We build affordable share housing through private investment.

 

At Housing4Change, our Share Homes Living Program creates affordable and safe housing solutions for the most vulnerable, while also ensuring attractive returns for investors.

The share housing model involves dwellings that facilitate several people living together, not only with each having their own private space but also with the security and companionship of others in the house.

We believe that affordable rental properties are a neccessity.

Rent is affordable and capped at 30% of the pension rates for those on Centrelink payments, plus rental subsidy.

Rental leases are automatically renewed each year provided the tenant complies with the house guidelines. This offers secure, long-term and whole of life tenancies, while also allowing an easy exit if someone needs to move.

Solar power and water tanks are also included, and put under a joint scheme across all H4C homes, thus keeping living costs low.

 

Our Priorities

  • Safety.

    Our homes are built with safety in mind and will have deadlocks on all external doors and security screens on all windows.

  • Privacy.

    Tenants each have their own private room with an ensuite, plus space for a lounge, jug, microwave, and television. Rooms also each have a separate entrance and a private courtyard so residents can enjoy their own space.

  • Community.

    Common areas allow space for connecting with fellow tenants and include a communal garden and alfresco entertainment area.

  • Health & Wellbeing.

    We build houses in appropriate environments using materials and design features that contribute to physical health and wellbeing.

  • Eco-Friendly.

    We seek to use low embodied energy materials where possibly, with wood being the preferred building material (100% renewable, stores CO2 and is easy to use).

  • Sustainability.

    Quality claddings, paints, floor coverings and interior linings will be slected, to ensure a high property value and a low cost of maintenance.

We have a Commercial Mindset

 

We know that our model has to keep adapting to meet the changing economics of investment.

We have capability both to build houses and units, as well as to buy secondhand homes and modify them to meet the needs of our tenants and investors.

We are excited about the opportunities this approach brings, working closely together with our altruistic investors and our most vulnerable communities to develop houses that become homes, using the power of savy investments.

Due to the current explosion of the real estate market we will be pursuing our regional policy as a priority.

The shortage of materials and trades will restrict us starting on our new builds well into 2022.

The policy is that we purchase existing properties simply so that women can be housed immediately and actually have somewhere to live now!

Whilst all of our new builds will comply with our high level of specification we cannot sit by and watch!

The properties purchased will be on large blocks of land that will allow us to add second dwellings later after things settle.

This is not possible in the city and suburbs.

The returns on these projects will be at the higher end of the market as the costs are generally lower the urban areas.