Inner Sydney Voice Magazine runs a broad range of articles written by experts in their field. These articles cover a broad range of topics relevant to inner Sydney including housing, urban issues, civil society and human services. While sometimes we produce special issues, like the one on Redeveloping Public Housing or Making the NDIS work for everyone, there are also important standalone articles in other issues of the magazine relevant to that topic that are often forgotten about even though they are as relevant today as they were when they were published.
Below we have grouped articles together by topics and provide a research / reading list for those wishing to better understand some of the issues faced in inner Sydney.
We have provided a table of contents to the article categories below so you can get an overview and link to that category of articles. Where an article fits into more than one category, we put it in both categories.
Links to article categories
Housing Types and Issues
- Affordable Housing
- Boarding Houses
- Housing Affordability
- Community Housing
- Rental Housing
- Social Housing
Public Housing
- Public Housing – History
- Public Housing – Maintenance
- Public Housing – Policy changes
- Public Housing – Redevelopment
- Millers Point
- Waterloo
Planning and Built Environment Issues
- Community Facilities
- Crime Prevention through Design
- Energy
- Health and Wellbeing
- High-rise Development
- Parking
- Planning in Inner Sydney
- Property Development
- Public Spaces
- Statistics
- Tenure Mix – Social Mix
- Transport
- Universal Design
Planning for People and Social Issues
- Community Development
- Ageing
- Anti-Social Behaviour
- Community Engagement
- Disability Issues
- Domestic Violence
- Drugs and Alcohol
- Health Services
- Human Services
- Mental Health
- Multiculturalism & Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Communities
- Tenant Participation
Human Service Delivery
- Aged Services – My Aged care
- Disability – National Disability Insurance Scheme
- Disability Services
- Mental Health Programs
- NGO Services
- Sector Support
- Youth
Civil Society Issues
- Civil Society Skills
- Community Change Models
- Government
- People
- Planning Campaigns
- Redfern Station
- Volunteers
Inner Sydney Voice – Inner Sydney Regional Council for Social Development
- Inner Sydney Voice (Inner Sydney Regional Council for Social Development)
- Editorials
- From the Vault
- Adds
- Feedback
Links to Inner Sydney Voice Magazine Articles
Housing Types and Issues
- Affordable housing and the planning law debate – AUTUMN 2014
- What is affordable housing and why do we need it? – WINTER 2016
- Legal rights for boarders and lodgers – SPRING 2012
- Boarding House Regulation – Who is winning? – WINTER 2014
- House prices, ownership and affordability: Trends in New South Wales – AUTUMN 2014
- Changing home ownership and growing inequality – AUTUMN 2016
- Housing at the right price, in the right place, with the right amenity – AUTUMN 2015
- Five foundations for youth housing – AUTUMN 2015
- Is Housing Affordability a Foreign or Domestic Investment Problem? – WINTER 2015
- A conflict over how land is imagined and used – SPRING 2016
- Rental reform for housing justice – AUTUMN 2015
- NSW Renting laws under review – SUMMER 2015-16
Social housing includes public, Aboriginal and community housing and not affordable housing – for this document we have not combined these categories. Future Directions for Social Housing in NSW provides the following Social housing definition: Rental housing provided by not-for-profit, non-government or government organisations to assist people who are unable to access suitable accommodation in the private rental market. Social housing includes public, Aboriginal and community housing, as well as other services and products
