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 housing estates. In Melbourne in 2010 a trumpeted development to improve ‘social mix’ in an inner city housing estate looks like it might lead to a wall to protect private housing amenity from the adjoining public tenants after the redevelopment. Here we have bought together some of the research and issues that will need to be addressed if an engineered improved housing mix is going to lead to improved outcomes for public tenants as well as the new residents in Redfern and Waterloo. The documents include papers given to the Shelter Conference ‘Estates in the balance’, relevant media articles and opinion pieces that open up some of the issues that need to be addressed. Thanks to Ross Smith for suppling much of the material.
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- Deconcentration, social mix and poverty
"What is the problem that mixed tenure redevelopment policies are attempting to solve?" asks Michael Darcy in the extract below from his Presentation to Shelter NSW conference, ‘Estates in the balance’, in Sydney, 17 June 2010. - Estate redevelopment / regeneration: what are the issues for tenants?
Gregor Macfie, Executive Officer, Tenants’ Union of NSW outlines the five issues that he think will be important to low income and disadvantaged tenants affected by social mix redevelopment in the extract below from his Presentation to Shelter NSW conference, ‘Estates in the balance’, in Sydney, 17 - Questions about ‘Estates in the balance’ from Shelter NSW 2010 conference
During the Shelter NSW conference – ‘Estates in the balance’ on 17 June 2010 participants were encouraged to write down their questions and place them on the wall outside. Many were not answered at the conference. Many of the questions give a good overview of the concerns of participants and many ap - Regenerating Estates – setting the context and scoping the task
Simon Pinnegar of City Futures Research Centre, UNSW, examines the NSW proposals, reviews overseas experiences, and raises concerns around the desired purpose and intent of the current Housing NSW planning. He sets out various areas of concern around arbitrary Estate Regeneration and forced Social M - Research Articles on Social Mix
Below is a list of references for relevant theoretical and empirical papers relating to de-concentration and social mix prepared by Housing NSW. A link to a second document containing links to material available online is at the foot of this page. This list has been prepared by HNSW and supplied as - Social Mix – What is it – What is achieved
Dr Kathy Arthurson of Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity, Flinders University raised concerns around the concept of Social Mix and the manner of its proposed implementation by Housing NSW and the NSW Governmentin her presentation to Shelter NSW conference, ‘Estates in the balance’, i - Tenants’ choice or Hobson’s choice: A study of the transfer of tenanted dwellings from public housing to community housing in NSW
The transfer of housing stock from Public Housing to Community Housing is on the Government agenda for the redevelopment of Redfern and Waterloo public housing. In 2000 Shelter NSW requested Michael Darcy and Jill Stringfellow from the Urban Frontiers Program at the University of Western Sydney to i - The state of Australian cities 2010 report – towards a national research agenda
In response to the Federal "The State of Australian Cities 2010" report AHURI as the national research institute focussed on housing and urban matters is inviting responses to the proposed research priorities. As well, through a series of urban policy seminars occurring across the capital cities AHU