The Community Housing Division administers a wide range of programs to increase the resources available for community housing across the State. The main programs are:
Community Housing Assistance Program (CHAP) provides the capital component of general accommodation for general and supported community housing.
Community Housing Leasing Program (CHLP) provides subsidies to headlease properties from the private rental market to provide affordable long term housing.
Crisis Accommodation Program (CAP) assists people who are homeless, or at risk of becoming homeless and are in crisis. Properties are purchased, headleased, renovated, or upgraded and allocated to non-government organisations to manage.
The Department of Community Services funds support services under the auspice of the Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP).
‘My Place’ Homelessness Initiative helps homeless people move from the street or crisis accommodation into independent living by providing secure long-term accommodation linked to support services.
Port Jackson Supported Housing Program (PJSHP) provides supported housing to people who are otherwise unable to maintain a tenancy either in social housing or the private rental market.
Social Housing Subsidy Program (SHSP) is a mixed-income model of housing support for tenants with very low, low and moderate incomes. It consist of 255 properties that were acquired by Department of Housing with a 20-year interest-only loan made by the Commonwealth and State governments.
Long Term Leasehold Program (LTLP) provides subsidies to community housing organisations to headlease properties from the private rental market on a long-term basis.
Partnerships In Community Housing (PICH) promotes cost-effective partnerships with not-for-profit organisations such as religious, charitable, non-government, and local government organisations that have a capacity to commit a
Boarding house relocation program (BHP) provides capital properties and leasing subsidies to housing and support organisations.
Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative (HASI) provides community based accommodation where each client lives in his or her own home and where the provision of individual support is provided makes a tenancy sustainable. HASI is a joint initiative between the Department of Housing and the Centre for Mental Health.
Private market housing services were developed to help people eligible for community housing to rent privately where this is appropriate. Some of the products that have been developed to support this are the Tenancy Guarantee program, My Place and Rentstart.
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