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South West Sydney Homelessness Sector Facilitation Project



Enquiries For all enquiries about WSCF South West Sydney Homelessness Sector Facilitation Project please contact: Eva Gerencer Homlessness Project Manager Phone: 02 9687 6754 Fax: 02 9687 8665 Email:evag@wscf.org.au Thomas Nance Homlessness Project Worker Phone: 02 9633 1718 Fax: 02 9687 8665 Email:tomn@wscf.org.au Tracey Gray Homlessness Resource Worker Phone: 0417 918 943 Fax: 02 9687 8665 Email:traceyg@wscf.org.au

The South West Sydney Homelessness Sector Facilitation Project works towards integrating Metro South West Support Accomodation Assistance Program (SAAP) services with non SAAP services to collaboratively plan and deliver services to the population of South West Sydney. The project also supports Metro South West services in setting directions in addressing and reducing homelessness in accordance with the National Homelessness Action Plan.

Affordable Housing Need and Policy Responses for Western Sydney

The Affordable Housing Need and Policy Response for Western Forum (click here for program), which was held at the Jubilee Hall in Parramatta on 16th November, 2011, was attended by more than 70 people. Presenters covered a broad range of topics including:

Affordable Housing Policy and Planning (300kb)
Professor Peter Phibbs (UWS)

The Real Estate Engagement Project (98kb)
Thomas Nance (WSCF) 

Housing and the Structure of Systems (67kb)
Peter Butler

After the presentations, the audience divided into small group workshops to identify the issues preventing access to affordable housing in Western Sydney and how they felt the Western Sydney Housing Coalition should respond to them. The feedback can be viewed here.

Learn to Listen Forum - Western Sydney Housing Coalition

The Learn to Listen Forum, held at WSCF on 5th April, 2011, attracted more than 40 attendees. Presenters covered a broad range of topics including:

Finding the questions your community wants answered: working with community to get the answers (8.4mb) 
Associate Professor Michael Darcy and Gabrielle Gwyther (UWS)

Approaches to researching homelessness in outer Metro-Sydney (120kb)
Michael Laing (Hawkesbury Council)

The Parramatta Homelessness Count: community involvement and impact (169kb)
Victoria Edghill (Parramatta Homelessness Taskforce)

New community-based research agendas for a regional taskforce (10.2mb)
Methods under development by the recently formed Auburn Housing Taskforce will be presented and discussed. Dr Niv Srivastava (Auburn Housing Taskforce)

Basic needs versus complex policy: housing advocacy challenges for Fairfield (5mb)
How can the community demonstrate the costs of housing insecurity and the benefits for homeless obtaining secure accommodation? Simon Emsley (Fairfield Housing Taskforce)

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