Objectives
The program aims to ensure residents have a range of housing choices that are affordable, secure and appropriate to household needs and contribute to the physical character of all renewal areas, by:
- improving the visual appearance and physical environment of the suburb and creating an aesthetically pleasant and desirable residential environment;
- applying the principles of Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) in improvement processes;
- reducing social housing in the area by offering opportunities for home ownership at affordable prices to create a more balanced community profile;
- enhancing the physical quality of housing by undertaking appropriate improvement works;
- providing increased choices in housing by realigning current housing properties to meet changing community needs; and
- creating employment opportunities for local unemployed people through involvement on the capital works program.
Last updated 02 February 2009
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