Social Landlord

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Social Landlord

In 2009 we funded the Centre for Housing Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Adelaide to complete a research project that explored the role of social landlords in meeting the housing needs of people with disability.

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Some of the key findings of this research included:

the role of the social landlord involves much more than just providing an affordable “roof” or a bed to sleep in
social landlords have a crucial role to play in promoting social inclusion and addressing barriers to accessible, life-enhancing housing
“good” social landlords are those that take a person-centred approach and enable tenants with disability to have peace and comfort, security of tenure, safety, and independence in their housing.

A key recommendation of the report was the creation of a code of practice for social landlords to formalise understanding of what constitutes good practice for social landlords through:

clearly communicating the roles and responsibilities of tenants and landlords
outlining the important role of housing and housing providers in facilitating social and economic connectedness
indicating the strategies and actions in place to facilitate tenant choice, participation and autonomy.

The work of this project continues to inform the social landlord practice of our sibling organisation, inhousing, today.

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Funded projects

Neighbourhood Circles

Neighbourhood Circles Project aims to support increased knowledge and understanding on the role of neighbourhoods as spaces of inclusion, belonging, safeguarding, and support. Neighbourhood Circles works with people with a disability or mental illness to strengthen their sense of safety, inclusion, and belonging to their local neighbourhood.

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Butterfly Hour expansion

Butterfly Hour is a community support group that welcomes both the brain injury and wider disability communities, and the non-disabled community to come together as one in a safe, supportive, and welcoming environment.

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Raising the Game

Empowering neuro-diverse young people and fostering collaborative industry ties Raising the Game is a project that offers a quality assurance (QA) service for game studios, while also providing training, jobs, and work experience opportunities for young people.

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Group of people with disabilities in a cooking class

Julia Farr Youth Mentoring

In 2009 the JFM Fund funded leadership development of mentors for Julia Farr Youth Mentoring, a peer-to-peer support program for young people with disability between the ages of 11 and 18 who were mentored by other young people between the ages of 18 and 30 years who also live with disability.

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Acknowledgement of Country

In the spirit of reconciliation we acknowledge the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognise their continuing connection to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and cultures today.

Social Landlord