Community Housing Disability Network – Consultation Forum

Community Housing Disability Network – Consultation Forum 

(Free Online Event)

Event date: Tuesday 15th August 2023

Time: 11:30am-1:00pm (AEST: ACT/ NSW/ Qld/ Tas/ Vic); 11:00am-12:30pm (NT/ SA); 9:30-11:00am (WA)

Registrations close Monday 14th August at 3:00pm (AEST)

This is a free online event for people with disability, their families, and supporters.
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The Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA), in association with Rights & Inclusion Australia (R&IA) is holding an online consultation forum targeted at people with lived experience of disability who are interested in improved housing options. 

A short presentation will be followed by discussion about the direction that CHIA is taking to address the current crisis in the availability of quality housing in Australia for people with disability. 

The information gathered at the forum will help to prioritise the actions that the network takes over the next 18 months. It will also assist the network to ensure that people with lived experience of disability remain actively involved in all of its activities.

Presenters

• Wendy Hayhurst - Chief Executive Officer, CHIA 
• Joseph Connellan - Consultant, MC Two Pty Ltd

Host
Mel Harrison - Peer Network Engagement Officer, R&IA

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Accessibility & Reasonable Adjustments: 

If you need assistance or reasonable adjustments to participate please provide details when registering. 

Please note that we need a minimum of five business days' notice to book some types of supports, including AUSLAN interpreting. 

Please contact projectofficer@riaustralia.org with any queries or requests.

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More about the Community Housing Disability Network

In October 2022, the Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA) set up a network of community housing organisations (CHOs) and other stakeholders within the disability sector who share a concern about and commitment to providing quality housing to people with disability in the community. This is the Community Housing Disability Network (CHDN). The network is committed to sharing insights, experience, and expertise, in order to develop solutions/responses that will improve housing options for people with disability while also influencing mainstream housing practice and design.
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CHIA is the national body which represents and advocates on behalf of the community housing industry at a national level. CHIA works collaboratively with the state and territory peak bodies and its members to represent the community housing industry at a national level.

Community housing providers manage a $18 billion-plus portfolio of more than 118,000 rental properties. These properties are home to people who are on low and moderate incomes who find it hard to access affordable or appropriate housing in the private market.
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Rights & Inclusion Australia (R&IA) is a national Disability Representative Organisation (DRO) working to promote the rights and inclusion of people with disability. With a strong focus on housing and accessibility R&IA also works in the Asia/Pacific region and is a member of the Pacific Disability Forum.

Since 2021 R&IA has been leading the Opening the Door project, along with its partners National Shelter and Enliven Housing, to support people with disability to achieve choice and control with their housing options. R&IA’s is assisting this forum through the Opening the Door project, with funding through the Australian Government’s Information, Linkages and Capacity Building program. The project aims to support people with disability to achieve choice and control with their housing options. For more information, go to https://riaustralia.org/opening-the-door-project/.

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Privacy:

This event is a CHDN forum and all participants are welcome. R&IA and CHIA have partnered to organise this event so that we reach as many participants as possible. Your details will not be shared with anyone else. 

R&IA will have access to all information that you submit when you register to attend this event. Your information will be used for the following purposes only:

• To coordinate your attendance at the event, and provide you with additional resources related to the event.
• To issue surveys to people who register to attend this event. These will be voluntary to complete. R&IA will issue a separate Participation Information Statement with all surveys.  
• To see whether you would like to participate in future CHDN activities.

R&IA's Privacy Policy can be viewed here.

Humanitix's privacy policy for people registering to attend this event can be viewed at https://events.humanitix.com/pdfs/humanitix_privacy_policy.pdf