At CHL, we work alongside customers, partners, government and communities across Australia to create a world without housing poverty by delivering safe, secure and affordable places for people to call home and belong – because every life deserves a solid foundation.
Compass Housing Services Co Ltd. (Compass) is a not for profit organisation, established in 1985. Compass is primarily about alleviating the hardship of housing stress for low-to moderate-income-earning households by providing secure and affordable housing and delivering housing products for disadvantaged people who have difficulties sourcing adequate and affordable housing.
Compass operates from ten facilities: a head office and nine branch offices in NSW. These branches include a specialist Affordable Housing office, a Homelessness project and also a Community Hub, which we facilitate and partner with many organisations and the community to deliver a range of services. Compass operates in the Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Wyong, Gosford, Maitland, Port Stephens, Cessnock, Singleton, Upper Hunter, Muswellbrook, Broken Hill, Central Darling, Dubbo, Wentworth and Wellington LGA’s.
Compass manages social housing similar to Housing NSW and is regulated by the performance-based registration system in its operations. Compass is registered as a Class 1 provider, meaning that it is a large organisation with the highest standard of performance. Compass is very proud of the high level of service we provide.
For your targeted client group we aim to be ‘your direction home’. We continuously work to increase the supply of housing for our potential clients, properly maintaining the housing assets and assisting clients in sustaining their tenancies.
We are a registered community housing provider and charity with a long history of delivering community housing in Sydney. We first began as SWISH, the South-West Inner Sydney Housing Cooperative, in 1984. Since then, we have joined with local community housing providers, officially becoming Bridge Housing in 2009. Today, we manage 3,600 properties across metropolitan Sydney, home to 5,300 people.
Our purpose is to change lives through more homes and quality services. Working at the coalface of Sydney’s housing crisis, we know that a safe, secure, affordable home is the stable base that people need to do well. We take a long term view to running our business so that we can continue changing lives for generations to come and this means carefully considering the environmental and social impacts of our decisions.