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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.
Landcom is a New South Wales Government–owned statutory corporation that is responsible for the delivery of new housing to meet the needs of people in the Australian state of NSW. [ 4 ] As a State Owned Corporation (SOC), Landcom operates on a commercial basis with the power to undertake and participate in residential, commercial and ...
A housing board was created in 1912, [5] under the supervision of the Treasurer. [6] A separate ministry was created in 1919 and its initial purpose was to regulate standards for housing construction and to provide housing for the poor. [7] It was abolished with the first Dooley ministry in 1921 and was revived in the first and second Fuller ...
It was formed as a cluster agency from the former Department of Housing, Department of Community Services, and the Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care. The functions of the department, along with broader responsibilities, were transferred to the newly formed Department of Communities and Justice with effect from 1 July 2019.
According to the 2006 census, Australia's public housing stock consisted of some 304,000 dwellings out of a total housing stock of more than 7.1 million dwellings, or 4.2% of all housing stock [3] (compared with 20% in Denmark, 46% "low rent housing" in France and 50% public housing in the UK at peak).
Louisa Lawson House (LLH) was a mental health centre for women in Leichhardt, New South Wales that operated from 1982 to 1994. Named after Australian feminist Louisa Lawson, it operated as an alternative to mainstream psychiatry, featuring yoga, meditation, conflict resolution training, and anxiety management training. [1]
The buildings were transferred to the NSW Housing Commission (later the NSW Department of Housing and subsequently the NSW Land and Housing Corporation) between 1983 and 1986. From 2008, a number of the properties were offered for long lease to the private sector, and Nos. 31 and 33 were leased and subsequently adapted as single family residences.
Bidwill was dominated by public housing development between the 1960s and 1970s. In 1973, the NSW Housing Commission clashed with Blacktown Council over the naming of streets. The commission sought names associated with John Bidwill, while the council preferred local names.