Catch22 wrote:
Remember, you need statistics to be a combination of government owned housing + housing owned and/or leased and sublet by charitable and commercial social housing operators + areas where Centrelink shows rent assistance payments. It's not always a single source.

Also, affordable housing is always put in places where the average income per head of population is below the norm. Because Sunshine (and many parts of Brimbank) scores top on almost all levels of disadvantage, the bureaucrats feel justified in recommending more affordable housing for suburbs already affordable in the private market.

We all know that Sunshine retailers have a much lower profit margin than retailers in 'wealthier' suburbs because the population can't buy enough to give them a better margin. This means that living as well as renting in Sunshine becomes more affordable.

It's Catch22 isn't it? Because you have disadvantage you get more disadvantage which brings more disadvantage. Perhaps a rethink on housing strategy might be in order?

Great post.

With Council in the middle of developing its Housing Strategy it is timely that we the community ask for a session for Council to reveal how it is mapping the social housing demographic and comparing it to the rest of Melbourne.

The methodology and scoping material used will be crucial to determining the final Housing Strategy for the Sunshine and wider Brimbank area.

If the council wont discuss its approach then the community needs to supply the datasets mentioned above to access some local geospatial analysts so they can produce the maps that show the concentrations of social housing as we define it.

We must break the cycle of disadvantage that an ALP government is forcing on us yet again.

Forget about A Fairer Victoria and Social Inclusion policy - its all rhetoric when you look at what is now happening in Sunshine as a case study.

Does anyone know what the Brumby Government's Social Development Committee is doing these days?

Surely it is not supporting this current social housing policy intervention which is recreating the enclaves of disadvantage that previous Committee's decided to pull down?

Maybe Meredith Sussex with her Cabinet Office experience can provide guidance to the community on this extraordinary social issue that is unfolding in front of our eyes.

Mate, that's what the positions & council get paid to do.. you can't expect the working citizen to do their jobs for them!!

so, i don't know much about politics but it seems the same minister for local council is also the minister for housing.

now that makes me think.. is it coincident that brimbank was sacked and now the RSL+single mums/prisoners development appears?

http://www.premier.vic.gov.au/newsroom/media-releases/minister-for-housing.html

so where is the opposition??
Isn't that there job to oppose this guy?

7500 new affordable homes is a lot!!
and i bet most will be in our lovely beautifull brimbank

Minister Richard Wynne
is also Minister Aboriginal Affairs.

so i think we might be seeing some more aborigines??

Richard Wynne MP wrote:
Minister Richard Wynne
is also Minister Aboriginal Affairs.

so i think we might be seeing some more aborigines??

Good thing too.

Might help civilise some of the Labor Party goons around here.

Hooray wrote:
Richard Wynne MP wrote:
Minister Richard Wynne
is also Minister Aboriginal Affairs.

so i think we might be seeing some more aborigines??

Good thing too.

Might help civilise some of the Labor Party goons around here.

the aboriginal community could teach the ALP goons a heap of lessons about how to balance the social and environmental decison making.

the more aboriginal people we have in our community the better