Redfern, Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo Watch
A coalition of residents, workers, business, disability and community groups demands immediate action to ensure access at one of Sydneyʼs busiest railway stations as disabled and less mobile community members continue to be shut off from the transport network says this media release from Lift Redfer Read More…
FOR as long as he can remember, wheelchair user and street vendor for The Big Issue, Eddie, has backtracked the long way to his office in Redfern because the station doesn’t have lifts reports James Gorman in Central Magazine on 24 April 2012. Read More…
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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In March the SSH revealed that the RWA had secured funding in April 2010 from the Federal Housing Affordability Fund. While this was only finalised earlier this year the SMDA has been preparing plans to deliver 61 affordable housing units at North Eveleigh by December 2014 reports Geoff Turnbull in Read More…
Since 2006 the RWA had a policy for collecting affordable housing developer contributions in Redfern Waterloo but had no public policy about what it meant by affordable housing or how it would be managed. With $33m expected to be in the kitty by 2013 the Sydney Metropolitan Development Authority (SM Read More…
The Lift Redfern Station Campaign exceeded its 10,000 signature target. The petitions will be handed over to Heffron MP Kristina Keneally on 2 May for tabling and debate in parliament reports Geoff Turnbull in the May 2012 edition of The South Sydney Herald. Read More…
ALEXANDRIA: Public transport and parking issues took the spotlight at the Alexandria Traffic Forum this month, as residents voiced their concerns over the area’s transport problems. The forum was attended by members of the Council, Sydney Buses, the NSW Department of Transport, transport consultants Read More…
ALP state conference will not pick its next Sydney Lord Mayoral candidate. All households in the Local Government Area will receive a postal ballot in May allowing residents to vote on the ALP candidate reports Geoff Turnbull in the May 2012 edition of The South Sydney Herald. Read More…
In the letter below in the May 2012 edition of The South Sydney Herald the Sydney University Vice Chancellor responded to two articles in the April Issue of South Sydney Herald. We have also included the text of the Vice Chanellors add in the same SSH issue below. Read More…