On 9 January 1912, the Workers’ Homes Board Act was passed through Parliament with bi-partisan support leading to the formation of Western Australia’s first public housing organisation and the Housing Authority's original predecessor, the Workers’ Homes Board.
We have come far from this humble beginning a century ago. Today we continue to find and implement innovative solutions to meet the housing needs of a large range of Western Australians: key workers, community workers, remote communities, government employees, first homebuyers, families, renters and those less fortunate households who require public housing.
To learn more about our history, please click on the links below:
| Workers' Homes Board |
1912 – 1947 |
| State Housing Commission |
1947 – 1985 |
| Homeswest |
1985 – 1999 |
| Ministry of Housing |
1999 – 2001 |
| Department of Housing and Works |
2001 – 2009 |
| Department of Housing |
2009 – 2015 |
| The Housing Authority |
2009 – present |