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- Category: Articles
- Supporting connection, health and dignity through Hunter Homeless Connect Day
- How does emergency housing work
- Social housing eligibility in Australia explained
- Delivering Community Hubs: Home in Place’s Methodology
- Why is affordable housing important?
- Types of homelessness in Australia
- How homelessness affects the community
- Homelessness and Healthcare
- Guide to the crisis payment in Australia
- What causes homelessness?
- Youth homelessness in Australia
- The difference between social housing and affordable housing
- Homelessness in Australia
- Can I rent my house to NDIS participants?
- Your simple guide to the SDA Design Standard
- NSW Water Usage Charges Policy
- What is Housing Pathways?
- Five Steps for Cyber Security
- Accessing and navigating the My Place Portal
- Why we ask security questions
- Guide to Transitional Housing
- What is Social Housing?
- What is the Housing Australia Future Fund – HAFF?
- What is the NSW Social and Affordable Housing Fund?
- Tenant Advocacy Services | Who are they and what do they do?
- Guide to building NDIS housing
- Investing in NDIS Housing
- What is Rent it Keep it? | FAQs
- How long are the social housing wait times? | FAQs
- How do I appeal a decision? | FAQs
- What is Centrepay? | FAQs
- How to become an affordable housing developer in Australia
- Category: FAQs Videos
- Category: Handy Household Hints
- How to remove, kill and prevent mould | Handy Household Hints
- How to maintain a sliding screen door | Handy Household Hints
- How to clear a blocked drain | Handy Household Hints
- How to fix a stuck door lock | Handy Household Hints
- How to fix kitchen hinges and handles | Handy Household Hints
- How to replace vertical blind hangers | Handy Household Hints
- How to repair a hole in plasterboard | Handy Household Hints
- Category: Latest News
- Home in Place honoured with two Australian Business Awards
- Home in Place selected to deliver landmark affordable housing project in Newcastle
- Gardens flourish in our latest Green Thumbs round
- Major national investment signals new momentum for social and affordable housing
- The Exit Generation
- Christy Gillin wins national Future Leader Award
- Home in Place backs global declaration to protect aid workers
- Green Thumbs returns for spring
- Mental Health Month | Small Steps, Big Difference
- Home in Place celebrates success at AHI Brighter Future Awards
- Home in Place to install solar on 427 homes with $3 million funding
- Housing must be recognised as vital economic infrastructure
- Home in Place finalist in Business Hunter Awards
- Big turnout for Broken Hill Community Day
- Home in Place named finalist in MidCoast Business Awards
- Changing of the guard at Home in Place
- Welcoming the formation of Australian Community Housing
- Tom Hall, a decade of dedication to tenant voice
- Home in Place at the 2025 NSW Housing Summit
- NSW leaders call for urgent action on housing at Community Housing 2025 conference
- Green Thumbs initiative grows strong roots
- United for the right to a home | Home in Place backs Global Housing Charter
- You’re Invited | 2025 Tenant Forums
- Morning tea brings tenants together with health and support services
- Community pantry celebrates a year of giving in Broken Hill
- Labor and the Coalition don’t want housing to be more affordable. They want you in more debt.
- Home in Place joins key meeting on PNG’s development priorities
- Home in Place Green Thumb Funding EOI
- Government must step up to solve Australia’s housing crisis
- Home in Place Launches One in Ten Target
- One hundred tenants awarded in inaugural First Aid Scholarships Initiative
- Home in Place providing refuge for women and children
- Time to shine and celebrate your story
- Hunter Region leads the way with Australia’s first regional Voluntary Local Review
- Home in Place First Aid Scholarship
- Repurposed Stockton Centre to provide housing for vulnerable families
- OzHarvest partnership reaps rewards
- Christmas and New Year opening hours
- Urgent funding boost required to address growing crisis
- Earn while you learn in 2025
- The New Faces of Homelessness
- First Nations Household Crowding: Research and recommendations
- On a needs basis: Social housing, support and dire straits
- Home in Place is the Hunter’s most outstanding community organisation
- Brand Management Award one of three Australian Business Awards
- Community housing chief’s 20 years of service
- New pilot program helps tenants to be handier around the home