Public Housing
- Public housing in New South Wales: a brief history – WINTER 2016
- Public Housing May 1984 (From the Vault) – AUTUMN 2014
- Social housing and heritage – AUTUMN 2014
- Not just premises, but homes for tenants (Maintenance)- SPRING 2012
Public Housing – Policy changes
- Director General: Public Housing Challenges – SUMMER 2013-14
- Public Housing in Decline – SUMMER 2013-14
- Audit report key for housing inquiry – AUTUMN 2014
- Select Committee on Social, Public and Affordable Housing – AUTUMN 2014
- From Public Housing to Vouchers: An American Perspective – SPRING 2014
- Social Housing in NSW discussion paper… what is not up for discussion? – SUMMER 2014-15
- Community forum on the Social Housing in NSW Discussion Paper – SUMMER 2014-15
- The future of public housing – AUTUMN 2015
- Work disincentives: the road to worklessness – SPRING 2012
- Future Directions for Social Housing in NSW – Is it good policy? – WINTER 2016
Public Housing – Redevelopment
- More than bricks and mortar: Robyn’s Reflections – WINTER 2016
- Collective learnings from earlier redevelopments – WINTER 2016
- A Compact for Renewal Projects: what tenants want from social housing renewal – WINTER 2017
- Tips on being heard during master planning – WINTER 2017
- Public Housing – on the up and up and up! – WINTER 2016
- Communities Plus – something old something new – WINTER 2016
- Tenant involvement in public housing estate redevelopment – SPRING 2016
- Barangaroo: threatening the local community? – SPRING 2012
- Caught Between The Rocks And A Hard Place – SUMMER 2013-14
- Millers Point & The Rocks – Some places are too upmarket for public housing – WINTER 2014
- Millers Point & The Rocks – A Community fights back – WINTER 2014
- Choice Based Letting – SPRING 2014
- Millers Point and the Rocks: An alternative way forward – SUMMER 2014-15
- The Friends of Millers Point formed – SUMMER 2014-15
- Save the Rocks March 1978 (From the Vault) – WINTER 2014
- What do we know about the Waterloo redevelopment? – WINTER 2017
- Government Undertakings for Waterloo – WINTER 2017
- Who’s Who in Waterloo? – WINTER 2017
- Waterloo Redevelopment Support Projects – WINTER 2017
- Waterloo redevelopment: a storm brewing? – WINTER 2016
- City of Sydney raises planning density concerns – SPRING 2016
- Review: Waterloo the Film 1981 (From the Vault) – SUMMER 2013-14
Planning and Built Environment Issues
- Community Justice Centres: The Road less travelled – AUTUMN 2015
Crime Prevention through Design
- Preventing crime through better design – AUTUMN 2014
- Confronting Fear of Crime – AUTUMN 2014
- Not the electricity! Energy saving tips – SPRING 2012
- Reducing redevelopment impact on health and wellbeing – WINTER 2016
- Creating healthy built environments – WINTER 2014
- The Pyrmont and Ultimo Experience – SUMMER 2013-14
- City of Sydney raises planning density concerns – SPRING 2016
- Car parking and inner city planning – SUMMER 2014-15
- New alternatives to car ownership – WINTER 2015
- The Shapers of Things to Come – SUMMER 2013-14
- Citizens’ rights to the global city – SUMMER 2014-15
- A guide to achieving good precinct planning outcomes – WINTER 2015
- The changing face of the Inner City: Population and Household Projections – SPRING 2014
- Seeing RED – Spring 2003 (From the Vault) – SPRING 2016
- An overview of property development – SUMMER 2014-15
- Assessing New Development to see how it supports Health and Wellbeing – WINTER 2014
- Creating healthy built environments – WINTER 2014
- Spaces to play – SUMMER 2015-16
- Open spaces make happy faces – AUTUMN 2014
- Better Block – WINTER 2014
- Statistics: Keeping Up With Change – SUMMER 2013-14
