Renting
The following documents are currently only available in PDF format. Should you be unable to read them please contact the Right to Information Unit. We will endeavour to meet all reasonable requests for an alternative hardcopy format of the document, free of charge.
You will need to have 
Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to view or print the PDF files below.
For more information on PDF files, obtaining Adobe Reader or converting PDF files to text, visit the help section.
Applying for housing assistance
Housing and Homelessness Services provides housing assistance to those with the greatest need.
Being offered housing assistance
If you are on the housing register, we will contact you when a property becomes available. You will be asked if you can move into the property, and if you can, you will be invited to inspect the property.
Welcome to your home
The Welcome to your home kit is a handy reference guide containing information on policy and procedures that affect tenants and their homes.
How to apply for housing assistance
You may complete an application form and send it to your nearest Housing Services office. You will then be contacted to arrange an appointment to discuss your application.
Housing assistance for people with disabilities
The department aims to assist clients with a physical, intellectual, sensory or psychiatric disability which affects their housing need.
Public housing forms
A range of forms for applicants and tenants of department-managed housing.
State Tenancy Agreement (264Kb)
Sample form only including part 1 and 2.
Tenant News
Information about living in a departmental property, news from Housing and Homelessness Services and updates on tenant group activities.
Practice Guideline - Excessive Noise (40Kb)
To guide service delivery staff when responding to complaints of excessive noise made by tenants in properties where clients have funded support arrangements.
Practice Guideline - Home Modifications (39Kb)
To guide service delivery staff when deciding which home modifications should be provided in properties where clients have funded support arrangements.
2008 Water-Wise Garden Awards
The Awards are open to all tenants in social housing in Queensland.
Fire ant eradication campaign
Fire ants have been found at all types of properties across the State. To eradicate the fire ant, every home in the infested areas must be treated. This means that your property may be affected.
Last updated 14 July 2009
Other languages