SPCHG Office Closure
We will be closed as at Xmas Eve, reopening on Monday 4 January. Here’s to a happier and healthier year for all in 2021.
We will be closed as at Xmas Eve, reopening on Monday 4 January. Here’s to a happier and healthier year for all in 2021.
Through the State’s Rooming House Conversion Program, our Layfield Street building has been undergoing renovations for just over two years now, converting the 22 rooming house rooms and 2 one-bedroom apartments into 25 self-contained studio apartments and a communal kitchen with space for meetings and community events. Whilst there have
Our book ‘More Than Just Housing’ was awarded the prize for best Local History – Small Publication Award by the Royal Historical Society. Written by our CEO, Janet Goodwin and two of the organisation’s founders, Beris Campbell and Heather McKee, the book tells the remarkable stories of our tenants, staff
We’re back to recycling in the City of Port Phillip. That’s awesome news on the back of the recent #ClimateStrike for South Port Community Housing Group tenants and others in our community…but no soft plastic bags, polystyrene, broken mirrors or food scraps in your recycles as this will compromise the
Words can’t describe how excited we are to have commenced major renovations on our Layfield Street property, converting it from a rooming house to a fully contained bedsit arrangement. Empirical evidence suggests that a self contained housing model leads to a longer term housing solution. Secure housing is a fundamental
We’re getting in early for ‘National Action Day’ 11 May! Advocating that the Newstart and Youth Allowance rate be increased is close to our heart and features loud on the South Port Community Housing Group strategic plan. Now’s your time to act and find out if your local candidate is
It’s going to be fantastic fun and totally FREE. Whoever you are and wherever you are…we hope to see you there. Check out the South Port Community Housing Group Inc. Facebook page for all the updates!
At SPCHG we’re often preoccupied with what’s happening in our local Southern Region. We recommend that you read this alarming report prepared by the Northern and Western Homelessness Network outlining the fact that crisis accommodation is in a state of crisis itself. Support services are calling for acceptable crisis accommodation
Today we’re commemorating the 11th anniversary of the Apology to Stolen Generations. These policies caused tremendous pain and trauma within our Aboriginal communities. Our thoughts are with all those affected.
CHIA Vic, in collaboration with BOOMPower, recently assisted seven community housing organisations
We support the ‘yes’ vote on 14 October 2023. SPCHG operates from inner South Melbourne and as an organisation, we acknowledge the peoples of the Kulin nation, the Traditional Owners of this land. We pay our respects to their Elders, past and present. We acknowledge that we operate on unceded land which always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land. As a community housing and youth homelessness support service assisting vulnerable people in our community, we believe that First Nations peoples are unacceptably over-represented among those who experience homelessness. Asserting the Voice to Parliament will enable self-determination of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, providing opportunities to inform policy and legal decisions that directly impact their communities.
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