Housing Justice took the lead in organising an event for Homelessness week in the Hargreaves Mall, Bendigo on the 8th of August 2019, creating an event called “A Car is Not a Home.” This recognises that while a car is home for many people in our community, it shouldn’t be. We placed a car in […]
Just letting everyone know, our office will be closed tomorrow, 7th August from 10:30am – 3pm for internal staff training. Sorry for the inconvenience
From Monday 4 September 2017 Loddon Campaspe Community Legal Centre and Housing Justice will be based at 171 Hargreaves St, Bendigo. We will be closed for relocation from Wednesday 30 August to Friday 1 September inclusive. Our phone and fax numbers will remain unchanged. We apologise for any inconvenience but trust our clients will benefit from […]
In our work we often encounter a disconnect between tenants’ ability to sustain a tenancy and real estate agents’ understanding of tenants’ needs. The problems that can arise are only compounded by tenants’ limited access to social housing. And tenants with mental health issues often need encouragement and support to consider the private rental market […]
ARC Justice’s 2014 Report to Community is an opportunity for our organisation to speak about our achievements and to foreshadow the challenges faced by our three programs: Loddon Campaspe Community Legal Centre, Goulburn Valley Community Legal Centre and Housing Justice. It is also an opportunity for us to engage with our community in a broader discussion […]
Tenant Advocacy and Support is a program of the Advocacy and Rights Centre (ARC). ARC invites you to its… 2013 Report to Community Eviction in times of crisis Giving tenants a voice Listening to women’s experience of the law in family violence ARC’s 2013 Report to Community is an opportunity for the organisation to speak […]
SHASP services like ours are so stretched that often we don’t stop to think about promoting ourselves and our work and the needs of the clients we assist. In 2011/12 Tenant Advocacy and Support assisted 721 SHASP clients. Dan was one of those clients. We don’t have the money to produce a schmecko video (if […]
Tenant Advocacy Support is one of several services across Victoria that assists social and public housing tenants. In our case, we service the Loddon Campaspe region. Our service, like the others, falls under the State Government’s Social Housing Advocacy & Support Program (SHASP). Without services like ours, many public and social housing tenants are at risk of […]
On the 13th of April, the Minister for Housing, Wendy Lovell, announced the funding of a $1.5 million project to assist people in private rental in the Loddon Campaspe region. The project is one of eight government funded pilot projects aimed at preventing homelessness through early identification and intervention. The model is a partnership between […]
