Successful Registrations
Registration for community housing organisations is instrumental in driving innovative and long term solutions for the community housing sector. There are three levels of registration: Growth Providers, Preferred Providers and Third Tier Registered Providers. Profiles of organisations that have successfully registered can be found below.
Growth Providers
To date, the following five organisations have successfully registered as Growth Providers:
Access Housing Australia Ltd (AHA)
General Manager: Steph Carlyon
Access Housing Australia Ltd is a not-for-profit organisation that formed after the merger of Fremantle Housing Association, South City Housing and the Milligan Foundation in 2006. As of October 2009, AHA has a property portfolio of 795 units, providing housing for a range of target groups including over 55s, migrants and refugees, youth, indigenous peoples, women escaping domestic violence and others with physical or intellectual disabilities. Earlier this year AHA Ltd was granted the status of Regional Provider for the south west region of Western Australia.
Chief Executive Officer: Mike Brown
Bethanie Group Inc – previously known as Churches of Christ Homes – currently manages 658 seniors units and a range of aged care hostels and nursing homes. Bethanie Housing Ltd (BHL) was established as a subsidiary company of Bethanie Group Inc to develop and manage their community housing business.
Community Housing Limited (CHL)
Managing Director: Steve Bevington
Committed to the provision of affordable and sustainable housing for everyone, the Victorian based Community Housing Limited (CHL) has acquired more than 2000 properties under rental management since opening its doors in 1994. As the first Australian community housing organisation to operate nationally and internationally, CHL brings a wealth of experience to the West Australian community housing sector. CHL has an interest in Indigenous housing and housing in rural and remote areas of Western Australia.
Chief Executive Officer: Kathleen Gregory
In 2006, the Eastern Metropolitan Community Housing Association officially amalgamated with Perth Inner City Housing Association and Northside Housing Association to form Foundation Housing Limited. FHL currently manages over 900 units of community housing, catering for a broad range of target groups. Having over 20 years experience in managing boarding houses, FHL are the second largest provider in Australia of this type of accommodation. Recently FHL established a base in Broome and will develop a range of social and affordable key worker housing projects.
Chief Executive Officer: Stuart Flynn
SCCWA Ltd – a subsidiary of Southern Cross Care WA Inc – operates eight retirement villages in the metropolitan area, as well facilities in Bunbury, Collie and Broome. Although not previously involved in community housing, the parent company has a strong track record in the development and management of seniors housing. Two community housing projects are under development with SCCWA Ltd on land provided by the Catholic Archdiocese of Perth in Embleton and Dianella.
Preferred Providers
Currently there are five organisations that have been registered as Preferred Providers:
President: Peter Knowles
Officially formed in 1951 as the Slow Learning Children’s Group by the parents of intellectually disabled children, Activ Foundation has grown to become the largest provider of services to people with disability in Western Australia.
Chief Executive Officer: David Fenwick
Taking its name from the Nyoongar Aboriginal term meaning “beautiful resting place”, Amaroo’s foundation dates back to the late 1960s. Amaroo focuses on residential aged care and independent living services.
Executive Manager: Leanne Strommen
Dating back to the 1940s, Centrecare has developed a strong reputation for delivering crisis accommodation and community housing. Centrecare aims “to be an example of unconditional care in action.”
Chief Executive Officer: Lynne Evans
Established in 1963 to provide for the care, maintenance, welfare and integration of homeless men, St. Bartholomew’s House Inc runs several hostels to employ a holistic service benefitting homeless men.
General Manager: Rebecca Bowman
Vincentcare has been catering to the needs of people with mental illness, the homeless, the disadvantaged and those leaving institutional care since opening their first house in 1996. Since then, Vincentcare has established itself as a leading housing organisation providing accommodation and “support with dignity.”
Great Southern Community Housing Association (GSCHA)
Chief Executive Officer: Kaz Sternberg
Based in Albany, Great Southern Community Housing Association (GSCHA) provides generic housing for low income tenants, as well as housing for those with physical and psychiatric disabilities. A website link will be provided in the near future.
Registered Providers
Eight organisations that have successfully registered as Third Tier Registered Providers:
Agencies for South West Accommodation Inc
Chief Executive Officer: Neil Hampton
Known within the community housing sector as ASWA, Agencies for South West Accommodation provides Crisis Accommodation across the south west of WA. As well as providing housing services, the Bunbury based ASWA also have various other services targeting the personal development of clients.
Chief Executive Officer: Ian Carter
In the early 1970s, Archbishop Geoffrey Sambell envisioned the development of the Anglican Church’s social services delivery. Anglicare WA is the result of that early vision, which now covers a wide variety of services, including a key focus on community housing.
Chief Executive Officer: Dr Penny Flett
Established in 1901, Brightwater Care Group – formally known as the Homes Of Peace – are one of the largest and oldest providers of residential care for the chronically ill, disabled and the aged in Western Australia.
Bunbury Housing Association Inc (BHA)
Chief Executive Officer: Renate Dehaan
Over ten years ago, Bunbury Housing Association was formed to address a lack of affordable, secure housing in the south west of Western Australia. They now manage properties for a broad range of clientele in the south west.
Director: Martine Pitt
Communicare Inc’s Breathing Space Program provides accommodation and support in order to break the cycle of domestic violence.
Multiple Sclerosis Society of WA
Chief Executive Officer: Marcus Stafford
The Multiple Sclerosis Society of WA provides accommodation and support services to persons suffering from Multiple Sclerosis.
Chief Executive Officer: Peter Sirr
Outcare Inc provides short term accommodation and crisis accommodation to ex-offenders and their families, in order to help them find their feet after time in prison.
Swan Emergency Accommodation Inc (SEA)
Chief Executive Officer: Don Tunnicliffe
Swan Emergency Accommodation Inc provides crisis accommodation and medium term housing, as well as various other services, to clients who are at a difficult point in their life.
