Housing Service

No, Community Action Housing Service is not the Department of Housing. We are a community organisation.

The two closest Department of Housing Service Centres are:

• Maroochydore Housing Service Centre: 5352 7333

• Maryborough Housing Service Centre: 4324 8600

No, Community Action Housing Services does not provide assistance with completing housing applications.

• Eligibility and applying for housing

• Forms for social housing tenants

We are able to assist Gympie clients by booking phone appointments with Department of Housing for a Rent Connect appointment.

Community Housing is a form of social housing that is transitional or long term. Community Action Housing Services is a non-profit organisation who offer transitional and long-term accommodation.

• Community Housing
• Apply for Community Housing

The different programs and services offered by Community Action Housing Service:

• Long Term Community Housing
  The Long Term Community Housing program offers longer-term tenancies to people referred from the housing register, for the duration of their need. The rent is set at an affordable proportion of household income.
• Community Managed Housing Studio Units
  The Community Managed Housing Studio Units program provides transitional and longer term housing assistance to eligible people who have been assessed as very high or high needs applicants. The Community Action CMSU properties are furnished and have some communal areas.
• Community Rent Scheme
  The Community Rent Scheme is a Transitional Housing program that gives eligible people an opportunity to stabilise their circumstances before moving to longer term housing. Transitional housing is not long-term housing.
• Same House Different Landlord
  The Same House Different Landlord program is a transitional housing program with support provided to the tenant to assist in managing the tenancy. Community Action Housing Service and the tenant develop a tenancy plan to assist households to gain skills in managing a longer term tenancy. Once the tenant can manage a longer term tenancy, the tenancy and property are transferred back to the Department of Housing & Public Works. This means that the tenant becomes a public housing tenant without needing to move.

Types of transitional housing

Types of community housing

Community Action Housing Services has a program called Community Rent Scheme where we are able to rent properties from private landlords.  We then tenant this property for eligible applicants referred to us by the Department of Housing.

Are you thinking of renting your property? Apply for a 2-year rental lease, backed by the Queensland Government. Click here for more information on the Help to Home Program.

Information about how the Housing Register works can be found here.

Information about how your rent is calculated can be found here.

Information about bond loans and rental grants can be found here.

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