The Community Housing (CH) data collection captures information about CH organisations, the dwellings they manage and the tenants assisted.
CH is rental housing for low- to moderate-income or special-needs households. It is managed by community-based organisations that lease properties from government or have received a capital or a recurrent subsidy from government. CH models vary across states and territories, and the housing stock may be owned by a variety of groups including government.
The data are supplied by state and territory housing departments on an annual basis.
Since 1996–97, the AIHW has compiled CH data from state and territory housing departments on an annual basis. These data help to describe the performance of the current National Housing and Homelessness Agreement and the former National Affordable Housing Agreement and Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement.
The data collection has evolved over time. Changes have occurred to data collection scope, procedures, data items and underlying definitions and concepts.