Allocations to the new Housing development in Redfern East

The following information about housing in the new Redfern East redevelopment situated at Philip, Walker, Kettle and Morehead Streets Redfern was provided to prospective public tenants. While the ballot is now past we are providing this information on the REDWatch website so people can see the alloc Read More…

Claytons Based Consultancy: A Housing NSW Specialty

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…

What Should Happen regarding Consultation on BEP2

REDWatch is concerned that the RWA will follow the same process used for their earlier Built Environment Plan (BEP) for BEP2 covering the public housing areas of Redfern and Waterloo. The earlier process involved removing the area from the control of council and only allowing a statutory exhibition. Read More…

Council Draft LEP Consultation with RWA & HNSW

In preparing the Draft CoS LEP covering the public housing estate areas of Redfern and Waterloo the Council was required to have Consultation with Government departments, adjoining councils and other bodies under section 62 of EP&A Act. This report which was Appendix J in the documents that went to Council on 6 September 2010 says … Read more

Social Mix does not cure poverty, inequality or inequity

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…

Public housing de-concentration: a practitioner’s view

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

HNSW Redfern Update August 2010

In early September Housing NSW released separate August 2010 Updates on HNSW activities in Redfern and Waterloo. Both Updates contained the article on HNSW’s pre-development baseline survey titled “Community Survey – a chance to win”. The Updates also contained details of the new Housing Teams servi Read More…

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