Australian Community Housing

📢 We’re closing next week’s 2025 Australian Community Housing Conference with a plenary unlike anything we’ve done before. This finale explores a powerful question: What happens when partners across the housing system step into each other’s shoes? 👟 Through role-swap conversations and real-world scenarios, this session will unpack how misunderstandings form, how collaboration can break down — and how empathy can rebuild it stronger. Featuring senior leaders from finance, development, community housing and impact investment, this session will challenge assumptions and spark new ways of working together. Join: • Emma Spano, CHO, Community Housing Ltd • Jamie Muchall, Deputy CEO & COO, BHC Creating Liveable Communities • Simone Dyer, Head of Mixed-Use Origination, Stockland • Iain Wood, Director, Conscious Investment Management If you care about partnerships, collaboration and cross-sector impact, this is the perfect way to wrap up the 2025 Australian Community Housing National conference. 📅 Wednesday 26 Nov | 2.10–3.10pm | QT Canberra Supported in partnership with Link Wentworth as session sponsor. #Partnerships #Collaboration #ACHCon2025 #ACH2025 #CreatingAHomeForAll #StrongerTogether #AustralianCommunityHousing

Housing changes lives — and no one tells that story better than those who have lived it. 🫶 This deeply moving plenary brings together tenants from Homes North Community Housing to share, in their own words, how secure housing creates stability, opportunity, and community. Facilitated by Maree McKenzie, CEO, Homes North Community Housing. 📅 Wednesday 26 Nov | 1.35–2.10pm | QT Canberra #PowerOfHome #CommunityHousing #LivedExperience #ACHCon2025 #ACH2025 #CreatingAHomeForAll #StrongerTogether #AustralainCommunityHousing

Great work from our member Believe Housing Australia delivering 29 new affordable rental homes for women over 55 in Kilburn and Mitchell Park. The Housing Australia Future Fund Facility (HAFFF) is enabling CHPs nationwide to accelerate supply and respond to critical housing need — and this project shows that impact in action. #HAFF #HAFFF #CommunityHousing #AffordableHousing #Women55Plus #HousingAustralia #ACHMembersInAction #HousingAustraliaFutureFund

🌏 Around the world, leading housing providers are innovating, diversifying and scaling in ways that are reshaping their communities — and next week, they’re coming to Canberra to share what they’ve learned. This session tackles a critical question for our sector: What can Australia borrow, adapt or accelerate from global success stories in housing? From large-scale delivery to organisational resilience and new partnership models, this conversation will bring a wealth of international insight to our national stage. Featuring: • Ian McDermott (he/him), Chief Executive, Peabody UK • Dee Walsh, EVP & COO, Mercy Housing (US) If you want to broaden your perspective and learn from global leaders, this is a must-attend Australian Community Housing National Conference plenary. 📅 Wednesday 26 Nov | 9.00–10.00am | QT Canberra Supported in partnership with KPMG Australia as session sponsor. #GlobalHousing #Innovation #ACHCon2025 #ACH2025 #CreatingAHomeForAll #StrongerTogether #AustralianCommunityHousing

Guiding conversations around some of the most impressive submissions we’ve ever received, our moderator helped bring to life the stories behind 91 nominations from 37 community housing organisations nationwide. 🎤🏡 Her insights and leadership played a key role in shaping this year’s judging process — shining a light on the initiatives and people strengthening our sector. 👇 Hear from our Moderator - Fiona McKenzie, Founder and Executive Director, Orange Compass as she reflects on this year’s ACH National Awards. #ACHNationalAwards #ACHConference2025 #CommunityHousing #CreatingAHomeForAll #ACH2025 #SectorLeadership

Independent voices are reshaping Australia’s housing conversation — and at next week’s 2025 Australian Community Housing Conference, we’re giving them the stage. This standout plenary will explore a defining question: What could evidence-driven, people-centred housing reform look like in Australia by 2028? With major policy challenges ahead, this conversation brings together four of the most influential independent parliamentarians championing better housing outcomes for every Australian. If you want to hear fresh thinking, bold ideas and a collaborative vision for national reform — this is a session you’ll want to be in the room for. Featuring: • Senator David Pocock: Independent Senator of the ACT • Dr Helen Haines: Independent Federal Member for Indi • Allegra Spender MP: Member for Wentworth • Kate Chaney MP: Federal Manager for Curtin 📅 Wednesday 26 Nov | 7.40–8.30am | QT Canberra Supported in partnership with Mission Australia as session sponsor. #HousingReform #IndependentsLead #ACHCon2025 #ACH2025 #CreatingAHomeForAll #StrongerTogether #AustralianCommunityHousing

Another HAFF-supported project underway! Congratulations to our member Bric Housing and partners as construction begins on 60 new social and affordable homes in Margate — a community where the need is urgent and growing. 🏘️ 👏 Conscious Investment Management City of Moreton Bay #CommunityHousing #AffordableHomes #SocialHousing #HAFF #HousingAustralia #PartnershipsInAction #MoretonBay #QLDHousing #HousingAustraliaFutureFund

Homes provide stability — but thriving communities are shaped by people, place and design. 🏠🤝🌿 Next week at the 2025 Australian Community Housing Conference, we’re joined by Blake Reeves, Discipline Leader of Urban Design and Urban Planning at City Collective (US), to explore how placemaking and urban anthropology can reshape the way communities are built and experienced. This session tackles a powerful question: How do we create places that people don’t just live in — but feel connected to? Blake will share global insights on co-design, neighbourhood identity and building environments that foster belonging, safety and community resilience. If you’re passionate about community development, tenant-centred design or the future of placemaking, this is a conversation that will shift your thinking. 📅 Tuesday 25 Nov | 3.30–4.15pm | QT Canberra Supported in partnership with City Collective as session sponsor. #Placemaking #CommunityDesign #UrbanAnthropology #ACHCon2025 #ACH2025 #CreatingAHomeForAll #StrongerTogether #AustralianCommunityHousing

Access to safe, affordable housing is the cornerstone of thriving communities. 🏘️ Insightful reflections from Housing Choices Australia’s Interim CEO Michael Lennon on the urgent need to boost social and affordable housing — and how smarter delivery models can help us get there. Read the op-ed below. 👇🏼

The future is arriving faster than ever — and next week at the 2025 Australian Community Housing Conference, we’re joined by Dr Ben Hamer, sociologist and accredited futurist, to help us understand what’s coming, what’s changing, and what it means for our sector. This session will explore the major forces shaping Australia’s next decade: demographic change, the evolving nature of work, environmental pressures and technological disruption. At the heart of the conversation is one defining question: Are we ready for the future that’s already unfolding? If you’re thinking about long-term planning, sector resilience or how community housing can stay ahead of rapid change, this is a session you won’t want to miss. 📅 Tuesday 25 Nov | 9.45–10.45am | QT Canberra Supported in partnership with Home in Place as session sponsor. #FutureOfHousing #Foresight #ACHCon2025 #ACH2025 #CreatingAHomeForAll #StrongerTogether #AustralianCommunityHousing