In the Redfern
Town Hall workshop, facilitated by University of Western Sydney researchers,
social housing residents and other interested community representatives were
provided the necessary background research and similar project examples in
supporting and developing this community-based project. Residents’ Voices will
also soon become a webbased forum where local issues and opinions, experiences
and activities can be shared and posted online, encouraging further discussion
and airing of our varied experiences and concerns relating to living within the
social mix that is Redfern-Waterloo.
Together with
support from residents involved in an earlier meeting at the Factory Community
Centre, workshop participants committed to ongoing promotion and support for
this unique project.
A second
Planning Expo at Redfern Park invited local residents to come along to the
RedWater Markets, to take time to hear about the Redfern Waterloo Masterplan,
supported by the Australian Government’s Housing Affordability
Fund and
Housing NSW. I attended, with many other locals, writing down “What we would
like to see in the future” and signing up for upcoming planning workshops.
People spotted where we lived on a huge map of our local area, and provided
ideas of concerns and issues affecting our neighbourhood. S
For further
information check out Associate Professor Michael Darcy’s webpage and project,
Residents’ Voices: advantage, disadvantage, community and place: www.uws.edu.au
Source:
September 2011 Edition of The South
Sydney Herald