After every major war and depression there has been a push worldwide to address the resulting housing crisis. Unfortunately — as Tone Wheeler chronicles — Australia has missed, or misused,…

A Compact would represent an agreement about how urban renewal is conducted in social housing areas, and how social housing tenants were to be treated and engaged. Bernie Coates explains…

It’s not always easy to have your say in a consultation process. Here are a few things you can do to get your key messages and main concerns on the…

Shelter NSW has produced a factsheet for public tenants facing redevelopment which we have reproduced below. In short it encourages tenants to stay informed, have your say, assert your rights…

The redevelopment of large public housing estates has until now been focused away from the inner city. Redevelopment is now going high-rise, raising many new issues under the government’s Future…

Redevelopment of public housing in NSW is not new. While the proposed redevelopments of Waterloo and Ivanhoe might be high-rise, public housing communities can learn a lot from what has…

Six months after the Waterloo redevelopment announcement tenants know little more and anxiety remains high. Julie Foreman questions what was learnt from other estate redevelopments.

Communities Plus is the NSW Government’s approach to renew and increase the amount of social housing stock in NSW. The approach is being used in the redevelopment of the Ivanhoe…