What’s available
The National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation (NHFIC) is dedicated to improving housing outcomes for Australians. It offers loans, investments and grants through its Affordable Housing Bond Aggregator (AHBA) and National Housing Infrastructure Facility (NHIF) to encourage investment in housing, with a particular focus on affordable housing.
The AHBA provides low cost and longer-term loans to registered community housing organisations to support the provision of more social and affordable housing.
The NHIF provides finance for eligible infrastructure projects that will unlock new housing supply.
Help to apply
Housing organisations can access grants of up to $20,000 (incl GST) for tailored consulting services (selected from an approved panel) to assist their applications for NHFIC finance, in the following areas:
- Finance: project and business financial modelling, fund raising, financial risk analysis and key ratios.
- Business planning: project and business planning, preparation of business cases, forming partnerships, monitoring results.
- Property development: developing or procuring new social and affordable housing, mixed tenure, sustainable and accessible property design, urban planning, place making.
- Risk management: understanding risks (business, financial, policy, governance etc.) and managing, monitoring and mitigating risk.
The funds are provided through the Capacity Building Program.
CHIA National administers the Capacity Building Program on the NHFIC’s behalf. Visit CHIA National’s website for information on how to access a grant.
