Faith Housing Alliance is not a housing provider or a direct support service. If you are seeking emergency accommodation, visit Link2Home.
Minto Gardens, Minto social and affordable housing built by member Anglicare Sydney.
Fundamentally Faith Housing Alliance and its members believe that innovation should weave through all that we do, and continual improvements are a critical part of that.
Howard Gardner, Research Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard University
Most innovation is “sustaining innovation” as we seek to get better at what we already do. The faith housing sector has lots to offer in building and innovating from the work the sector has been engaged in for decades. We also learn from the experience and evidence of others.
To us, innovation is not a strategy or a framework, and we don’t want to be constrained saying ‘this is how we innovate’. We believe innovation is about improving what we do but also solving problems for a better future in housing for all, and building stronger, safer, healthier and thriving communities.
We believe innovation is about improving what we do but also solving problems for a better future in housing for all. We believe in building homes that deliver stronger, safer, healthier. more secure affordable rentals and homes, which in turn builds thriving communities.
Our members are regularly winning design awards as they put innovation into practice.
Disruptive and breakthrough innovations often emerge from basic research.
We engage in research partnerships so that scientists on the cutting edge of their disciplines can help us with open innovation – better models, new design thinking, identify emerging problems to solve and propose solutions to affordable housing in Australia.
We also partner with others in research projects to build capacity our across the sector and provide the insights and perspectives of the housing faith sector.
Our member Uniting’s award-winning Bowden Brae Retirement and Independent Living Village, designed using evidence-based research, design lead innovation and multi-disciplinary collaborations.
Disruptive and breakthrough innovations often emerge from basic research.
We engage in research partnerships so that scientists on the cutting edge of their disciplines can help us with open innovation – better models, new design thinking, identify emerging problems to solve and propose solutions to affordable housing in Australia.
We also partner with others in research projects to build capacity our across the sector and provide the insights and perspectives of the housing faith sector.
Our member Uniting’s award-winning Bowden Brae Retirement and Independent Living Village, designed using evidence-based research, design lead innovation and multi-disciplinary collaborations.
The research explored placemaking and community development in multi-cultural high rise and high density urban environments.
The Vertical Villages: Community, Place and Urban Density research project was a collaboration funded through an Enterprise Partnership Scheme between Macquarie University, the Faith Housing Alliance, supported by a grant from the Salvation Army and BaptistCare, and in collaboration with the Together for Ryde Ministers’ Network.
FHA was pleased to join this coalition of housing and social sector peak bodies in a powerful partnership to better understand the recovery challenges ahead of us.
This project sought to address the economic and social costs of the pandemic and natural disasters across mental health, domestic violence, housing security and
child development and welfare.
Smart homes are not just for the rich and tech savvy – at least not when the dynamic and driven team at our Member Good Housing have a say in the matter!
Design innovations accommodate the needs of residents with intellectual disabilities and improve their sensory environments.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Review our news section to read more about the work we’re doing.
Faith Housing Alliance is not a housing provider or a direct support service.
If you are seeking emergency accommodation, visit Link2Home.