Urban planners and government policy makers often advocate having a social mix within a particular spatially defined area, such as in neighbourhoods with high concentrations of public housing. Kathy Arthurson…
Posted In: #129 Winter 2016, #132 Winter 2017, Planning and Built Environment Issues, Tenure Mix – Social Mix,
No matter who you are or how you will be affected, the redevelopment of Waterloo will present personal and community challenges explains Elizabeth Harris.
Posted In: #129 Winter 2016, #132 Winter 2017, Health and Wellbeing, Health Services, Planning and Built Environment Issues, Urban Development,
Estate renewal and housing mix is portrayed by government as a fix-all for public housing estates. Geoff Turnbull asks can new buildings alone really address the problems created when government…
Posted In: #129 Winter 2016, #132 Winter 2017, Anti-Social Behaviour, Community Sector, Domestic Violence, Drugs and Alcohol, Health Services, Human Services, Mental Health, Planning for People and Social Issues,
The announcement, just before Christmas 2015, that Waterloo would get a Metro Station coupled with the redevelopment of their public housing estate has created much anxiety among public tenants. Six…
Posted In: #129 Winter 2016, Editorials, Inner Sydney Voice – ISRCSD,
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…
Posted In: #129 Winter 2016, #132 Winter 2017, Housing Types and Issues, Public Housing, Public Housing – Redevelopment, Urban Development,
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…
Posted In: #129 Winter 2016, #132 Winter 2017, Community Development, Housing Types and Issues, Planning for People and Social Issues, Public Housing, Public Housing – Redevelopment,
It is nice to know that public participation was fashionable in the summer of 1993/4 as recorded by Inner Voice. Twenty plus years on, with Westconnex and little dialogue with…
Posted In: #129 Winter 2016, Community Engagement, From the Vault, Inner Sydney Voice – ISRCSD, Planning for People and Social Issues,
Anti-social behaviour and how to tackle it has been a contentious issue in public housing. On one side is people’s right to “quiet enjoyment” of their tenancies and on the…
Posted In: #129 Winter 2016, Anti-Social Behaviour, Community Housing, Housing Types and Issues, Judicial System, Planning for People and Social Issues, Public Housing, Social Housing,
The redevelopment of public housing estates and the management of tenants will take place within the context of the recently released Future Directions policy. Peter Phibbs while acknowledging the importance…
Posted In: #129 Winter 2016, #132 Winter 2017, Housing Types and Issues, Public Housing, Public Housing – Policy changes, Research,