PiFi Property: Helping Migrants Find a Home
The Candidate Assistance Services Interface (CASI) gets a new service on GRN: a signpost to PiFi Property, helping eligible candidates explore rental homes close to the communities, services, and everyday essentials that matter to them in their new country.
🏠A New Card in the Services Tab
Eligible GRN registrants see a PiFi Property card — “Helping migrants find a place to call home in Australia” — sitting alongside the other CASI services. Selecting it shows a short description of the service and a single button through to PiFi’s site.
This is signposting only: clicking through takes the candidate to PiFi’s own property search as an anonymous visitor. There’s no login hand-off, no account linking, and no candidate data shared with PiFi in this phase.
🌍 The Right Country, Automatically
A candidate is shown a PiFi link if one has been configured for a country relevant to them. Relevance is checked in order — the country they’re relocating to, then any country where they have a job offer in progress, then their current country — and the first match with a configured link wins. Today that’s just Australia, where PiFi already operates.
⚙️ Built on the UNHCR Help Playbook
PiFi is modelled directly on the existing UNHCR Help signposting service, reusing the same underlying CASI mechanism. The admin-portal screen for managing per-country help links has been extended to cover both services side by side, so adding PiFi coverage for a new country is the same admin action as adding a UNHCR Help link.
🚀 What’s Next
- More countries: as PiFi expands its property search beyond Australia, new countries light up for candidates automatically — no code changes required, just a new admin link.
- Beyond signposting: this phase is referral-only. A later phase is expected to add a federated, authenticated hand-off between Talent Catalog and PiFi.