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February 2026 – Housing Australia
This submission outlines proposed amendments to the HAFF Round 3 funding and loan documentation to ensure the program remains commercially workable for community housing providers. Faith Housing Australia highlights issues relating to portfolio risk, financing structures, tenancy requirements and construction settings, and proposes targeted adjustments to support efficient project delivery and financial close across the sector.
February 2026 – NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure
This submission highlights how the proposed Development Coordination Authority could streamline statutory input processes and improve development certainty. Faith Housing Australia outlines how targeted refinements could ensure the framework supports, rather than delays, social and affordable housing delivery across NSW.
February 2026 – Commonwealth Treasury
This submission highlights how reform of the National Construction Code can unlock faster, more cost-effective delivery of social and affordable housing. Faith Housing Australia outlines the need to reduce unnecessary regulatory complexity, better enable adaptive reuse and modern construction methods, and ensure the Code is accessible and workable for community and mission-driven housing providers.
February 2026 – Productivity Commission
This submission highlights the importance of stable and predictable GST distribution to support long-term investment in social and affordable housing. Faith Housing Australia outlines how GST settings influence states’ capacity to fund housing supply, homelessness services and enabling infrastructure, and calls for reforms that strengthen transparency, stability and support for housing system delivery.
February 2026 – NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure
This submission highlights the role faith-owned land can play in delivering well-located social and affordable housing across Greater Sydney. Faith Housing Australia outlines how supportive planning settings could enable mission-driven organisations to deliver housing while retaining the community, cultural and social value of places of worship.
February 2026 – NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure
This submission highlights the opportunity to recognise faith-owned land as strategic social infrastructure within NSW’s proposed planning framework. Faith Housing Australia outlines how clearer planning pathways could unlock well-located land for social and affordable housing, supporting communities while aligning with statewide housing priorities.
February 2026 – NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure
This submission outlines how the Statewide Industrial Lands Policy could better enable social and affordable housing where clear public benefit exists. Faith Housing Australia highlights opportunities for mission-driven organisations to deliver housing on suitable faith-owned land near employment precincts and transitional areas, supporting local workers and communities while maintaining industrial land protections
January 2026 – Australian Government
This submission outlines practical measures to scale social and affordable housing delivery by activating underutilised community and faith-owned land. Faith Housing Australia presents coordinated recommendations across housing, social services and aged care portfolios to strengthen housing supply, improve affordability and embed durable national housing reform.
January 2026 – Australian Government Pre-Budget Submission
This proposal outlines strategic Commonwealth investment to develop and demonstrate innovative housing models that prevent homelessness and expand social and affordable housing supply. Faith Housing Australia sets out initiatives to activate faith-owned land, create new housing pathways for young people and older Australians, and pilot modular multi-cohort housing models integrated with community services.
January 2026 - Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission
The submission highlights the critical role charities—particularly faith-based organisations—play in delivering social and affordable housing, and calls for clearer, nationally consistent guidance to support charities navigating complex planning, financing and partnership arrangements.
December 2025 - Faith Housing Australia
This paper sets out a practical framework to scale social and affordable housing delivery in NSW. It outlines five principles to mobilise land, unlock long-term investment and strengthen the capability of community housing providers, enabling the sector to deliver homes faster and at greater scale.
December 2025 – Tasmanian Department of Treasury and Finance
This submission outlines practical reforms to accelerate social and affordable housing delivery in Tasmania by activating faith-owned land and strengthening partnerships with community housing providers. Faith Housing Australia recommends planning reforms, targeted feasibility support and coordinated engagement with faith-based housing partners to unlock infill housing supply and improve the efficiency of existing housing programs.
December 2025 – Supplementary Budget Submission
This paper outlines targeted planning reforms, rezoning support and data-sharing initiatives to unlock underutilised faith-owned land for social and affordable housing across Tasmania. Faith Housing Australia proposes a modest investment to map potential sites, streamline planning pathways and support partnerships with community housing providers, enabling a scalable pipeline of infill housing aligned with the Tasmanian Housing Strategy.
August 2025 – Minister for Housing, Commonwealth Treasury, Housing Australia
This report outlines Faith Housing Australia’s strategic recommendations to strengthen the Housing Australia Future Fund by unlocking the potential of faith-based land and partnerships. It advocates for reforms in funding design, planning support, and financial innovation to enable mission-driven organisations to deliver thousands of new social and affordable homes across Australia.
July 2025 - Inner West Council
FHA submission outlines ten key recommendations to strengthen Inner West Council’s proposed planning amendment, enabling faith-based organisations to deliver affordable housing on land they own. It showcases the faith housing sector’s proven capacity, diverse delivery models, and commitment to inclusive, community-led housing solutions that address urgent local needs.
