Housing and Mental Health Agreement – JGOS Replacement

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…

Integrity, Ethics and the NSW Public Service

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…

Another Brick in the Wall for Public Housing

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…

HNSW Master Planning Approach Chart – June 2010

This is the chart that formed part of the HNSW Newsletters to Redfern and Waterloo tenants on 28 June 2010 explaining how the Federally funded Master Planning Process is expected to work alongside the RWA’s proposed Built Environment Plan Phase 2 (BEP2). Download: Master Plannig Approach – chart FINAL.pdf »

Commonwealth funds to plan renewal in Redfern and Waterloo – HNSW Update June 2010

Housing NSW have rleased an explanation of how the Federally funded Master Planning Process for Redfern and Waterloo will work alongside the RWA BEP2. The explanation is contained in Newsletters distributed to Redfern and Waterloo public housing tenants on 29 June 2010. The text below is accompanied Read More…

Redfern and Waterloo gets $3,856,098 to upgrade 1404 homes

NSW Housing Minister David Borger and Federal Housing Minister Tanya Plibersek today announced that over $9.2 million is being invested in the inner Sydney suburbs of Glebe, Redfern, Waterloo, Marrickville and Sydney to upgrade 3104 social housing homes reports this media release of 14 April 2009 fr Read More…

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