North Coast Community Housing

Providing homes, improving lives, strengthening communities.

NCCH is a not-for-profit company managing social and affordable housing development for people in housing need on very low, low and moderate incomes in the far north coast of New South Wales. The company was formed in 1984 and then amalgamated with Clarence Valley Community Tenancy Schemes in 1997 as part of the NSW Community Housing Growth Strategy. The Company is not-for-profit and limited by guarantee.

It is made up of members and governed by a Board of Directors. The Constitution allows for seven Directors to govern the Company. The Board employs a Chief Executive Officer to lead a team of skilled and qualified individuals with social housing and financial management expertise to manage the operations of the Company. In 2019, the Company covers a geographic area north from Grafton to Tweed and west to Tabulam.

It operates from a head office in Lismore with two branch offices – one in South Tweed Heads and the other in Grafton – with over 840 tenancies under a variety of housing programs. The Company receives the majority of its funding from tenant rents with supplementary funding from the NSW Department of Family and Community Services (FACS) to deliver these programs. As well as supporting individuals and families on low incomes, a number of properties are managed in collaboration with community partners to serve the need of particular community members.

These groups include women and children escaping domestic violence, people with intellectual and physical disabilities, people with mental illness, people in recovery, young people and aboriginal men and women.