What we do
The Community Housing Grants Program is primarily responsible for the management of capital grants awarded to community housing organisations (CHOs) to build new community housing, refurbish existing community housing stock that may be nearing its end of useful life and undertake maintenance on housing stock in regional and remote communities.
Through the Community Housing Grants Program, more than 70 CHOs, Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations (ACCOs), community housing providers (CHPs) and local governments received funding to deliver:
- over 300 new social housing properties
- over 800 refurbishment projects in 11 metropolitan and regional areas
- essential maintenance on 187 dwellings housing more than 100 community members across remote Aboriginal communities.
In 2023, the Community Housing Grants Program expanded to include all capital grants related to social housing in WA.
Communities is calling for submissions from local governments to help increase the supply and diversity housing across Western Australia. Read the media statement.
Testimonial
St Barts CEO Samantha Drury:
"To say the refurbishments afforded by the Community Housing Grant have greatly improved the living and working conditions of St Bart’s residents is an understatement.
We pride ourselves on providing the people in our services with the support they need to work through their recovery. Part of that support means supplying facilities that allow them to focus on what they need to do to get to that next stage. An example of this are the newly refurbished kitchens in our Men’s Transitional Service, which encourage men to re-engage in activities they were unable to partake in when experiencing homelessness. This is one of the many benefits Grants funded works have provided.”
Announcements
Homelessness Week 2024
