About us
With our vision for a safe and stable home for everyone with fair and practical pathways to home ownership, Head Start Homes is advancing a more equitable home ownership system by disrupting homelessness, intergenerational poverty and cycles of disadvantage.
We achieve this by providing innovative products and services that empower our clients to achieve their home ownership dreams and exit rental accommodation. To be eligible, clients must meet income thresholds or live in social or affordable housing. Most of our clients are single mums, First Nations Peoples or households with a disability.
With the support of more than 100 businesses, government agencies and charities, we foster innovation and collaboration to achieve our vision. We are accredited as a not-for-profit, tax-exempt community service organisation.
Pathways to Homeownership: Tackling the Big Three Barriers
Currently, in Australia there's a critical shortage of social and affordable housing which is made worse by a lack of fair and practical pathways to home ownership.
Working alongside our clients we have identified three major barriers that contribute to the current housing crisis.
These barriers can also make the home buying process feel like a complex puzzle that can be impossible to solve. These three barriers are the:
Know-how Barrier
Deposit Barrier
Supply Barrier
Our Empowerment Products and Services provide a holistic solution for eligible renters to overcome the home ownership puzzle.
No other organisation in Australia provides support along the whole home ownership journey like we do.
We’re here to help
Our Empowerment Products and Services provide the missing pieces to the home ownership puzzle by:
Educating our clients to improve their financial capability and mortgage readiness.
Equalising the playing field so that our clients have fairer access to home ownership products and services.
Empowering :
our clients - so that they have a specialist support network which includes property coaches to help find the right home at the right price.
lower income renters - by boosting the availability of stable and affordable rental housing and providing a foundation for them to commence their homeownership journey with us.
Please note that we also help private renters who are on lower incomes. Check out our eligibility criteria for further details.
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Home ownership in Burketown, Queensland
We’re proud to have helped pioneer a new homeownership pathway in the remote community of Burketown in far north Queensland, which will help up to 21 mostly First Nations tenants buy their own home.
Reducing poverty and homelessness
Our innovative approach, combined with our cross-sector partnerships, creates positive ripple effects leading to more safe and stable homes for households on community housing waitlists.
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Cross-sector support
Disrupting the home ownership sector, so that there is more equal access to home ownership is no easy task. That’s why we are fortunate to have the support of over 100 organisations, including some of Australia’s largest charities and businesses.
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