- The changing face of the Inner City: Population and Household Projections – SPRING 2014
- Social Mix and the Challenges in Creating It – WINTER 2016
- What is a “Better Social Mix”? – Spring 2003 – WINTER 2017
- Towards the transport revolution Sydney needs – WINTER 2015
- How does public transport stack up against motorways? – WINTER 2015
- Trams: Rebuilding what was lost – WINTER 2015
- Will WestConnex take its toll? – WINTER 2015
- What a difference a ride makes – WINTER 2015
- From a ‘done deal’ to ‘no deal’: defeating Melbourne’s East West Link – SPRING 2015
- Reply to Freeway Lobby May 1978 (From the Vault) – AUTUMN 2015
- Saving Public Transport March 1978 (From the Vault) – WINTER 2015
Universal Design: Creating inclusion for everyone – SPRING 2014
Planning for People and Social Issues
- Seize the opportunity of crisis to rebuild community – SUMMER 2015-16
- Strata skills help create communities – SUMMER 2015-16
- Community Development: Standing with dissent – SUMMER 2015-16
- Time to Change – SUMMER 2015-16
- Community Development in Hunters Hill: What can be achieved by a community garden and art project – SUMMER 2015-16
- Building community in new social housing – SUMMER 2015-16
- Marg Barry and noisy minorities – SUMMER 2015-16
- Vintage Marg Barry – Forward to the Future Spring 1995 (From the Vault) – SUMMER 2015-16
- ISV Celebrating 40 years of Community Development – SPRING 2016
- ISV Celebrating 40 years of Public participation – past present and future – SPRING 2016
- Seen but not heard: older people ignored – AUTUMN 2015
- Seniors: an increasingly important part of communities – AUTUMN 2016
- Your voice your rights: Ageing and the law – AUTUMN 2016
- What is elder abuse? – AUTUMN 2016
- Older renters: The new face of poverty – AUTUMN 2016
- Older women and homelessness: the fight continues – SPRING 2012
- Mental health as we age – AUTUMN 2016
- Beyond the clutter – SUMMER 2015-16
- Preventing falls – AUTUMN 2016
- Not so Aboriginal Home Care? – SUMMER 2014-15
- The role of community in Aboriginal Aged Care – AUTUMN 2016
- Inner Sydney Voice – Support for Aged and Disability Services – SPRING 2016
- Five key changes to social housing laws – WINTER 2016
- The Real Stuff of Community Engagement – SUMMER 2013-14
- Participation Tools and Social Context – SUMMER 2013-14
- Engaging With Communities: Something’s Not Right – SUMMER 2013-14
- The challenge of community engagement – SUMMER 2015-16
- UrbanGrowth NSW: Participation a Key to City Transformation – SPRING 2015
- Leading-practice community engagement: some ideas for UrbanGrowth NSW – SUMMER 2015-16
- Community engagement or community capture – WINTER 2015
- Public Participation – Summer 1993-94 (From the Vault) – WINTER 2016
- Property crime decline – AUTUMN 2014
- No reason for a ‘law and order’ election – AUTUMN 2015
- Inclusion of young children with developmental delay and/or disability. – SUMMER 2016-17
- Starting school for children with disabilities – SUMMER 2016-17
- Cognitive Disability and the Justice system – SUMMER 2016-17
- Disability Images – Summer 1994 (From the Vault) – SUMMER 2016-17
- Let’s talk about domestic violence – SPRING 2015
- Violence Puts Women On The Street – AUTUMN 2013
- Community Drug Action Teams – Condone or condemn? – SPRING 2014
- Alcohol in our community – SUMMER 2014-15
- Dispensing a Safer, Healthier Redfern – AUTUMN 2013
- Northcott Sharps Bins – AUTUMN 2013
- Medication Management in the Community – WINTER 2015
- Once It’s Gone, It’s Gone. – AUTUMN 2013
- Shock Treatment – AUTUMN 2013
- A New Face For Advocacy? – AUTUMN 2013
- Help in navigating the health system – AUTUMN 2016
- Beyond Walls: My Mondays in Waterloo – AUTUMN 2014
