Housing Registrar
Uniting Housing (Victoria) Limited
Registration Category: Housing Provider
Registration Date: 24 November 2009
Agency Trading Name:

Agency contacts
CEO: Not specified   Chairperson: Not specified
Website: http://unitinghousing.org.au/
Phone: 03 9251 5960
Head Office:


Agency purpose / vision

To increase the availability of appropriate, secure and sustainable affordable housing, to strengthen communities and to assist those most in need.

Agency history

Uniting Housing is a not for profit company established by the Uniting Church in Australia Property Trust Victoria in December 2008 to facilitate housing for members of the community who experience disadvantage in line with the Church’s ethos and mission.
Uniting Housing has fulfilled its vision by providing operational management services, support and guidance to UnitingCare Agencies (now known as Uniting Vic.Tas), Uniting Church Presbyteries and Congregations in the delivery of effective and sustainable social and community housing.

Scope of operations
Housing

Uniting Housing holds service agreements and contracts with the Victorian Government to deliver housing services in government properties; and owns properties throughout Victoria that are provided to tenants as long-term community housing.

Housing support services

Transitional & Crisis Housing Management

Tenant/Client group

We are here for young people, single adults and families, people with disability, older people and those experiencing homelessness and family violence.

Other services

None

Geographic areas covered

Metropolitan Melbourne and Regional Victoria.

Key statistics
Housing properties under management

436

Properties in agency ownership

32

Tenancy units under management

652

Tenancy units in agency ownership

32

Staffing

18

Total assets for the last financial year

$7,632,156

Annual turnover for the last financial year

$3,632,013

Operational surplus for the last financial year

$830,740

Current housing projects

Exploration is underway to develop a small precinct within a Uniting Church site in central Bendigo

Legal structure

Uniting Housing is a registered company limited by guarantee and is registered with the ACNC as a Public benevolent institution. Its Board of Governance is independent of other Uniting Church group entities.

Key partnerships

The Uniting Housing (Victoria) Limited Board endorsed a joint strategy with Uniting (Victoria and Tasmania) Limited to ‘make housing a priority for the Uniting Church’.
To enable the strategy’s success a Relationship Agreement between the two organisations was enacted and a Service Level Agreement signed that has Uniting Housing’s housing services being delivered by Uniting’s Housing & Property Division.