- Jamieson achieves historic silver medal at Paris 2024 Paralympics
- Home in Place is a finalist in the 2024 Hunter Business Awards
- Home in Place partnership delivers short-term assistance and long-term solutions
- NSW Government announces Portable Rental Bonds Scheme
- Final step for the Home in Place rebrand
- NSW Government announces modular social housing trial
- Home in Place partners with Fiji Public Rental Board on peer-to-peer learning exchange
- Home in Place Submission to Everybody’s Home People’s Commission
- Breakfasts fuel Mid North Coast kids for school
- Community pantry opens at the Broken Hill 123 Hub
- Home in Place supported the 2024 Street Count
- Taree tenants come together for big clean up
- Home in Place keen to secure share of Housing Australia Future Fund
- Award for Home in Place Customer Service Officer Coordinator
- University of Newcastle MBA students hone strategic consulting skills with advice on Home In Place international strategy
- Feona shares her vision of connection and the importance of place
- Home in Place staff gain skills in supporting hoarders
- State Budget | NSW Government must urgently invest in new social and affordable housing
- Home on Place wins at national sustainable housing awards
- Home in Place recognised as an outstanding community organisation
- Home in Place’s 2022/23 SDA Report Card
- Inaugural Tenant Expos a Success
- Home in Place launches new Reconciliation Action Plan
- Acute shortage of rental housing is producing staggering rental increases
- Hunter social and affordable housing project up for two national housing awards
- New specialist disability homes for Central Coast
- NSW needs federal help to tackle social housing shortage
- Surf’s up for female Home in Place tenants
- Home in Place helps tenants with money matters
- Mid North tenants benefit from new partnership
- Family stays together thanks to Home in Place
- Home in Place retains gold status in NSW Government business sustainability program
- MPs urged to confront the community housing crisis ahead of state election
- Home in Place tenants celebrate Christmas
- Award for Cessnock Housing Access Officer
- International Day of People with a Disability | James’ Story
- Home in Place wins GreenSmart Sustainable Home of the Year
- Earn while you learn
- Church volunteers help The Meeting Place Thrive
- New CEO announced for Home in Place
- Indigenous garden with environmental twist
- Social and affordable housing complex three-time finalist in housing awards
- Call for motorbike riders to Ride for the Stars
- Sarah clocks up the miles for Home in Place residents
- Café Connect gives people with disabilities employment opportunities
- New book shows Deep Place method can help solve social and economic crises
- SDA gives sons independence and parents time for themselves
- Home in Place wins Outstanding Community Organisation Award
- Home in Place three times finalist in Hunter Business Awards
- Hunter Homeless Connect Day Back After Two Years
- Newcastle sisters’ scholarship to help local kids
- Welcome home Edwin
- Investing in Disability Accommodation
- Specialist Disability Accommodation for people trapped in hospitals and aged care
- 2022 AHI Australasian Brighter Future Awards
- Be Mindful of Mould
- Home4Life Solar Project
- A New Chapter for Compass
- Compass Convenes Online Urban Thinkers Campus
- Category: Uncategorized
- Home in Place Shines at National PowerHousing Awards
- Jan 22 – June 22 Report Card for SDA
- Grow a Star Scholarship applications extended
- Accommodation Vouchers
- Marginal electorates want action on housing
- BBQ grant helps Compass better engage tenants and community in Broken Hill
- Compass offers hassle free rental to private property owners
- Compass supports call for 25,000 social housing dwellings in Federal Budget to stem housing crisis
- Cadetship for Compass Tenants
- Compass Housing a big winner at 2021 AHI jurisdictional Brighter Future Awards
- Queensland Specialist Disability Accommodation complete
- Together Home expanded to support more people sleeping rough
- Strong Growth for Compass Housing – Annual Report Released
- Greater Housing Options for Adamstown
- Climate change: What has it got to do with the housing sector?
- More Australian Business Awards for Compass
- Housing Timebomb Needs Federal Fix
- Highlights from the NDIA 2021 SDA Market Summary
- Compass a finalist in 2021 Hunter Business Awards
- Digital Storytelling Workshops Huge Success
- NAIDOC Week 2021 | Heal Country!
