Activities | Karabar Housing Cooperative Ltd

The Karabar Housing Cooperative is a proud member of Q-HAC.

QUEANBEYAN HOUSING ACTION COLLECTIVE (Q-HAC)

Local Action to Address Homelessness and Housing Affordability

The Queanbeyan Housing Action Collective (Q-HAC) is a voluntary collective whose members support responses to local homelessness, domestic violence and affordable housing needs of people in our community. Q-HAC foundation members are: St Benedicts Community Centre ; Molonglo Support Services; Karabar Housing Cooperative, and the Terry Campese Foundation.

Q-HAC was formed to identify innovative ways to address homelessness and housing affordability in our region and, since its inception in 2018, Q-HAC foundation members have partnered with state government, local government, local businesses, local charitable organisations, local service clubs, and community members to achieve success.

Recent years of Q-HAC initiatives include:

Launched the new Queanbeyan Night Podz bus - 2025
Receiving a $4.8 million grant through the HAFF (Housing Australia Future Fund) Crisis and Transitional Accommodation Program (CTAP) - 2025
Adding solar panels to 12 of our properties thanks to the The Local Small Commitments Allocation Program and Steve Whan MP's work - 2023
Celebrating Kelli Roxon who was awarded 2023 Queanbeyan Citizen of the Year for her outstanding and enduring leadership as a volunteer with Sleepbus Queanbeyan
Celebrating Sleepbus as the 2002 Australia Day Community Event of the Year Award winner.
Presenting in favour of the motion to develop an Affordable Housing Strategy at a QPRC council meeting.
Inviting local council candidates to raise their awareness of the current local homelessness and affordable housing situation and the need for the development of an Affordable Housing Strategy - 2021
Welcoming the Sleepbus commencement of service - 2021
Achieving the Sleepbus Fundraising goal of $100,000 - 2020
Hosting the thankyou (for the above event), Fundraising Dinner and Auction to announce the goal of raising $100,000 to bring a Sleepbus (sleepbus : Queanbeyan Service) to our community as an alternative to rough/unsafe sleeping - 2019
Designing and running the “24 hours Without” participatory event where 8 local identities experienced 24 hours of actual scenarios of homelessness - 2019
Developing the Issues Paper “The Right to a Home”, and presenting it to the Queanbeyan Palerang Regional Council - 2018
Community awareness raising by sharing our community’s homelessness and housing Issues by hosting the “Creating a Better Queanbeyan” Forum - 2018

LIONS CLUB OF QUEANBEYAN

Lions Community Bookshop

The Cooperative thanks the Lions Community Bookshop for its amazingly generous and regular donations over several years. These donations have contributed to the cost of replacing floor coverings and installing reverse-cycle air conditioning units in Karabar Housing homes.

We also thank members of the Lions Club of Queanbeyan who assisted the Cooperative host its very successful pilot barbecue for tenants post-COVID.

ROTARY JERRABOMBERRA

Support from Rotary Jerrabomberra has allowed Karabar Housing to upgrade a bathroom for one of our senior tenants, and to beautify the grounds of the complex known as Beth Shalom.

Beth Shalom is a 6-unit complex owned by the Queanbeyan and District Anglican Church (QDAC). The intention behind the existence of Beth Shalom has been to provide low-cost accommodation for parishioners and people in need in the Queanbeyan area. Karabar Housing provides property management support services to QDAC for Beth Shalom.

See details of the projects here:

https://portal.clubrunner.ca/9728/Stories/karabar-housing-cooperative-bathroom-reno

https://portal.clubrunner.ca/9728/Stories/karabar-housing-backyard-blitz

QUEANBEYAN HOUSING ACTION COLLECTIVE (Q-HAC)

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Recent years of Q-HAC initiatives include:

Launched the new Queanbeyan Night Podz bus - 2025

Receiving a $4.8 million grant through the HAFF (Housing Australia Future Fund) Crisis and Transitional Accommodation Program (CTAP) - 2025

Adding solar panels to 12 of our properties thanks to the The Local Small Commitments Allocation Program and Steve Whan MP's work - 2023

Celebrating Kelli Roxon who was awarded 2023 Queanbeyan Citizen of the Year for her outstanding and enduring leadership as a volunteer with Sleepbus Queanbeyan

Celebrating Sleepbus as the 2002 Australia Day Community Event of the Year Award winner.

Presenting in favour of the motion to develop an Affordable Housing Strategy at a QPRC council meeting.

Inviting local council candidates to raise their awareness of the current local homelessness and affordable housing situation and the need for the development of an Affordable Housing Strategy - 2021

Welcoming the Sleepbus commencement of service - 2021

Achieving the Sleepbus Fundraising goal of $100,000 - 2020

Hosting the thankyou (for the above event), Fundraising Dinner and Auction to announce the goal of raising $100,000 to bring a Sleepbus (sleepbus : Queanbeyan Service) to our community as an alternative to rough/unsafe sleeping - 2019

Designing and running the “24 hours Without” participatory event where 8 local identities experienced 24 hours of actual scenarios of homelessness - 2019

Developing the Issues Paper “The Right to a Home”, and presenting it to the Queanbeyan Palerang Regional Council - 2018

Community awareness raising by sharing our community’s homelessness and housing Issues by hosting the “Creating a Better Queanbeyan” Forum - 2018​