June 11, 2021
An amazing 211 tenants are celebrating ten years with Foundation Housing this year, and we are commemorating the milestone with them. It was ten years ago that Federal and State Government strategies converged to stimulate the community housing sector by transferring hundreds of properties to Community Housing Organisations in WA. Foundation Housing was fortunate to […]
May 10, 2021
Tammy is a Housing Coordinator with Foundation Housing, based at the Frederick Street Lodge in Broome. She has also been playing for the Broome Towns Football Club for two years, as a handy back pocket. Like Foundation Housing, the Broome Towns Football Club is all about community. Apart from training twice a week and playing […]
February 5, 2021
With rental stress impacting more West Australians and tipped to get worse in the coming months, Foundation Housing has announced the release of 100 new affordable homes for WA’s essential workers through its Elevate by Foundation Housing project. The new Elevate homes are being marketed to public or private sector employees that provide an essential and […]
August 8, 2019
Amid months of negative economic data, the latest interest rate cuts and the clear suggestion that there are more to come, confirms that Australian policy makers are now focused on battling emerging recessionary pressures. One of the key drivers of the slowdown is the end of the housing construction boom and falling house prices. Both […]
April 11, 2019
This article originally appeared in The West Australian on 11 April 2019. What ought to be the purpose of housing policy in Australia and its citizens? What outcome exactly is it trying to achieve? Let’s start with the basics. Australia’s housing system is essentially a private market place of buyers and sellers. On the supply […]
November 27, 2018
Tracey is 49 years old and has lived in a Foundation Housing unit for the last four years. Although she has worked in the past, she’s been without any work at all for a number of years despite trying incredibly hard to find a job. In the meantime she gets by on a meager Newstart […]
October 17, 2017
It’s sobering to consider that around 2.2 million Australians live in relative poverty. What is particularly distressing about this statistic is that it’s estimated 731,000 of these individuals are children. International Anti Poverty Week is being observed around the world this week so it’s appropriate that we pause to consider our failure to ‘fix’ this […]
June 22, 2017
The waiting list for social and community housing properties in Western Australia currently has around 20,000 names on it and it will take someone at the bottom of that list about 8 years to be offered a house by the Housing Authority or a community housing organisation such as Foundation Housing. Clearly there are many […]
April 10, 2017
Foundation Housing manages 406 rooms in 16 separate lodges in Perth and Fremantle in Western Australia and sees first hand some of the common barriers preventing people from moving on from this ‘entry level’ form of social housing. Most lodging accommodation offers residents a small room with a bed, fridge, and cupboard with access to […]
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