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The Peasants of Ainslie Collective Housing Company Limited provides accommodation for low income earners.
Juno Womens Housing Association provides accommodation for single women with children.
Student Association School Without Walls Incorporated provides accommodation for young people.
The Wyuna Community Incorporated provides accommodation for homeless people.
Barton Housing Co-operative provides accommodation for low to middle income earners.
The National Brain Injury Foundation provides accommodation for people with acquired brain trauma.
Havelock House Association provides independent shared accommodation for low income earners and accommodation specifically for young single mothers.
Each low income housing group imposes its own eligibility criteria.
(7) In order to establish a housing co-operative:
A group of interested people must form a legally incorporated organisation, such as a co-operative society, a company limited or an association. The incorporation must comply with the requirements specified by their method of incorporation.
The incorporated body has to develop a management plan, which addresses all areas of co-operative management (including financial management and maintenance planning).
The incorporated body has to also develop policies and procedures in such areas as decision making, grievance and conflict resolution, obligations under the landlord and tenant legislation, tenant selection, payment of rents, rent arrears, and evictions.
(8) Housing co-operative houses are managed by the members of the co-operative who tenant the houses. Tenant involvement in management is an essential part of co-operative housing.
(9) As the administrator of capital grant programs such as the Community Housing Program, the ACT Government requires annual reports and annual audited financial statements from all organisations receiving funding. The ACT Government is assisted in its role by the Community Housing Advisory Service ACT Incorporated which is funded by the Commonwealth Government to provide infrastructure support and monitoring of the community housing sector. This Service is an important resource for co-operatives and other interested community housing groups and is responsible for the promotion and development of the community housing sector in the ACT.
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