Living in social housing
Learn about your rights and responsibilities as a tenant and request help with your home or tenancy or find out more about management transfers in some areas
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Rights and responsibilities
Understand your rights as a tenant, what your responsibilities are and how your tenancy is managed -
Paying rent and other charges
Information on how rent is set, access to payment options for rent and water and an overview of other charges you may need to pay -
Repairs, modifications and maintenance to a property
Access eRepair, understand what changes you can ask for or make to your home, or request maintenance -
Help for job seekers and students
We’re helping you access training programs to gain skills and jobs. -
Move, swap or transfer housing
Find information on transferring to more suitable home, swapping homes with another tenant and moving out of social housing -
Health, safety and savings at home
Tips for reducing your energy and water bills, managing your household and reducing health risks at home -
Management Transfer Program
Find out more about when and where the management of some tenancies is transferring to community housing providers -
Community housing tenants
Community housing tenants are tenants of the community housing provider. They are not tenants of DCJ Housing -
Headleasing Guidelines
These Guidelines have been developed to assist both landlords and real estate agents to better understand the operational requirements when dealing with DCJ on matters relating to Headleasing.
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Last updated: 10 Oct 2019