental housing in which tenants pay less than 75% of the market rate.
The organisation opened its doors in 1994 and has experienced tremendous growth since that time. It now has a current asset base of $110 million, more than 2000 properties under rental management and is growing by 500 homes a year across Australia. In addressing the worst housing affordability crisis in living memory, Community Housing Ltd has become the first community housing organisation in Australia to have its own in-house Design and Construction division, and is the first to operate nationally and internationally.
Community Housing Ltd is a not-for-profit and a registered charity. It operates like any limited company, but all financial surpluses remain in the company to be reinvested in quality affordable housing for people in need, wherever they may be.
A world without housing poverty.
Community Housing Limited is an innovative and best practice affordable housing organisation which assists access to, develops and manages sustainable housing for people in need.
Community Housing Ltd is dedicated to working with local communities to solve local housing affordability problems.
It believes in creating stronger communities by keeping local residents in the communities that they know and love.
Community Housing Ltd manages its housing to ensure tenants can live affordably, have the security of long-term tenure, and have the right services to ensure they live comfortably.
Community Housing Ltd’s strategic approach to housing is focused on community well-being and improving opportunities for tenants. To this end, Community Housing Ltd has been able to create employment, assist residents to develop skills, and drive local economic development wherever possible.
As Australia’s first housing organisation to operate nationally and internationally, Community Housing Ltd’s business activity is fully aligned with its vision to provide ‘sustainable and affordable housing for all’.
The only limiting factor to Community Housing Ltd’s growth is access to funding from the public and private sectors. The acceptance of community housing as a highly regarded housing option was confirmed in the 2007 Victorian state budget in which funding for community housing rose from $60m over the last four years to $300m for the next four years.
The Rudd Government’s 2008 announcement of the $1.2B National Rental Affordability Scheme in which 100,000 new affordable homes will be delivered over the next 10 years, further confirms the importance of community housing to Australian society in the 21st century.
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