Sometimes affordable housing meetings are not always what you expect. Landcom just launched a partnership opportunity through an event focused on the increased supply, diversity and affordability of housing. Dan Gregory, of Gruen Transfer fame, opened proceedings, discussing how we lead change; especially relevant as we are in a sector with the unsolvable solvable problem […]
Church Housing’s Vertical Village project is up and running with approval now given for the research proposal and an ongoing submission of the ethics component through Macquarie university. Planning for the theological underpinning of the project is also underway with topics being formulated and paper writers being approached. For those new to the concept of […]
I’ve been procrastinating writing my minute! For everyone working in our sector, particularly in regards to advocacy and systemic policy change, things can often be more than a little disheartening. So much talk, so much reading, lots of writing, so many meetings and discussions, plus a few elections for, well … often very little discernible […]
Each year, Churches Housing surveys members to assess what’s working and what’s not. Overall, this year’s survey shows that satisfaction is increasing as shown in some random results: 83% of members think we’ve supported them to deliver innovative housing solutions 82% are satisfied to very satisfied that we’re doing a good job public advocacy on […]
At Churches Housing, we are often asked what is the current and forecasted need for affordable housing in greater Sydney and the rest of the State. So, we asked the City Futures research Centre at UNSW to extract these figures from one of their recent reports*. In Sydney at the moment, we need more than […]
Affordable rental housing is not available to those who need it, says new research by the City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, commissioned by the Southern Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils (SSROC). The survey found that Division 3 of the State Environmental Planning Policy (Affordable Rental Housing) 2009 (ARHSEPP) is being used to develop self-contained […]
Community housing providers are being invited to apply for cheaper and longer-secured loans from the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation (NHFIC). To help Tiers 2 and 3 CHPs apply, NHIFC has a grant program that funds professional advisory services providers chosen by the Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA). One such advisory company, Caldrex Capital, […]
