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Community Housing Tenant Network
The network was started in 2005 to increase the opportunities for community housing tenants to learn about tenant participation and to get involved themselves. It was initially funded through a Community Development and Resourcing Grant from the Office of Community Housing. The project was initiated by four Housing Associations (Garrigal, Western Suburbs, St. George and Hume), who quickly extended an invitation to join the network to tenants of other metro area associations.
The principle behind the network was that there were creative, inspirational examples of tenant involvement amongst many of the housing associations in NSW, particularly in some of the Metropolitan associations. Yet there were few opportunities for housing association tenants to meet up and learn from each other. Many Housing Association tenants were isolated and were not fully accessing the opportunities for participation already available. |
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Aims
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Aims
Tenants developed these aims:
- To get tenants’ organisations to come together as a collaborative group and form a network for community housing tenants’ groups
- To work towards the involvement of all community housing tenants
- To become a tenant led network
- To break down the isolation felt by individual tenants’ organisations
- To share information about successful projects and learn from other tenants’ experience
- To promote effective tenant participation in the community housing sector
- To link up with the wider tenants movement
- To encourage and support tenant leaders
- To promote educational and training opportunities to support tenant participation in the sector
- To represent the interests of all Community Housing tenants
- To comment and have input on Office of Community Housing and wider government policy matters
Tenants from different Metro associations worked hard as a core group of able and committed tenants have been attending and guiding the Federation’s work as a steering group. The Tenant Network has now elect its first Representative Committee which will begin to take on additional responsibilities as they start to represent tenants’ views from across the region.
In the next financial year we will explore the possibilities for expanding the Network to cover the whole of NSW.
New Tenant Network Constitution
Tenant Network (draft) Strategic Plan 2008-11
Tenant Network (draft) Action Plan 2008-09
Community Housing Tenant News:
Upcoming Events:
Presentations from previous workshops:
Housing and the environment (23 March 2009):
Tenant Network AGM (22 June 2009):
Representative Committee Meetings |
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Housing Association Tenant Newsletters:
North Coast Community Housing Co - Dec 2009
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