Government Employee Housing

Government Employee Housing (GEH) owns and manages the Queensland Government’s employee housing portfolio, consisting of almost 3,000 residences. This supports government agencies deliver essential services by providing suitable, cost-efficient accommodation for critical Queensland Government frontline service staff.

What we do

We offer safe and secure accommodation to attract essential front-line government workers to areas that have reduced or no availability of rental accommodation in regional and remote areas of Queensland, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Our housing supports government agencies who require accommodation for their employees to deliver frontline services, such as health and ambulance workers, police officers, teachers, and other staff across the state.

Our teams

The Tenancy Management team:

  • Works with agencies to facilitate the leasing and property management of GEH properties
  • Coordinates tenant entry and exit processes with managing agents, including cleaning, pest control and service maintenance requests
  • Works closely with government agents, councils, client agencies and their tenants as stakeholder and relationship managers.

The Maintenance Management team:

  • Develops and maintains the maintenance and upgrade programs for the portfolio
  • Work in conjunction with QBuild to deliver upgrade and maintenance works on properties
  • Arranges general property inspections and condition assessments for all residences across the portfolio to ensure properties are maintained to standard

The Asset and Capital Works teams:

  • Undertakes strategic assessment of individual assets and the overall portfolio.
  • Develops and maintains the divestment strategy to review and replace aging properties.
  • Manages the capital works program to deliver new construction projects to meet agency demand.

Sales program

Selling our surplus housing helps reduce the costs of managing and maintaining government-owned housing.

Revenue from the sales program is re-invested to fund:

  • New construction in remote areas Queensland
  • Portfolio renewal through improvements and upgrades of existing properties
  • Acquisition of newer, modern properties.

Divestment of GEH properties is considered on a case-by-case basis in areas where there are strong rental markets. Full or partial divestment can be through:

  • the Sales to Tenants program
  • real estate marketing
  • repurposing of properties through local councils
  • sale in priority to community housing providers.

Contact us

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