- When
- August 6, 2026, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
- Where
- Counterpoints The Facory, 67 Raglan Street Waterloo
- Contact
- Geoff Turnbull, mail@redwatch.org.au, (02)8004 1490
Community
Housing Providers (CHPs) will manage new social housing in Waterloo South. All
three of the CHPs are already housing tenants from Waterloo South relocations,
even though City West is not managing any Homes NSW owned social housing. You
can find out more about the CHPs and their policies prior to the meeting on the
websites for Link-Wentworth, Birribee Housing and City West Housing.
REDWatch has
provided the CHPs with some tenant questions (see later in this email) and in
our last email we also provided some broader questions about issues CHPs need
to address over coming months (also repeated later in this email). There will
be an opportunity to raise questions at the meeting.
So come along
and hear from the CHPs on Thursday 6th August 2026 from 6:00 –
7:30pm at Counterpoint’s Factory Community Centre 67 Raglan Street Waterloo or
join us online on Zoom http://tinyurl.com/RedwatchMeetingZoom.
You can promote this meeting electronically by sharing our Facebook
post or flyer
or asking Navin for a poster at The Factory.
What is Social Housing?
This REDWatch
CHP meeting will focus on social housing. Given the confusion about the terms like
public and social housing, the Waterloo Redevelopment Group in 2024 requested
the Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA) to prepare a Social
Housing Factsheet which is on the REDWatch website. This may be helpful in
explaining some of the key differences between Public, Aboriginal and Community
housing models leading into the coming REDWatch meeting. This sheet compares
ownership, management, dwellings under management, eligibility for Commonwealth
Rent Assistance, regulation and complaints across the three different types of
social housing.
We will leave
the complexities of affordable housing for another meeting but for some
information on the differences between social and affordable see AHURI’s Brief What
is the difference between social housing and affordable housing – and why do
they matter?