- Compass Real Estate Engagement Workshops
- Social and Affordable Housing Reaches New Heights in Wickham
- Compass partners with investLogan on disability housing project
- Compass Housing Services strong despite challenging year
- A Garden for the Senses on the Central Coast
- Strategy Welcome but Housing is Available | Lisa Tierney
- Sensory garden helps residents with visual disabilities enjoy their new home
- Compass builds its first sensory garden in a specialist disability group home in the Hunter
- New home for vulnerable people in Wallsend
- Specialist Disability Accommodation helps people live in the community
- Compass Housing property maintenance facility to provide local jobs
- Minister Visits New Specialist Disability Group Home
- Compass Housing Services joins Hunter region SDG task force
- Compass Secures Together Home Funding
- Compass welcomes Queensland’s $267M Building Stimulus Package
- Specialist disability accommodation changes lives but it needs to be in people’s NDIS Plan
- Homebuilder Scheme not as effective as social housing builds to boost jobs
- Compass Housing Welcomes National Cabinet Focus on Housing
- New, expanded report shows rental stress pre-COVID – need for housing reform
- Compass Housing Services Supports People Experiencing Homelessness during COVID-19
- New report shows growth in SDA housing
- Specialist disability housing is one way to get young people out of aged care
- Compass Housing welcomes grant for community hub in Weston
- Compass Housing lodges submission to DFAT International Development Review 2020
- Michelle Faithfull named as Newcastle’s 2020 Citizen of the Year
- Survey Shows Tenants Satisfied with Compass Housing
- Compass Aligning Strategic Planning with Agenda 2030
- Joint release NSW Government & community housing sector celebrate management transfer of 14,000 Tenancies
- Compass supports Hunter Homeless Connect Day
- Compass Housing to deliver investLogan’s Marsden housing project
- Compass Housing gets gold for sustainability
- New provider for 1000 local social housing tenants from today
- Compass Housing joins Plastic Police®
- Professor Caroline McMillen joins Compass Housing board
- Hunter Residences Redevelopment Commences
- Partnership brings affordable housing to Wickham
- Hunter-based Compass Housing expands into Sydney with tender win
- Home4Life to take on group homes in Hunter region
Specialist Disability Accommodation
- Cessnock NSW GT14991
- North Albury NSW GT16523
- Bellbird NSW GT16496
- Winter Valley VIC GT15122
- Bundall Qld GT14634
- Deagon QLD GT14623
- Jewells NSW GT15614
- Victoria Point QLD GT16275
- Shellharbour NSW GT12273
- Beveridge VIC GT15662
- Beveridge VIC GT15671
- Mambourin VIC GT15637
- Mount Hutton NSW GT12171
- South Penrith NSW GT15443
- South Penrith NSW GTA007
- Charlestown NSW GTA004
- Tenambit NSW GT13266
- Cessnock NSW GT14868
- Delacombe VIC GT15120
- Alfredton VIC GT15039
- Cessnock NSW GT14295
- Aruma: Armidale NSW 2380-1-SIL
- Aruma: Westdale NSW 2340-2-SIL
- Aruma: Gunnedah NSW 2380-1-SIL
- Aruma: Armidale NSW 2350-3-SIL
- Aruma: Quirindi NSW 2343-2-SIL
- Aruma: Clunes NSW 2480-2-SIL
- Edgeworth NSW GT15263
- East Maitland GT12002
- Marsden QLD GT67890
- Collingwood Park QLD GT14223
- Nowra NSW GT13985
- Lambton NSW GT12056
- Fern Bay, NSW GT12008
- Corlette NSW GT11984
- Bomaderry, NSW GT12267
- Maryland NSW GT12032
- Belmont NSW GT12140
- Gymea NSW GT12309
- Lake Albert NSW GT12315
Stories
- Roberts story - A life of giving
- From two houses to one happy home
- Finding community, confidence and a new beginning
- A new beginning in a supportive home
- Max is living life on his terms
- Glen is finding balance through bonsai
- From Affordable Housing to homeownership
- Andrew's Story
- Maree knits for kids in hospital
- Right support helps Michael rebuild his life
- Al is living his best life
- Jo’s future is bright after move from aged care to SDA
- Michelle's story - Hope never lost
- SDA home helping Jamieson with her Paralympic dream
- SDA home means Tania is living with her family, not in aged care
- Kelly is rebuilding and paying it forward
- Kristy turns her life around
- SDA home allows mum and daughters to stay together
- Tina's Story
- Ralph's Story
- Nathan loves living in social housing in Thornton
- Jessica's life is back on track
- Out of hospital and into an SDA forever home
- New home is changing Alison and her son’s life
- Maggie makes her SDA apartment a home
- Affordable Housing lifeline for Maree
- Alternative pathway to disability housing for Janis
- Elaina advocates for others
- Family stays together
- Robyn's Story
- Working with Aboriginal Housing Office to give sisters and their kids places to call home
- Kevin's Story
- James and Elyse
- Danielle's Story
- Paul's Story
- Assistive technology helps Corey live independently
- Lenny Steele
- Cameron, Byron, Robyn and Trevor Moody
- Rob and Helen
- Jacqueline
- Elaina - Tenant and Cadet
- Darren
- Jamie-Lee and Samantha
- Hope's castle
- Jake
- Kristie
- Frankie | Aboriginal Housing Tenant
- Lynda and Colin | Affordable Housing
- Casey | Together Home
- Giant Mural Project
Our People
- Kwesi Addo
- Paul Hughes
- Jennifer Roberts
- Jennifer Leslie
- Emeritus Professor (Hon) Caroline McMillen AO FAHMS
- Darlene Perks
- Josephine Adlam
- Lyndall Robertshaw
- Lisa Evans
- Ben Iosefa
- Kent Chalmers
- Bernadette Pinnell PHD MURP
- Professor Dave Adamson
- Debbie Bradfield
- Sam Gorman
- Martin Kennedy
Events
- Broken Hill tenants Christmas party
- Taree Christmas Breakfast
- Let's Celebrate Christmas at The Meeting Place 2025
- Brisbane Christmas Lunch
- MerryFest 2025
