Millers Point Community Defence Group
Three exisiting Millers Point Groups are cooperating through an overall mechanism called The Miller’s Point Community Defence Group. Read More…
Public Housing
Redfern Waterloo is home to many public housing tenants. Changes in both Federal and NSW Government funding and policy over the years is seeing increased pressure on public tenants and on the suburbs
Redfern Sales likely to follow Millers Point – SMH Editorial
In the Editorial below the Sydney Morning Herald on 21 March 2014 flags Redfern along with Glebe and Kirribilli as being other areas where sales of public housing are likely. Read More…
O’Farrell government ignored consultants’ advice on plan to sell public housing at Millers Points
The O’Farrell government ignored advice from its own consultants on how to evict vulnerable tenants from Millers Point public housing with minimal damage to their health and wellbeing reports Nicole Hasham and Leesha McKenny in the Sydney morning herald of 21 March 2014. Read More…
Millers Point “Moving to a New Home” Letter
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
State accused of ‘social clensing’ in inner city-sale
The O’Farrell government will not rule out selling millions of dollars worth of public housing at prime sites in inner Sydney after a decision to force out tenants in 300 harbourside properties reported Nicole Hasham and Leesha McKenny in the paper edition of the Sydney Morning Herald of 20 March 2 Read More…
Millers Point Social Impact Assessment
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
Government response to Millers Point SIA
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 »
1986 Housing Officer’s Training Course on Tenant Participation
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
Good Practice Guide: Measuring and Maximising Research Impact in Applied Social Science Research Settings
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
Dallas Rogers explores 10 tensions between democratic expectations and realities in tenant organising
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