In 2000, the NCHF introduced an ongoing national seminar series to provide the opportunity for stakeholders to discuss issues of national importance.

The seminars aimed to identify ways that these issues might be responded to and encouraged wider discussion of them across the sector. As a result, the seminars were only a first step. Following each seminar a discussion paper was produced and circulated to provoke wider debate.

The seminars involved stakeholders in the community housing sector (peaks, Australian, state and local governments, Indigenous and church groups), and when appropriate, individuals with particular expertise in the topic under discussion. To keep the seminars at a manageable size attendance was by invitation only.