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Don’t be cajoled and soft-soaped into accepting unquestioningly the government’s Stock Transfer program. Make sure that there is a full and balanced debate in your community so that tenants hear both sides of the argument around Stock Transfer, the government’s chosen vehicle for delivering privatis Read More…

The universal answer from Housing NSW, and some other public housing providers, when confronted with a problem of their own making whose cure they have placed in the ‘too hard’ basket is to say “sell”. This announcement is frequently closely followed by an endorsement of the yet to be definitively d Read More…

It will be interesting to see how Housing NSW conducts itself and manages the behaviour of its staff and associates/partners in the forthcoming largest Estate Redevelopment it has ever handled, which is scheduled for the Redfern Waterloo area. The area in question has some 4,500 households living in Read More…

In the NSW the conduct of Housing NSW and some individual Community Housing Providers during the stock transfer process to date has been at distinct variance with Housing NSW’s own Operational Policy EST0006B: Commitment to Service and Code of Conduct. Nor has it been in line with HNSW’s Code of Con Read More…

The NSW Joint Guarantee of Service (JGOS) for people with mental health problems arose from a 1997 partnership between the NSW Housing and Health Departments. In 2003 the signatories were expanded to include the NSW Aboriginal Housing Office, the Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council of NSW Read More…

The NSW Ombudsman, Mr Barbour, has put into words what everyone else who has had to deal with the bureaucracy has known for many decades – that the bureaucracy has morphed the concepts of Integrity and Ethical Behaviour into things demanded of those engaging with the bureaucracy whilst exempting the Read More…

Paul Cheshire’s paper of 17th May 2007, Segregated neighbourhoods and mixed communities, provides an interesting insight into the concept of induced Social Mix currently being implemented in Australia on multiple levels of government writes Ross Smith in TSN’s Rimfire Review on 16 November, 2009.

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A mixed public/private redevelopment plan has gone horribly wrong reports Stephen Pascoe in the Age of 27 July 2010. [REDWatch Comment – Given the similarities between what is proposed for Redfern Waterloo and this Victorian project the issues raised in this article need to be carefully considered i Read More…