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The Queensland Housing Commission was constituted in pursuance of the provisions of the State Housing Act of 1945 which was proclaimed on 10 December 1945. The Commission amalgamated with the Local Government Department to form the Department of Housing and Local Government in December 1989.
The Housing Commission was established to address the post-war housing shortage. Its functions were: planning, construction, acquisition and maintenance of houses under the State Housing Acts and Commonwealth and State Housing Agreements; acquisition and development of estates for housing; granting of loans for home ownership; sale and rental of Housing Commission dwellings; also to advise Local Authorities in regard to building by-laws and similar matters.
In the 1960s and 1970s the Commission branched out from large estate development to unit blocks and attached housing. With the repeal of the State Housing Act of 1945 by the Housing Act 2003, the Housing Commission