Community Housing Providers (CHPs) will manage new social housing in Waterloo South. All three of the CHPs are already housing tenants from Waterloo South relocations, even though City West is not managing any Homes NSW owned social housing. You can find out more about the CHPs and their policies prior to the meeting on the websites for Link-Wentworth, Birribee Housing and City West Housing.

REDWatch has provided the CHPs with some tenant questions (see later in this email) and in our last email we also provided some broader questions about issues CHPs need to address over coming months (also repeated later in this email). There will be an opportunity to raise questions at the meeting.

So come along and hear from the CHPs on Thursday 6^th August 2026 from 6:00 – 7:30pm at Counterpoint’s Factory Community Centre 67 Raglan Street Waterloo or join us online on Zoom http://tinyurl.com/RedwatchMeetingZoom. 

You can promote this meeting electronically by sharing our Facebook post or flyer or asking Navin for a poster at The Factory.

What is Social Housing?

This REDWatch CHP meeting will focus on social housing. Given the confusion about the terms like public and social housing, the Waterloo Redevelopment Group in 2024 requested the Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA) to prepare a Social Housing Factsheet which is on the REDWatch website. This may be helpful in explaining some of the key differences between Public, Aboriginal and Community housing models leading into the coming REDWatch meeting. This sheet compares ownership, management, dwellings under management, eligibility for Commonwealth Rent Assistance, regulation and complaints across the three different types of social housing.

We will leave the complexities of affordable housing for another meeting but for some information on the differences between social and affordable see AHURI’s Brief What is the difference between social housing and affordable housing - and why do they matter?