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About Home Share Melbourne

Home Share Melbourne exists to provide people with a choice about where and how they live.  
 
At Home Share Melbourne, we focus on the idea of a ‘home’ rather a house.  A home is not just a bed and roof over your head, it’s somewhere that is safe, comfortable, welcoming, which is full of people (and pets!) who you have chosen to live with.  A home is a sanctuary and how it feels can impact the rest of your life. 
 
For some people – like those living with a disability, young people or those seeking asylum – the process of finding a safe, comfortable, and welcoming home can be complex.  That’s where Home Share Melbourne come in – we help make the process of finding a home and housemate easy and dignified.  We believe that where and how you live should be choice, rather than the result of your circumstances.  
 
Ultimately, we’d like to see everyone find their home.
 
We use the international homeshare model to support people to live better, more connected lives. Homeshare programs have been operating for 40 years and are now run in 18 countries around the world.
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Home Share Melbourne is run by HANZA Inc. HANZA is a registered charity that has been operating since 2006. In that time, HANZA has become a leader in the international homeshare movement. Home Share Melbourne is a not-for-profit social enterprise.

Our Services for People with a Disability

1. Assessment and Recommendations

Would you or someone you support benefit from living in a more connected way in the community with a supportive flatmate? Book a free consultation with the team. We complete Independent Living Options (ILO) assessments to formulate a plan of your housing goals. We do this work using Explore and Design funds through the NDIS. We will let you know what housing options might work for you. 

2. Support to Access Funding

 We can assist to write an ILO quote and advocate to the NDIA that you get the ILO funding you need to be able to live in a creative way in the community. 

3. Support to Find Housing 

If you don't already have housing or would like to move, we can help you to find housing. We will help you to shortlist properties, go to rental viewings with you, advocate to real estate agents, be with you at the meeting to sign the rental agreement. ​We can help to find creative ways to make rental affordable for you.

4. Matching 

We can help you to find a highly compatible supportive flatmate. We will advertise, interview, police and reference check potential flatmates. We will help to set up the arrangement to ensure that you get the support you need from the arrangement. We will continue to support you and your flatmate to ensure that everything runs smoothly.   ​

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OTHER SERVICES

Asylum seekers

Home Share Melbourne are working with the City of Port Phillip Council and Flatmates.com.au to match asylum seekers with community members who have spare bedrooms in their homes. Opening up safe and affordable (or free) housing to asylum seekers fills a gap in services funded by government and Councils and fulfils our mission to ensure that everyone in our community should have a safe place to call home. 
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Young people

Home Share Melbourne has seen young people's lives transformed from being part of the program. Breaking the cycle of homelessness through our youth program centres on two things, providing affordable housing and a supportive flatmate who provides mentoring. We hope to house many more young people in the future with the assistance of grants and donations. 

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Home Share Melbourne is a not for profit social enterprise that is committed to creating life changing flatmate arrangements. We receive no government funding and we rely on small grants and sponsorship from individuals and charities to be able to operate our asylum seeker and youth programs.
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