Housing Choices Australia Annual Report 2018

Futuredirections; Toward2028.

The implementationof theNDIS is somethingnoonewants tosee fail.We willworkcollaborativelyandcreatively withgovernments andpartners todeliver housingsolutions tosupport thisvital reform. Itwon’tbeeasy, but itmustbe done. At the centre of everything we do will always be our residents. No matter how daunting the scale of the tasks ahead, nor how complex the operational barriers we come up against, the purpose of our business is very simple: provide people with access to safe, sustainable and aordable housing. From here, they will be able to access opportunities to enhance their lives. We know that when we do this, our residents will themselves build the kinds of tolerant, stable, diverse and peaceful neighbourhoods in which we all deserve to live.

As we prepare for our second decade, our ambitions are undiminished because we know the demand for our services is only going to increase until the currently dire national state of housing insecurity is resolved. This will take considerable time and unwavering commitment. We look forward to seeing the outcome of the current focus by all state and federal governments on improving housing aordability by delivering real and sustained reform. We hope to witness impact that lasts beyond an electoral cycle, that will allow the community housing sector to deliver aordable houses and pathways to life-enhancing opportunities for those who live in them. By 2019-2020, we hope to be operating under a revitalised National Aordable Housing Agreement. We look forward to the positive impact the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation and the Bond Aggregator will have on our sector’s capacity to grow, to access aordable finance and to build innovative housing solutions in quantities that will make a dierence. This should dramatically reduce waiting-lists for public housing and the number of homeless people living on our streets.

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