The Minister for Housing has released a Discussion Paper: Regulation and Growth of the Not-For-Profit Housing Sector.

This paper puts forward options for potential reforms of community housing in Australia and to seek input from the not-for-profit sector, investors, tenant groups, Indigenous community housing, developers and the business community into the formulation of clear policy direction to support the growth and sustainability of the community housing sector in Australia.

The paper contains a useful analysis of existing community housing regulation by jurisdiction and proposes 5 options for national regulation of the sector.