ahi: Brighter Future Awards

Excellence in Social Housing

The Excellence in Social Housing award provides an opportunity for an organisation or team/division of an organisation to showcase the outstanding and/or unique way in which it has delivered social housing services.

Future Leader

This award recognises industry professionals with 5+ years of experience who have shown potential to excel as a future leader, Nominees will be deemed to have a future in General Management or C-Suite level positions and one day have a significant impact on the sector.

Inspirational Team Member

This award acknowledges a person who is passionate about their role and understands how it fits into the strategic outcomes of their organisation, and the values of social housing. They consistently demonstrate enthusiasm to add value to their role and motivate others within their team and/or organisation by the approach they take to their work.

Leading Asset Manager

The Leading Asset Management Award is dedicated to asset management that is consistently rated by tenants and stakeholders as excellent and/or incorporates practices or innovations that result in significantly better maintenance services and asset outcomes.

Outstanding Achievement

The winner of this award is a housing professional who has significant achievements working in social housing that goes beyond their team and organisation and is likely to have a long-term impact on the industry as a whole and the housing profession.

Leading Innovation

The Leading Innovation award recognises new thinking in the housing sector – initiatives or projects that have led to significant change in the nominated organisation or community, with lessons that could be applied more broadly to other housing organisations.

Leading Community Engagement Practice

This award is dedicated to a project or initiative that demonstrates leading practice in encouraging, enabling, and supporting tenant and/or community engagement.

Leading Housing Development Project 

This award recognises a residential development that offers an exemplary model to the sector for its outstanding quality and/or innovation and/or originality.

Tenant Led Initiative

Nominations for this award are open to individuals or a group of residents/tenants who have undertaken a project or initiative to benefit others in their community.

Board Award for Exceptional Sector Contribution

A new award was introduced in 2023 for the ‘ahi: Board Award for Exceptional Sector Contribution’. This award acknowledges a person who has demonstrated commitment and professionalism in providing exceptional contribution that has impacted in a positive way the systems, people and communities working in the Social & Affordable Housing Sectors.

The award recipient is chosen by the AHI Board of Directors and this year, in its first year the award winner was unanimously voted for to receive this award.