Defence Housing Australia

Defence Housing Australia (DHA) is an Australian government business enterprise established by the Defence Housing Australia Act 1987. DHA supplies housing and related services to Australian Defence Force members and their families in line with defence operational requirements. To meet these requirements, DHA is active in Australian residential housing markets, acquiring and developing land, and constructing and purchasing houses.

The DHA has its origins in the War Service Homes Commission, established in 1919 to provide housing for soldiers returned from World War I. The commission was renamed the Defence Service Homes Commission in 1973 and the Defence Service Homes Corporation in 1977,administered by the Department of Veterans' Affairs. The corporation's mortgage assets were sold to Westpac in the late 1980s and it was replaced by a new statutory body in 1988.