Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
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
HNSW are looking for feedback on what people thought of their Preliminary Masterplan engagement program in 2011-12. HNSW say your input will assist them to continue to improve their engagement for future phases of our work in Redfern and Waterloo. File is 78Kb PDF Download: evaluating the core principles.pdf »
In April 2012, Scotland set the bar high after it launched its Social Housing Charter (SHC). The Charter establishes 16 standards and outcomes which all social landlords should achieve for their tenants and other customers. It will affect more than half a million households writes Michael Shreenan i Read More…
The social housing maintenance backlog was reduced from $620 million in 2008/09 to $300 million in 2011, according to the current NSW Housing Minister writes Ross Smith in the Opinion piece in the May 2012 edition of The South Sydney Herald.
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Not a meeting with public tenants goes past without hearing horror stories about preventable problems in public housing writes Geoff Turnbull in the April 2012 edition of The South Sydney Herald.
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Housing NSW has finished the advertised Preliminary Masterplan (PMP) design workshops for Redfern and Waterloo. HNSW will now take this material away and firm up the PMP in light of other research and studies that have happened away from the public discussions. No indication was given to those atten Read More…
Housing NSW have declined a REDWatch request that the Preliminary Masterplan be made public for community consultation before it is reported to the Federal Government by advising that “the preliminary masterplanning is an internal working document exploring options for Housing and Property Group’s m Read More…
THE era of big, new public housing estates is over, according to the state’s Finance Minister – with the O’Farrell government to pursue new public-private partnerships to redevelop NSW’s biggest estates to include a mix of public and private housing reports Josephine Tovey in the Sydney Morning Hera Read More…
Housing NSW has released reports from their November planning workshops for their next round of discussions reports Geoff Turnbull in the South Sydney Herald of February 2012. Read More…
Housing NSW have released the reports from their planning workshops in November as the basis for the next round of discussions. The separate reports for Redfern and Waterloo include details of what came out of the workshop and a summary at the end of the “Ideas for Improvement”. This summary and the Read More…
