Call Number

HMSS 0303

ACT Shelter Records

Date Range

1988-2003

Quantity

0.97m (5 manuscript boxes)

Access Conditions

open

Copying conditions

with attribution

Related Collections

ACT Council of Social Services Housing Officer

Correspondence with ACT Government

ACT Shelter. Executive Committee Meetings

Includes agendas, minutes, financial reports, discussion papers

ACT Shelter. Submissions to ACT Budget

ACT Shelter. Reports to National Shelter Meetings

ACT Shelter. Forums

Chronological files including agendas and minutes of Forum meetings; discussion papers covering budget submissions, policy, funding, etc; presentations and speeches; symposiums held by ACT Shelter; briefing notes; correspondence; financial statements

ACT Shelter. Report on Emergency Accomodation

Fiona McIlroy. Preliminary findings on the need for emergency accommodation in the ACT

National Shelter Consultation

This is a research project undertaken by National Shelter to examine the relationship between housing and the labour market and the implications of this for housing policy. The research consists of in-depth consultations with State and Territory branches of Shelter.
Includes correspondence, discussion papers and final report

ACT Housing. Tenant Participation Program

Papers relating to drafting the program, consultation with ACTCOSS and local tenants’ associations

ACT Housing. Appeals Mechanism

Background Papers

ACT Housing. Progressive Purchase Scheme

Includes:

• discussion paper: ACT Housing Trust. Expanding Home Ownership Opportunities: Progressive Purchase Scheme. October 1990
• minutes, correspondence and related papers
• ACTCOSS proposal

ACT Housing. Single Share Accomodation Scheme (SSAS)

The SSAS was designed to provide long-term accommodation to single people with or without dependants, e.g. in houses, flats or aged persons units with two or more bedrooms. Stage 1 provided supported accommodation, Stage 2 provided housing for independent people.
Includes:

• draft and final versions of the guidelines and agreements
• submissions from ACTCOSS and ACT Youth Accommodation Group
• correspondence with ACT Housing Trust

ACT Housing Advisory Committee (HAC)

Agendas, minutes and background on establishing the Housing Advisory Committee

ACT Housing Advisory Committee (HAC) review

Community discussion papers, notes, contact list, draft report

ACT Government Budgets

Includes submissions from ACT Shelter and related organisations, ACT Housing financial statements, correspondence, budget speeches, budget analyses, fact sheets

1997-1999

Local Government and Community Housing Program (LGCHP)

The scheme was to involve local government and community groups in providing and managing long term housing for people on low incomes, and to encourage the development of new housing models. Includes:

• program guidelines and promotional material
• program outlines for 1989/90, 1990/91-1991/92
• national priorities
• research brief, issues papers
• correspondence

Office of Rental Bonds

Documents the consultation process and public debate around the establishment of the Office, including correspondence, draft and final versions of the Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Act 1991, explanatory memorandum, presentation speech by Bernard Collaery, media releases, brochures, newscuttings

ACT Legislative Assembly Select Committee on Public Housing

In July 1999 a Select Committee was appointed to report on the role of public housing. This file includes Government and Housing Advisory Committee responses to the report, draft legislation, briefing notes, submissions and correspondence

Sale of Public Housing

The ACT Government in 1991 proposed changes to the management of ACT public housing, including sale. These files include:

• correspondence between ACT Shelter and the ACT Government
• ministerial statement by Bernard Collaery, Minister for Housing and Community Services
• report by Dr G. Bethune on the ACT Housing Consultancy
• media releases and information sheets
• papers on the management of public housing from Victorian government and community organisations
• relevant articles for research purposes

ACT Housing Trust. Housing Policy Review

Housing Options for Older People; Discussion paper

Community Organisation Rental Housing Assistance Program (CORHAP) review

The review was to recommend arrangements for the future structure and management of leasing low cost properties. A policy framework was released in 2003 and opened up for consultation by community groups

Review of the 1987 ACT Housing Assistance Program

The Review was announced in October 2000. Includes:

• Lyla Rogan and Craig Johnston. Implementation of service purchasing arrangements in the Australian Capital Territory. February 1997
• ACTCOSS submission to the Select Committee on Public Housing, September 1999
• indicative brief, correspondence

Ainslie Village Review

Ainslie Village began as a hostel for construction workers and migrants in the late 1940s before becoming a privately run hostel 1976-1980. It was then managed by Ainslie Village Management until April 1990 when Ainslie Village Limited took over and instituted a major refurbishment program. In 1992 a review was instituted into the management of the Village.

