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Tenant Participation
There are a number of formal mechanisms in which tenants meet with other tenants and HNSW to raise issues which are of concern to them. At the local level Redfern and Waterloo tenants have Neighbourhood Advisory Boards and Housing Standards Committees and other working groups.
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Housing NSW - Future Directions Tenant Participation Program Discussion Paper - March 2008
- This consultation paper outlines a proposed new direction and implementation process for Housing NSW’s Tenant Participation Program (TPP), and specifically the future funding of Tenant Participation Resource Services (TPRS), currently delivered by Regional Tenant Resource Services (RTRS) and Public Tenants Councils (PTC). (94 KB PDF)
- A Tenent Response to Housing NSW - Future Directions Tenant Participation Program Discussion Paper
- The future of Public Tenants Councils are in doubt as a result of the latest proposals from Housing NSW. Here Ross Smith reflects on a recent Housing NSW meeting to look at Future Directions Tenant Participation.
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Dallas Rogers explores 10 tensions between democratic expectations and realities in tenant organising
- In his paper "The NSW State Plan, community participation and affordable housing: Tensions between democracy and market-centric development" delivered at the Annual Marg Barry Memorial Lecture 2012 on 6 December 2012, Dr Dallas Rogers from the Urban Research Centre at University of Western Sydney explores 10 tensions between democratic expectations and democratic realities in tenant organising. In the paper REDWatch is cited as an example of a monitory democracy organisation. The file is 2MB PDF.
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QLD Tenant Participation Program Review 2011
- In July 2010, the Queensland Department of Communities commenced a review of its Tenant Participation program. This review provided the department with an opportunity to consider the fundamental delivery of Tenant Participation for social housing tenants in Queensland. This is the summary report and recommendations. This report has disappeared from the Department's website since the change of Government and it looks unlikely to be implemented. It is potentially of interest to others outside Queensland with an interest in tenant participation. File is 4MB PDF.
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1986 Housing Officer's Training Course on Tenant Participation
- Tenant Participation was a new policy introduced by the Department of Housing in August 1985 to enable public tenants of N.S.W. the opportunity to become involved, and have a greater say, in the planning and management of their homes. It was believed that tenants should be included in the decision making process which directly affects their everyday life. This document is a Housing Officers Training Course in November 1986 spelling out the policy. File is 229 KB PDF.
- Homes NSW to bring Tenant Participation and Community Engagement inhouse
- In the following statement on 27 September 2024, Homes NSW announced that from January 2025 that Homes NSW will take over responsibility for Tenant Participation and Community Engagement (TPCE) activities. This role has previously been provided by independent third parties who has been responsible for facilitating tenant voices. For the last five years TPCE has been run statewide by Mission Australia for government. Prior to that program tenant participation was facilitated locally by Inner Sydney Voice who ran the Tenant Participation Resource Service (TPRS) and Counterpoint Community Services who ran the Redfern Waterloo Housing Communities Program Project (CDP). A complimentary project which was responsible for the community gardens, the University of NSW Community Development Program (UNSW CDP) ended in 2017.
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