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This is a copy of the DCJ response to Audit found in Appendix A of the June 2025 Performance Audit of DCJ Housing now Homes NSW. The letter provides the DCJ acceptance of the Audit recommendations and makes comments on each recommendation. This PDF includes the image of the DCJ Letter appearing in the Audit … Read more

This is a copy of the REDWatch submission in January 2025 in response to the Homes NSW Discussion Paper to inform the Homes for NSW Plan. With input cutting off in February for both a Homes NSW Homelessness Strategy paper and an Audit Office enquiry into Homelessness and Social Housing, this submission may assist some … Read more

This is the Short Discussion Paper released by Homes NSW on 3 December 2024 for feedback until 20 December 2024. Homes NSW say this 2 page document is most relevant to community and consumers and contains 5 questions Homes NSW wanted feedback on. Download: 241129_HomesNSW_CondensedPaper_4_FINAL_APPROVED_ACCESSIBLE.pdf »

This is the Long Discussion Paper released by Homes NSW on 3 December 2024 for feedback until 20 December 2024. Homes NSW say this 28 page document is most relevant to to partners and housing or homelessness providers and contains 10 questions Homes NSW wanted feedback on. Download: 241129_HomesNSW_DiscussionPaper_11_FINAL_APPROVED_ACCESSIBLE.pdf »

This is a map from May 2021 showing Land and Housing Corporation (LAHC) properties in the City of Sydney. LAHC own the land on which public and some social housing is located. The map is produced from the City of Sydney property records. Earlier in 2021 the NSW made available the locations of publicly owned … Read more

This presentation was given to the REDWatch Forum on 6 July 2017 by Vivienne Milligan. It provides an overview of the origins and history of public housing in NSW and some indication of where it might be going. Download: Public Housing History Milligan.pdf »

This is a copy of a one and a half hour walking tour of the historic suburb of Waterloo produced by the Department of Housing in 1988. While it includes some of the consolidated estate it primarily covers the Waterloo heritage housing. Download: Waterloo Walk DoH 1988.pdf »

Did you know that every floor of Matavai and Turanga was fitted out differently in commemeration of Capain Cook. This 28 page booklet documents the themes and artifacts that were provided for each floor in this state of the art development. Download: Matavai and Turanga – Housing Commission Booklet – Very Small.pdf »

This is a copy of the June 2015 Waterloo Low Rise Building Safety Audit report is released, conducted by Waterloo Neighbourhood Board lead by Counterpoint Download: Waterloo Low Rise Buildings Safety Audit – Final Version.pdf »

This is the Relocation Fact sheet provided for tenants in government owned properties in Millers Point, the Sirius building and Gloucester Street in the Rocks by Housing NSW. File is 70KB PDF. Download: Relocation Fact Sheet.pdf »

The NSW Government & Land and Housing Corporation (LAHC) the owner of public housing also produced a media pack in addition to the widely available media release from Pru Goward last Wednesday. Unlike the media release the media pack is not available on line. This media pack is attached and provides a good insight into … Read more

This is the letter from Family and Community Services Housing NSW that Millers Point tenants received had delivered on Wednesday 19 March, or found shoved under their door. Imagine how you would react if you received such a letter in similar circumstances. It is no wonder people were wandering the streets in shock! Download: Millers … Read more

This is the Social Impact Assessment commissioned by Land and Housing Corporation which the community was told it would be shown before it was used by Government. It was released along with the Government response after the Minister announced public Housing in millers Point and Rocks would be sold off. The Government response rejected a … Read more

This is the Government response to the the Government comissioned Social Impact Assessment undertaken for Millers Point. The Social Impact Assessment and the Government resposne were released after the Minister anounced that public housing in Millers Point and the Rocks would be sold. Download: Millers_Point_Government_Response_to_SIA.pdf »

Tenant Participation was a new policy introduced by the Department of Housing in August 1985 to enable public tenants of N.S.W. the opportunity to become involved, and have a greater say, in the planning and management of their homes. It was believed that tenants should be included in the decision making process which directly affects … Read more

This Good Practice Guide describes the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) approach to measuring impact using examples from our own case studies, as well as showing how to maximise the impact of applied social science research. It is a useful resource for both researchers and those being researched. File is 205KB PDF. Download: … Read more

In his paper “The NSW State Plan, community participation and affordable housing: Tensions between democracy and market-centric development” delivered at the Annual Marg Barry Memorial Lecture 2012 on 6 December 2012, Dr Dallas Rogers from the Urban Research Centre at University of Western Sydney explores 10 tensions between democratic expectations and democratic realities in tenant … Read more

In July 2010, the Queensland Department of Communities commenced a review of its Tenant Participation program. This review provided the department with an opportunity to consider the fundamental delivery of Tenant Participation for social housing tenants in Queensland. This is the summary report and recommendations. This report has disappeared from the Department’s website since the … Read more

his is a copy of the 2012 Waterloo Safety Audit report is released, conducted by Waterloo Neighbourhood Advisory Board lead by City of Sydney Council Download: Waterloo Safety Audit – December 2012.pdf »

Following approaches from REDWatch about the non release of the HAF funded Preliminary Master Plan and the associated HNSW/DFS performance reports Tanya Plibersek made the attached representation to Brendan O’Connor MP the Federal Minister for Housing and Homelessness. On 28 September REDWatch was advised by DFS that “Our colleagues at the Commonwealth, Managing the HAF … Read more