- Ageing & Disability: Challenges in moving from Block funding to Unit funding – AUTUMN 2014
- Can the people problems be fixed by estate redevelopment? – WINTER 2016
- The case for case management in the community – SUMMER 2014-15
- All things – great and small – SUMMER 2014-15
- The furphy of human services sustainability – WINTER 2015
- Working together for a fairer NSW – AUTUMN 2015
- On the politics of income management – SPRING 2012
- Mental health in NSW is everyone’s business – SPRING 2015
- Poems on the mental health experience by Wayne Haddon – SPRING 2015
- Social isolation and mental health during ageing – SPRING 2015
- A Journey through the Public Health System – WINTER 2014
- Mental health as we age – AUTUMN 2016
- Cognitive Disability and the Justice system – SUMMER 2016-17
- Mental Health Rights Spring 1993 (From the Vault) – SPRING 2015
Multiculturalism & Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Communities
- Rethinking multiculturalism – SUMMER 2014-15
- Bilingual workers: easing the transition to HACC – SPRING 2012
- A view from the back of the bus: a reflection on the need for a culturally responsive NDIS – SUMMER 2016-17
- The erosion of tenants’ voices – SPRING 2012
- Bringing into focus tenant engagement – SPRING 2012
- NABs: Giving Public Tenants a Voice – SPRING 2014
- Inner West Tenant Group: Bringing tenants together – SUMMER 2015-16
- Inner Sydney Voice – Support for public and social housing tenants – SPRING 2016
Human Service Delivery
- Understanding Aged Care Assessments – WINTER 2014
- What is ACAT? – AUTUMN 2016
- What is My Aged Care? – AUTUMN 2016
- Home but not Alone – HACC – Spring 1994 (From the Vault) – AUTUMN 2016
Disability – National Disability Insurance Scheme
- NSW Disability Reform: In Context – SUMMER 2013-14
- Disability agenda for the NSW Government – AUTUMN 2015
- Introduction to the NDIS – SUMMER 2016-17
- Understanding NDIS terms – SUMMER 2016-17
- It’s Your NDIS – SUMMER 2016-17
- A view from the back of the bus: a reflection on the need for a culturally responsive NDIS – SUMMER 2016-17
- My choice matters – SUMMER 2014-15
- My Choice Matters – Training opens doors – SUMMER 2016-17
- Ability Links: Building inclusive communities – SUMMER 2016-17
- The importance of pre-planning (Sylvanvale) – SUMMER 2016-17
- Tailored Information and Advocacy Services for People with a Disability (IDEAS) – SUMMER 2016-17
- Local service profile: Holdsworth Community – SUMMER 2016-17
- Inner Sydney Voice – Support for Aged and Disability Services – SPRING 2016
- Providing a helping hand to those affected by mental illness – SPRING 2015
- A Helping Hand for Mental Health – AUTUMN 2014
- City Cadre Connect – SPRING 2015
- Inner City Team Marbles challenge – SPRING 2015
- Books for Better Mental Health – AUTUMN 2016
- Building Social Connections: #justsayhisydney – AUTUMN 2016
- Care 2 Converse: Inspiring Conversations between Strangers – SPRING 2015
- A New Home For Old Neighbours – AUTUMN 2013
- New community hub opens in Randwick – SPRING 2012
- More trips, more buses for community transport – SPRING 2012
- So, you want to employ a consultant. – SUMMER 2016-17
- Stopping Burnout – SPRING 2014
- Working with the media : An insider’s view – SPRING 2015
- The ‘con’ in conference – SPRING 2012
- Dancing in the streets for equal pay – SPRING 2012
- Creative Impact – AUTUMN 2013
Civil Society Issues
- How to Lobby your MPs – WINTER 2014
- In the Jury we Trust (Citizens Jurys) – WINTER 2014
- Sydney Alliance: Building Civil Society Differently – WINTER 2014
- Turning outwards to listen to communities (LCA & Harwood Institute) – WINTER 2015
- Local Government Matters – SPRING 2016
- NSW election boundary changes – SUMMER 2014-15
