Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
Improving ‘social mix’ is at the heart of NSW Government plans for Redfern Waterloo. Worldwide there have been many attempts to implement a better ‘social mix’ through the redevelopment of public hous
Ms Kenworthy’s study – along with extensive research by Western Sydney academic Gabrielle Gwyther, published in the recent edition of the journal Urban Policy and Research – challenges 30 years of conventional wisdom. Over the past 10 to 15 years, NSW government policy has been to break up the estat Read More…
REDWatch, as well as a number of other stakeholders from Redfern and Waterloo, have requested research material on the topic of social mix. Below is a preliminary overview of some of the material available, with a focus on material that is available for download free of charge. It is proposed that m Read More…
On 26 August 2010 HNSW held a Community Renewal Forum for Redfern & Waterloo titles “Estate Renewal and Social Mix: The good, the bad and the ugly”. Below is the HNSW Report on Proceedings of the forum which was provided to participants on 18 November 2010. Read More…
Claytons is an alcohol free syrup marketed as ‘the drink you have when you don’t have a drink’. It gives the appearance of an alcoholic drink without the undesirable after effects of alcohol consumption such as hangovers, nausea, and regrets for actions whilst under the influence writes Ross Smith i Read More…
Social Mix is a generic buzzword term used by various governments to disguise their policy failures. Failures that have resulted in Poverty, Inequality and Inequity becoming endemic in some sectors of the community. The term is used to create images of manufactured nirvana in the suburbs and to port Read More…
This paper by David Lilley responds to a number of papers given at the Shelter 2010 Conference ‘Estates in the balance: best practice in redevelopment and regeneration of public housing estates’ on Social Mix and de-concentration. David’s comments in this paper were referenced in the REDWatch paper following David’s presentation on behalf of HNSW to … Read more
Urgent action is required not only from developers and planners to address the concerns of people living in greater density, but from the residents themselves. This warning has emerged from a report which Shelter NSW recently commissioned from the City Futures Research Centre at the University of Ne Read More…
In 2009 HNSW began the process of transferring 3,000 of its properties to community housing providers across the state and hopes to finish the transfer this year. Now many HNSW residents wait with bated breath to find out if their tenancies will stay with the Government or will be transferred on to Read More…
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.
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…
Down-at-heel housing estates in the inner city and on the western fringes are fighting back, writes Michael Duffy in the Sydney Morning Herald of August 2, 2008. Read More…