Information supplied by Housing Tasmania cites the community housing sector in Tasmania provides an important alternative to private and public rental housing. It contributes to the overall supply of affordable social housing in the state and provides tenants with increased choice, including opportunities to be involved in the management of their own housing.
To provide a sense of the Tasmanian sector at present, there are approximately fifty (50) community based housing providers operating state-wide managing just under five hundred (500) properties. Organisation’s range in size from a Housing Association managing over one hundred (100) homes to small community based housing providers managing only a handful of properties. There are seven (7) Co-operatives within the sector, managing over one hundred (100) properties.
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