- Ross Smith: A life spent in service to the community – SUMMER 2016-17
- Vale John Mac – SPRING 2014
- Farewell To An Action Man – AUTUMN 2013
- A Local Hero and His Partner in Preventing Crime – AUTUMN 2013
- Farewell Mary Waterford – AUTUMN 2015
- The battle to save Rozelle – SPRING 2012
- A Letter to the Minister (PUSH) – AUTUMN 2013
- Bays Precinct people’s campaign – SUMMER 2014-15
- A Better Plan? – AUTUMN 2013
- A New Planning Approach to Community Participation – SUMMER 2013-14
- Two houses colliding – AUTUMN 2014
- Planning for People Charter – SPRING 2014
- Achieving effective strategic urban and regional planning – AUTUMN 2015
- Eveleigh Plans 1979 (From the Vault) – SPRING 2014
- A new airport for Sydney October 1979 (From the Vault) – SUMMER 2014-15
- Makeover of Redfern Station? 1994 (Vault) – AUTUMN 2013
- Up, up and away: Lift Redfern – SPRING 2012
- From the public gallery – SPRING 2012
- Lift Redfern: The Art of Conversation – SUMMER 2013-14
- Volunteering: all about the bottom line? – SPRING 2012
Inner Sydney Voice – Inner Sydney Regional Council for Social Development
Inner Sydney Voice (Inner Sydney Regional Council for Social Development)
- What is Inner Sydney Regional Council? – SPRING 2014
- Celebrating 40 years – A Brief History of the Inner Sydney Regional Council – SPRING 2016
- Inner Sydney Regional Council 40th Anniversary – SUMMER 2015-16
- Celebrating 40 years of Information and Resources – SPRING 2016
- Celebrating 40 years of Committee Members and Volunteers – SPRING 2016
- Celebrating 40 years – The Regional Council as a social movement – SPRING 2016
- Celebrating 40 years – Community Development – SPRING 2016
- Celebrating 40 years – Public participation – past present and future – SPRING 2016
- Inner Sydney Voice – Support for public and social housing tenants – SPRING 2016
- Inner Sydney Voice – Support for Aged and Disability Services – SPRING 2016
- Editorial Summer 2013-14 – SUMMER 2013-14
- Editorial Inner Sydney Voice – Autumn 2014 – AUTUMN 2014
- Editorial Inner Sydney Voice – Winter 2014 – WINTER 2014
- Editorial Inner Sydney Voice Spring 2014 – SPRING 2014
- Editorial Inner Sydney Voice Summer 2014-15 – SUMMER 2014-15
- ISV Editorial – Autumn 2015 – AUTUMN 2015
- ISV Editorial – Winter 2015 – WINTER 2015
- Editorial – Spring 2015 – Inner Sydney Voice – SPRING 2015
- Editorial Summer 2015-16 – SUMMER 2015-16
- Editorial Autumn 2016 – AUTUMN 2016
- Editorial Winter 2016 – WINTER 2016
- Editorial Spring 2016 – SPRING 2016
- Editorial Summer 2016-17 – SUMMER 2016-17
- Editorial Winter 2017 – WINTER 2017
- Makeover of Redfern Station? 1994 From the Vault – AUTUMN 2013
- Review: Waterloo the Film – from Inner Voice 1981 – SUMMER 2013-14
- Public Housing May 1984 – One from the Vault – AUTUMN 2014
- Save the Rocks March 1978 – One from the Vault – WINTER 2014
- Eveleigh Plans – One from the Vault 1979 – SPRING 2014
- A new airport for Sydney – From the vault October 1979 – SUMMER 2014-15
- Reply to Freeway Lobby – From the Vault – Inner Voice May 1978 – AUTUMN 2015
- Saving Public Transport – WINTER 2015
- From the Vault – Mental Health Rights – Spring 1993 – SPRING 2015
- Vintage Marg Barry – Forward to the Future – Spring 1995 – SUMMER 2015-16
- Home but not Alone – HACC – Spring 1994 – AUTUMN 2016
- Public Participation – Summer 1993-94 – WINTER 2016
- Seeing RED – Spring 2003 – SPRING 2016
- Disability Images – Summer 1994 – SUMMER 2016-17
- What is a “Better Social Mix”? – Spring 2003 – WINTER 2017
- Surry Hills Northcott Community Shed – SUMMER 2016-17
- Race and Abuse Speak Out Hotline – SUMMER 2014-15
- Deadly healthy bubs: a new parenting book for Aboriginal families – SPRING 2012
- Reader Survey 2016 – SPRING 2016
Last Updated by Inner Sydney Voice July 2017
