While Women’s Housing Ltd has only been around for a few decades, our roots reach much further back. We were formerly known as the State-wide Women’s Community Housing Service (SWCHS) and only changed our name in 2002 so we’d be easier to find in the phone book.
While the way people find us has changed, our founding principles and reason-for-being, has stayed the same: the provision of accommodation for at-risk women across Victoria.
Our experience, knowledge and desire to help comes from our founding members:
• Young Women’s Housing Shopfront
• Safe Place for Women
• Flat Out
• Young Women’s Project
• Cambodian, Lao & Vietnamese Young Women’s Accommodation
• Council of Single Mothers and their Children
• Counterpoint Young Women’s Refuge
• YWCA of Dandenong & Westernport
• Women’s Housing Outreach Support Service
• At Last Young Women’s Refuge
In 1997, we were all ultimately working towards the same outcome – stable, affordable housing for women – so we pooled our resources for the greater good. At the time we were established, the Department estimated that we had oversight of 45-60 properties. This portfolio has expanded in scale and variety of housing options over the years and will continue to do so in the future.
