COMMUNITY & SOCIAL HOUSING
INVOLVING social housing tenants in policy and practice development that impact them leads to better outcomes, from better services provided to a stronger sense of...
According to new research from AHURI, including a social housing tenant voice in policy can lead to a range of positive benefits, particularly as tenants are...
“The guiding principle for tenant participation is that those most affected by a policy or organisational decision ought to be involved in the decision making process,”...
“Internationally, there is a relatively well-established understanding that complex systems, such as social housing systems, require the viewpoints of multiple stakeholders and...
While international strategies have found that participation provides tenants increased autonomy over their living conditions, fosters the acquisition and development of...
Gaining these skills can help highly vulnerable groups in social housing with education, employment and societal engagement...
[Keys for successful tenant program and outcomes] include understanding that tenants and housing providers can have different ideas of what participation should look like...
“The culture of the organisations involved in these programs, together with broader public beliefs, can shape the way that people living with housing assistance and...
“In some cases, there can be an underlying belief that welfare recipients, such as social housing tenants, don’t deserve having a voice at the table...
With transparency provided round how information that has been co-developed is used in policy design and innovation or why their contribution wasn’t utilised...
The Community Housing Industry Association Victoria recently called on the state government of Victoria to invest a further $6 billion into...
With the majority of Australians reporting to supporting social housing reforms, with a new Essential Research poll finding more than four in 10 believe the...