With over 30 years in the homelessness sector in grassroots and executive roles, current CEO of the Brotherhood of St Laurence, Tony Nicholson, understands Melbourne’s homelessness picture. He has just finished a task for Minister for Housing, Martin Foley, writing a discussion paper on rough sleeping in Melbourne. His report
On a Melbourne winter’s day, in the week before it closed, we braved the cold and the crowds and did a group outing to the Van Gogh exhibition at the National Gallery in St Kilda Road. This was the most attended exhibition the gallery has ever had- even busier than
As published on The Age 17 May 2017. View link to article on The Age
Every year since 2015, we have put on an annual Community Street Party in Marshall Street, South Melbourne (behind South Melbourne Town Hall). The street party revolves around lots of food and good music, and aims to: be a social outing for our tenants connect our organisation to the wider
An innovative program for creating new housing options without building new housing, Homeshare programs have been popping up and expanding in many countries. Homeshare programs carefully create safe and compatible matches between people with spare rooms who could also benefit from some help and companionship, with people needing affordable accommodation.
Freddie MacGregor was pretty typical of the blokes who came to live in community rooming houses in the 1990s. He was a boiler maker, in and out of work, and separated from his wife. He just needed a room that was affordable and easy to look after. For a while
This story is told by Justin himself: My Journey so far! Things have certainly improved for me over the last few years and at the moment everything is pretty good and the future is looking very bright right now. Looking back and considering where I was, even 18 months ago
Interested in finding out more about social/community housing and homelessness or more about the local area? We’ll post links to interesting reads as we find them. Some recommended websites to start a reading journey: http://www.acoss.org.au/ http://www.chp.org.au/ https://www.bsl.org.au/ https://www.vinnies.org.au/page/Our_Impact/homelessness-in-Australia/ https://theconversation.com/au http://www.chfv.org.au/ https://www.tuv.org.au/act/
This story is told by South Port founding Committee member, Beris Campbell who, in 1983, was the head social worker at Port Melbourne Council. The Port Melbourne rooming house, at 211 Princes Street, was owned by local businessman Jim Fletcher. He was a tall, dignified man, probably in his 80s,
CHIA Vic, in collaboration with BOOMPower, recently assisted seven community housing organisations
South Port Community Housing Group would like to acknowledge that we operate here today on the land of the traditional owners of this land, the Yalukit Willam clan of the Boon Wurrung. We pay our respect to their elders, past and present. We recognise and respect the significance of their cultural heritage and relationship with the land as we work from the historic meeting place of Emerald Hill. © South Port Community Housing Group Inc.
