Scholarships bring a sense of achievement
Housing Choices would like to thank all our residents who provided us access to complete the compulsory RTA gas and electrical and smoke detector checks. Rental providers who entered into a new agreement after 29 March 2021, or have a fixed term agreement of more than five years which rolled over into a periodic tenancy after 29 March 2021, must ensure that: • gas and electricity safety checks are conducted every two years • smoke alarm checks are carried out by contractors on the first year and by the landlord on the second year This is to ensure residents’ safety from carbon monoxide poisoning from faulty cracked heater exchanges, electrical faults and ensuring that there are working smoke detectors. Residential Tenancies Act (RTA) Compliance
Above: Previous Housing Choices scholarship recipients Fithawit and Feruz.
Are you currently studying or have an interest to? Whether you’re completing secondary school, TAFE, University or a certificate or course of interest, every Semester, the Housing Choices Scholarship offers residents the chance to apply for grants money which support residents’ engagement and participation in studies. Successful residents can access up to $500 annually to put towards textbooks, course fees, computers, educational related travel, or any other costs incurred while studying courses, certificates, secondary school studies, and tertiary studies. The Scholarship is open to all household members (i.e. parent, adult). Single Mum, Jessica, has been a Housing Choices resident since 2008 and is currently completing a Certificate III in Bookkeeping and Accounting
at Swinburne University. This is the second time Jessica has successfully received the $500 scholarship support from
Housing Choices. “I first got the $500
scholarship in 2015 when I was studying a Bachelor of Business at Melbourne Institute of Technology. If I’d have known that I could’ve applied every year, I would have,” she said. Jessica then went on to complete her Master of Business Administration at Monash University. After working full-time for a year, she realised she wasn’t doing what she set out to do, which was to be a Certified Accountant. That’s when Jessica decided
to start the Certificate III in Bookkeeping and
Accounting at Swinburne. She applied for the Housing Choices Scholarship in Semester 1 2023 and has successfully received the
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