SAHT during the mid-1940s, with additional staff and responsibilities, a new chairman (Jack Cartledge) and general manager (Alex Ramsay). Cartledge and Ramsay were highly intelligent and capable men who created the post-war organisation with its pervasive powers and directed the SAHT for the remaining years of the Playford government. Both men were conscious of the role of the SAHT in determining the overall direction of urban growth, and not merely contributing to it. Post-World War II After the Second World War the trust became one of the most powerful of the State authorities. Many new activities were supported by Playford, which enabled the SAHT to act as a total development authority, so that it could foster new suburban areas, industrial and economic development, and population expansion. The SAHT thus operated as "metropolitan planner" at several levels simultaneously: as formal town planner (at Elizabeth); as de facto metropolitan planner, integrating factory development and housing and extending the suburbs; and as a major State planner, particularly in relation to industrialisation and immigration. 1960s–late 1990s The trust's wide roles as a large-scale developer and public housing authority were curtailed from the late 1980s. The statutory authority also came under departmental control, at first under the Department of Human Services, and from 2004 under the Department for Families and Communities. In its 70th year the functions of the SAHT were taken over by Housing SA, a division within that department. Early 2000s to present The SA Housing Trust Board reports to the minister responsible for the relevant department, the Department for Families and Communities, which was later renamed as the Department for Communities and Social Inclusion, and, following the March 2018 state election, again renamed as the Department for Human Services. In 2004, the way in which SAHT services were delivered changed. Houses are still owned by SAHT, however, maintenance and tenant relations is now delivered by Housing SA, and upgrades/renewal projects are being delivered from the early 2010s onwards by Renewal SA, both of which report to Cabinet through the minister. In the 2010s some SAHT houses were demolished and rebuilt as part of the '1 Thousand Homes in 1000 Days' program. In some areas, management and ownership of homes has been transferred to non-government service organisations. See also Thousand Homes Scheme References External links Department for Communities and Social Inclusion > Housing SA Accessed 10 April 2014. Organizations established in 1936 Organizations