Includes background papers, terms of reference, minutes of stakeholder meetings, correspondence, submissions, survey and newscuttings, and the draft report of the inquiry

ACT Government Housing Review 1995

• Agenda and minutes of ACTCOSS Housing Task Force meeting 17 July 1995
• ACTCOSS Housing Policy, February 1990
• Implementation of the Housing Review, no date

Residential Tenancy LAw

Submissions to the Community Law Reform Committee of the ACT by ACTCOSS and the Co-operative Housing Resource Centre

Local Area Planning Advisory Committee (LAPAC)

Includes correspondence, newsletters, brochures, guidelines, background material, reports and minutes of meetings with Planning and Land Management (PALM)

Planning and Land Management (PALM)

Agendas and minutes of Land Forums

Responses to the 1989 Burdekin Report:

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. Our homeless children: report of the National Inquiry into Homeless ChildrenIncludes:

• the Interim Territory Planning Authority Social Issues Paper no. 1, July 1989
• responses to the Burdekin report by the ACT Government and the National Youth Coalition for Housing (NYCH)
• information paper and guidelines on Burdekin initiatives and funding

Youth Housing Issues

Correspondence, submissions, radio interview briefings, media releases and newscuttings, by and with Youth Housing Outreach, YMCA, Ministerial Youth Advisory Structures (Youth Minister’s Advisory Council and Officers’ Advisory Group on Youth Affairs), Toora Single Wimmin’s Shelter, Community Law Reform Committee

YMCA Housing

YMCA Youth Support Unit minutes

Community Housing

Includes papers and discussions on various community housing initiatives, including:

• ACT Community Housing Expansion Task Force, 1997-2000 – briefing notes for independent MLAs
• Establishment of a Community Housing Providers National Peak Organisation. August 1995
• Community Housing Canberra Forum, 28-29 February 1996 – papers
• Community Organisation Rental Housing Assistance Program (CORHAP) guidelines, September 1990
• Community Housing in 1996
• Community Housing program Interim Guidelines, 1993, papers for community consultation

Centrelink (ACT/Queanbeyan) Multicultural Advisory Group

Agendas, meeting papers and minutes

Information session for representatives from ethnic communities and service providers – brochures, booklets and information sheets

Utilities Reform

In October 1998 the ACT Government announced its intention to develop an enhanced regulatory regime to apply to the provision of electricity, water and sewerage; gas was included later. These papers relate to the investigations and community consultations during the Committee stages of the Utilities Bill 2000 and the Utilities (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2000. The utilities reform package also included a Utilities Services Licence, Consumer Protection Code, Benchmark Customer Contract, Drinking Water Quality Code, and draft codes of practice

Future Canberra

Papers and publications relating to conferences on planning the future Canberra

Future Canberra Conference 10 May 2001

• Conference brochures, correspondence, list of participants, draft statement by selected organisations
• Reprint of Proceedings of the 1901 Congress of Engineers, Architects, Surveyors, and Others Interested in the Building of the Federal Capital of Australia
• Conference Newsletter issues 4 and 6, April and August 2001

Our Canberra Our Future. Canberra Plan – Issues and Ideas Forum 4 September 2002

• Program and notes
• Media release / conference communique

Canberra Community Foundation

In February 2001 the ACT Government launched the Canberra Community Foundation to support ACT community activities. ACT Shelter investigated applying to the Foundation for funding for low cost housing projects

Includes working papers, correspondence and Applicant’s Kits

Federal/State Government Review of Housing 

During 1991 the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement (CSHA) was renegotiated. There were two main forces driving this: the Hawke ‘new federalism’ commitment and the work of the National Housing Strategy.

Includes:

• Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP). National Client Census – Home for a Night. 1990
• Report of the functional review of the Supported Accommodation Assistance Program. August 1991
• Report on functional review of housing
• proposals for the Special Premiers’ Conference in Perth, 1991
• communiqué from the Premiers and Chief Ministers Meeting 1991
• Martin Attridge. ‘Breaking the silence of new federalism’
• G. P. Appleyard. ‘Redressing vertical fiscal imbalance: the States’ plan’. Presented at New Federalism – the States’ Perspective, Canberra 1992
• photocopied extracts from Report on Government Service Provision, 1997

Housing Reform - Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Commonwealth State Housing Aggreement

Reports, discussion papers, correspondence, media releases, forum discussion notes, submissions, publicity and explanatory material

National Shelter and Australian Council of Social Services for the Department of Housing and Regional Development. Report on National Consultations on the Reform Directions of the Commonwealth State Housing Agreement. Volumes 1 and 2. July 1995

Commonwealth State Housing Agreement as entered into between the Commonwealth of Australia and the Australian Capital Territory, operative from 1 July 1996The Housing Reform Agenda: Change and Challenges Conference, 15 November 1996 at Wesley Conference Centre, Sydney. Papers presented

The Housing Reform Agenda: Change and Challenges Conference, 15 November 1996 at Wesley Conference Centre, Sydney. Papers presented

Commonwealth State Housing Agreement Renegotiation

Includes drafts of bilateral agreements between the Commonwealth and Queensland, NSW, Victoria and Western Australia, discussion papers and drafts of the agreement with the ACT, statistical comparisons

Council of Australian Governments (coag)

Communiques and correspondence re housing reform

Commonwealth State Housing Agreement (CSHA) Reforms

Includes briefing papers, consultancy arrangements, correspondence, minutes, draft Report on National Consultations 1996