Community services
Conference proceedings
City social and housing: SOAC 2021 conference track and abstracts
This track provides papers that address housing affordability; urban sprawl and associated housing and social infrastructure needs across cities and regions; homelessness, housing system reform, and the futures of homeownership; social and cultural diversity and its implications for housing and social/care infrastructures; and transformative models of housing innovation.
Conference proceedings
City governance and structure: SOAC 2021 conference track and abstracts
Dominant modes of decision-making regarding city form and function are not easily disrupted. Assumptions about the cultures of city life, the motives of powerful actors in shaping cities and city futures are embedded in socio-political discourses and may seem largely immutable. However, cities do change. Papers in this conference track discuss how our expectations of...
Conference paper
Climate justice in practice: addressing social inequity and climate resilience through place-based capacity building with community service organisations and local governments
This paper outlines a place-based approach to enabling climate adaptation and resilience across community service organisations (CSOs) and local governments in Melbourne particularly in areas experiencing socio-ecological disadvantage.
Report
Counting the costs: sustainable funding for the ACT community services sector
This report informs development of more sustainable models of resourcing for the community services sector in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).
Report
Meeting demand in the shadow of the Delta outbreak: community sector experiences
This report provides evidence from the Australian Community Sector Survey (ACSS) 2021, conducted in September 2021. It is part of a series of studies that seek to give voice to the collective issues and priorities affecting the community sector, and to reflect the rich diversity of experiences and perspectives within community organisations.