Housing NSW

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Housing NSW
Agency overview
Formed
  • 11 June 2008 [1]
    (as Housing NSW)
  • 20 February 1942 [2]
    (as the Housing Commission of New South Wales)
  • April 1912 [3]
    (as NSW Housing Board)
Preceding agencies
  • New South Wales Department of Housing (1986–2008)
  • Housing Commission of New South Wales (1942–1985)
  • New South Wales Housing Board (1912–1942)
Type Government agency
Jurisdiction New South Wales
Headquarters Sydney
Minister responsible
Parent department New South Wales Department of Communities and Justice
Key document

Housing NSW, formerly the Housing Commission of New South Wales and before that the New South Wales Housing Board, was an agency of the Department of Communities and Justice that was responsible for the provision and management of public housing services with the aim to prevent homelessness in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

Contents

The agency was established pursuant to the Housing Act 2001 (NSW).

Purpose and function

Housing NSW provides a range of services including public and community housing, housing for people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds, support services for people with special needs linked to government and non-government agencies, private rental assistance and subsidies, advice and assistance for home-buyers, the development of affordable housing, community regeneration, and development and regulation of social housing policies. [4]

Initially the role of the Housing Commission was to investigate housing affordability and standards, co-ordinate with associated agencies, publish its findings and general information about housing, take steps to improve housing standards and recommend further legislation. [5]

The commission was responsible for the provision of post-war housing in the 1940s and 1950s, often using cheap fibro materials due to shortages of other materials such as bricks. It was also responsible for slum clearance in the 1960s and the replacement of terraced housing in the Waterloo area with high rise public housing towers. In the 1970s, the now-discredited American Radburn style of public housing was used, especially in the south western suburbs of Sydney. Phyllis Le Cappelaine Burke served on the commission for twenty years, from 1945 to 1965, and advocated for policies to improve the lives of women in public housing. [6]

Prior to the establishment of the Housing Commission, a Housing Board was established in April 1912 under the authority of the NSW Colonial Secretary. [3]

High Rise Developments (6 stories and higher)

Sites

Camperdown

  • Johanna O'Dea Court Pyrmont Bridge Rd (Corner of Lyons Rd), 1 building, next to Homeless accommodation and walk-up flats complex (Y-Shaped)
  • Namatjira Pl, 3 buildings, walk-up flats complex (I-Shaped)
  • Rosebery Apartments Maloney Street, (Corner of Leon Lachal Reserve), 2 unit blocks, linked by stairs/elevator block (I-Shaped)
  • Eastlakes Apartments Florence Avenue, (Corner of Evans Avenue), 2 unit blocks, walk-up flats complex (I-Shaped)
  • Manning Rd, (Corner of Victoria Rd), 2 buildings (I-Shaped)\
  • Greenway, (Greenway Dr), 6 conjoined buildings adjacent to smaller complex (2 L-Shaped, 2 rectangle-shaped, 2 Y-shaped, 1 T-shaped)
  • Lilyfield Rd, (Corner of Grove St), 1 building adjacent to 2 housing estates and duplex cottages (B-Shaped)
  • Station St, (Corner of Reiby Pl) 1 rectangular block
  • Forbes St, (Corner of Elvy Pl) 1 building in Golden Grove Housing Complex (P-Shaped)
  • Elanora, (Hardy St) 1 building (U-Shaped)
  • Mckell, Lawson, Gilmore, Kendall Morehead St, 3 buildings adjacent to housing estate (3 double conjoined rectangular towers, 1 X-Shaped)
  • Purcell, (1 I-shaped Block)
  • Lincoln, Jefferson adjacent to large housing estate (2 triple conjoined square-shaped towers)
  • John Northcott Place , 2 buildings, surrounded by walk-up complex (3 rectangular blocks conjoined with Y shaped tower, 1 I shaped surrounded by walk-ups)
  • Sturt St (Corner of Wade St), adjacent to large housing estate (3 square-shaped towers)
  • Sirius building , 1 building adjacent to large housing estate, (/-shaped) (Sold to Private Developers) [7]
  • Cook, Matavai, Turanga, Solander, Marton and Banks, adjacent to large housing estate, 6 buildings (4 I-shaped, 2 rectangle-shaped)
  • Pitt St (Corner of Kellick St), 2 buildings (U-shaped)

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References

  1. "Public Sector Employment and Management (Housing NSW) Order 2008" (PDF). Government of New South Wales. 11 June 2008. Retrieved 2 January 2009.
  2. "Department of Housing". State Records Authority of New South Wales. Governememt of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 January 2008.
  3. 1 2 "NSW Housing Board Building (former)". New South Wales State Heritage Register . Department of Planning & Environment. H01564. Retrieved 14 October 2018. CC-BY icon.svg Text is licensed by State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) under CC-BY 4.0 licence.
  4. "Housing NSW". Annual Report 2010–11. Sydney: Department of Family and Community Services. 2011. pp. 110–131.
  5. "Housing Commission of New South Wales". State Records Authority of New South Wales. Government of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 January 2008.
  6. Allport, Carolyn, "Burke, Phyllis Le Cappelaine (1900–1969)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 4 July 2021
  7. "Sydney's iconic Sirius building sold to developers for $150 million - ABC News".