One of the ACT’s longest-serving public servants will call time on her career in December after 31 years working for the territory government and its predecessor. Bronwen Overton-Clarke, who has most recently been the territory’s […]
A controversial northside plot of land, currently under investigation, will be developed into public housing. The block, known as Section 72, sits between the Dickson pool and the Majura playing fields on Antill Street. The […]
Who didn’t drive along Cooyong St and look up into the public housing flats and wondered about the people who lived there? Pot plants on balconies, children’s bicycles, political slogans, clothing on washing lines, glimpses […]
Advocates are hopeful the government’s “innovation fund” – which will pilot housing affordability programs already in place across the country – will help ease Canberra’s housing crisis, but say an increase in public housing is […]
As this week is Anti-Poverty Week, it is an important opportunity to highlight how poverty can make it all but impossible to find adequate housing here in Canberra. The latest cost of living report by […]
Affordable housing advocates are calling on the ACT Government to ensure yesterday’s long awaited housing summit is not remembered as a “talk-fest”. The summit and funding announcements were a key requirement of Labor’s Parliamentary Agreement with The Greens in […]
The territory government’s ‘salt and pepper’ approach to public housing is masking the levels of disadvantage felt by 37,000 Canberrans living on an ‘equivalised income’ of $26,000 a year, a new report suggests. The report by […]
AHI Members from the nation’s capital turned out for this year’s AHI Professional Excellence in Housing Awards on 17th October. Hosted by the AHI NSW Director, Francis Brazil, the event coincided with the ACT Government’s […]
An innovative housing option called the Nightingale Model is growing in popularity. It is a different type of housing development project being built in Melbourne that focusses on sustainability and affordability. Could similar housing projects […]
The ACT Government has disappointed community advocates by failing to commit funding for emergency accommodation for the homeless at today’s Housing and Homelessness Summit despite Canberra’s high homelessness rate and increasing demand on community homeless […]
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