Social Housing Plan - Attachments and footnotes
Section 11 of our Social Housing Plan.
Table 21: Key terms
| Key Term | Definition Applied to Current Project |
|---|---|
| Affordable housing | A dwelling available through a housing assistance program that provides for a specified level of below market rent price (for example: public housing community housing National Rental Affordability Scheme shared equity scheme for home ownership). |
| Community housing | Community housing is secure affordable long term rental housing managed by not-for-profit organisations for people on low incomes or with special needs. |
| Community housing provider | A not-for-profit organisation that delivers and/or manages community housing. |
| Commonwealth Rent Assistance (CRA) | A non-taxable Commonwealth Government supplementary payment added on to the benefit or family payment of people who rent in the private rental market above applicable rent thresholds. |
| Crisis accommodation | Crisis and emergency accommodation includes a range of specialist services for people who are homeless at risk of homelessness escaping family violence or in other emergencies. These services are available 24-hours a day however they are temporary and designed to immediately assist people in crisis to stabilise and move on to something more permanent. |
| Department of Health and Human Services | The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is an agency of the Victorian State Government. DHHS delivers policies programs and services for children and families women gender and equality sport and recreation health and wellbeing ambulance services public health ageing disability mental health alcohol and other drugs and housing and homelessness. |
| Director of Housing (DoH) | The Director of Housing is the body corporate established under section 9(2) of the Housing Act 1983. The Director of Housing sits within DHHS and is the landlord of Victoria’s public housing. The Director has powers to purchase develop lease and sell property. |
| Homelessness | The Australian Bureau of Statistics definition states that when a person does not have suitable accommodation alternatives they are considered homeless if their current living arrangement: is in a dwelling that is inadequate has no tenure or if their initial tenure is short and not extendable does not allow them to have control of and access to space for social relations. |
| Household | One or more persons at least one of whom is at least 15 years of age usually resident in the same private dwelling. The people in a household may or may not be related. They must live wholly within one dwelling. |
| Housing need | A household is in housing need if its housing falls below at least one of the adequacy affordability or suitability standards and it would have to spend 30 per cent or more of its total before-tax income to pay the median rent of alt |