The Victorian government's Neighbourhood Renewal initiative addresses place based disadvantage by fostering community engagement and development, through partnerships and cooperation between government, local service providers, business and community. The Collingwood and Fitzroy public housing estates are two Neighbourhood Renewal sites, and this paper reviews the positive effects of these Neighbourhood Renewal projects on community building...

This paper explores tensions in the idea of citizenship from a theoretical stance and from a perspective anchored in the local experience of neighbourhood houses, and reminds us that being a citizen engaged in governance of a place is more difficult than the much more common notions of citizen as political slogan or legal identity.

According to this paper it is the relationship between multiculturalism as a policy issue and social harmony among different cultural groups, specifically that of avoiding spatial (and implicitly social) segregation, hence pluralism, that most concerns social scientists and commentators.

This project will pursue a set of overlapping research strands that together will provide state housing agencies with the evidence base to develop effective forms of intervention to address anti-social behaviour. The review undertaken for this Positioning Paper shows that housing management responses in the Australian context are primarily focused on resolving tenant disputes, with...

The key factors in promoting resident participation in renewal are community development approaches that start with local people, identify local issues and give residents the confidence and skills to influence their communities writes Bill Randolph.