January 2025 - Homes NSW
Faith Housing Australia’s submission to the Homes for NSW Plan offers insights and recommendations for transformative change in the NSW non-market housing and homelessness system. FHA’s submission highlights opportunities and risks associated with implementing proposed reform priorities and suggests ways Homes NSW can partner with FHA members to shape an effective, multi-provider system.
September 2024 – Treasury
Faith Housing Australia’s submission addresses the urgent need for increased crisis and transitional accommodation, particularly for women and children escaping domestic violence and young people at risk of homelessness. FHA emphasises the benefits of partnering with faith-based organisations with a long history of providing housing and support services. The submission advocates for allocating NHIF funds to CHPs to establish dedicated crisis accommodation facilities.
August 2024 – Senate Standing Committee on Economics
Faith Housing Australia’s submission supports the National Housing and Homelessness Plan Bill 2024, emphasising the need for a statutory basis to address Australia's housing emergency. FHA commends the Bill's recognition of housing as a human right and advocates for governance and accountability structures to ensure its successful implementation. FHA calls for legislative accountability, a whole-of-government strategy, and alignment with other national plans to create a comprehensive framework for housing and homelessness solutions.
July 2024 – NSW Minister for Planning and Public Spaces
Faith-based organisations are keen to play a significant role in providing new, well-located homes to help solve the current housing crisis across New South Wales. Yet, they are hampered by zoning constraints that prevent the use of many sites for integrated faith and housing developments. This submission documents case studies from joint advocacy with members Sydney Anglican Property and the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney.
June 2024 – NSW Legislative Assembly Select Committee
Brief recommendations to the inquiry from Faith Housing Australia based on consultation sessions in 2023 with members on removing no grounds evictions and support for renters living in community housing.
March 2024 – NSW Treasury
Faith Housing Australia's submission urges the NSW Government to invest in an immediate and sustained increase in the supply of social and affordable rental housing and wrap-around supports to break the cycle of homelessness. Additional recommendations include delivering an integrated planning pathway and measures to unlock well-located faith-owned land for housing.
February 2024 – Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure
Faith Housing Australia’s submission calls for the policy to be extended to include land zoned ‘special purpose’ and ‘place of public worship to allow faith communities to develop housing, including social and affordable housing.
The submission also makes recommendations to support infrastructure and housing diversity.
January 2024 - Treasury
Faith Housing Australia’s pre-budget submission to Treasury reinforces the recommendations of our members to deliver a credible and well-resourced National Housing and Homelessness Plan. Measures call for continued investment to rapidly increase the supply of social and affordable rental housing and to provide cost-of-living relief to help people on low incomes and income support meet high housing costs.
November 2023 - Treasury
Feedback from Faith Housing Australia members on the Housing Australia Investment Mandate amendments, including the Exposure Draft and Exposure Statement, to support Not-for-Profit Community Housing Provider growth and ensure the long-term value of investments to deliver community benefit.
October 2023 - Department of Social Services
FHA’s submission lays out a comprehensive strategic framework with actionable recommendations to strengthen governance, housing supply, support for homelessness services, and the role of planning in confronting the crisis.
August 2023 - NSW Treasury
Recommendations for housing policy support proposals to rapidly scale up housing supply, ensure extended tenant support and deliver an integrated planning pathway.
August 2023 – NSW Government Real Estate and Housing Policy Team
Input from Faith Housing Australia members to proposed changes to support NSW’s most vulnerable renters, including removing no-grounds evictions, a new model for keeping pets, a portable rental bond scheme and protecting renters’ personal information.
February 2023 - NSW Election
Citizens across NSW need transformative and courageous policy but also an immediate sufficient investment to rapidly increase the supply of social and affordable rental housing. This campaign was created to ensure that a call for housing justice – which is a human right – was before the candidates ahead of the NSW election.
Legislative Assembly
Response to the Inquiry into Options to Improve Access to Existing & Alternate Accommodation to Address the Social Housing Shortage August 2022
Standing Committee on Social Issues
Access to safe and secure housing is a human right. Older people in New South Wales are
increasingly finding themselves without a home, or at risk of becoming homeless.
St Vincent de Paul Society Submission 2022
Identity of factors that make it more challenging for older people to access and navigate age-appropriate
services.
Salvation Army Submission 2022
Understanding the prevalence and drivers of homelessness for older people.
Wesley Mission Submission 2022
Identity of factors that make it more challenging for older people to access and navigate age-appropriate
services.
Faith Housing Australia Submission 2021
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