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	Community Housing and Viability
	Community housing operates in a changing and increasingly complex environment. The recent and potential growth of the sector, diversification of business and uncertainty over future funding are just some of the key drivers of change. In May 2001, the Forum held a seminar of community housing stakeholders to consider what needs to be put in place to remain viable in this changing environment. What do we mean by viability? Basically, it means that an organisation can continue to deliver the outcomes that are intended – that it won't fail.
	The seminar focused attention on four key elements of viability:
		Financial viability – the ability to meet all the costs of continuing to deliver the outcomes;
		Organisational viability – the ability to manage, plan and deliver the services that produce the outcomes;
		Locational viability – the ability to establish and maintain the networks and partnerships within the local community needed to deliver the outcomes.
		The viability or sustainability of the asset base of an organisation
	The seminar considered the issues affecting viability that have emerged for providers – both large and small – and for government. Factors such as the constraints imposed by current government policy approaches, lack of resources needed to provide the capacity to respond to emerging tenant needs, new demands on governance, the need to manage the tensions that affect the sustainability of small organisations, and a concern to maintain diversity in the face of greater emphasis on viability were all considered. Participants identified a range of threshold issues that will affect the way forward.
	The Forum has prepared a discussion paper that outlines these issues and considers the implications for the sector.
		Community Housing and Viability: December 2001 PDF Document (28K) Download Here
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		Risk management seminar : June 2006
		Regulation Options for WA and SA : June 2006
		Developing an Affordable Housing System for Australia : December 2005
		Partnering with the Private Sector : May 2005
		Community Housing Responses to Homelessness : July 2003
		Financing Models for Social and Affordable Housing : August 2002
		System-wide structures for Community Housing : March 2002
		Prospects for future supply : July 2001
		Community Housing and Viability : May 2001
		Infrastructure : December 2000
		Developing a Community Housing Education & Training System : July 2000
		Financing Community Housing : May 2000
		Sustainable Communities : March 2000

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