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Definition
A not-for-profit organisation that provides safe, secure, affordable and appropriate rental housing.
Comments
Context:
Community housing, along with public rental housing, is part of the social housing sector and provides housing assistance on a basis which is respectful of tenants rights, including opportunities for participatory management, and constructive of links with community development.
Community housing can cover short, medium and long-term tenancies.
Community housing providers manage the provision of housing assistance and as such are the main source of information about the tenants in the community housing sector.
Community housing providers may include:
- housing cooperatives
- housing associations
- other community service organisations
References
Community Housing Federation of Australia 2004. Our Future in Affordable Housing. Policy Position.
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