Show Notes
NSW Land and Housing Corporation's Peter Brackenreg, Executive Director, Delivery (South), shares his experience and intel on delivering more social housing in NSW. Listen as Peter: - busts myths around LAHCs self-approval powers for our build and delivery model (we're very thorough) - suggests how to solve the housing crisis gripping our state (it's complicated) - shares the great work LAHC is doing in regional centres through innovative partnering with local councils and out of the box thinking (in Albury, Wagga Wagga, Goulburn, Newcastle, Coffs Harbour) - shares what the best part of working for people in need, delivering more homes, means to him (it means a lot) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Jeremy Bath, CEO, City of Newcastle, shares insights into the historic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the NSW Land and Housing Corporation and City of Newcastle council, and why all levels of government need to work together to deliver more urgently needed housing. Listen as Jeremy explains: Newcastle’s "perfect storm" – the city is now significantly challenged in terms of housing affordability, with median house and apartment prices, and the median rental price, all increasing over the last 12 months, while the supply of rental accommodation has reduced how LAHC and CN are innovating and partnering to increase the delivery of more social housing and boost jobs - both critical priorities of government the features and benefits of the partnership for social housing supply, so people in need can access the right housing, in the right areas, at the right time understand Jeremy’s goals for Newcastle and what success looks like partnering with LAHC See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Listen to our pilot episode with Suzie Hatherly interviewing Mark Byrne, Head of Portfolio Management (Assets) LAHC, who shares a high level overview on the challenges and innovation in the management of maintenance across our enormous portfolio of housing - the largest in Australia. Listen as Mark shares: Detail on the incredible variety and types of housing maintained and the day to day needs of our 300,000 tenants The machinery behind the management of our annual maintenance budget of $400m as we service 640,000 requests per year (equates to only $3,000 per asset, per year) Hear Mark's personal reflections upon meeting a long term social housing tenant, and find out what she turned down. And possums, find out as Mark explains why we're also housing wildlife in Erskineville. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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