Social and Affordable Housing Taskforce
In 2024-2025, Just Home convened the Social and Affordable Housing Taskforce every six weeks. Regular attendees at the Taskforce included representative from: AMR Shire Council and planning staff; Department of Communities; Arup; WA Alliance to End Homelessness; MyHome; Co-operation Housing; Accordwest; and Community Housing Ltd.
The Taskforce had some significant wins, with news of the completion of four new public housing units near Margaret River town centre, and the beginning of construction of fifteen out of twenty-five planned social housing dwellings in the Kyloring Housing Cooperative in Witchcliffe.
Sadly, the planned social housing project on Clarke Road did not pass planning approval due to environmental concerns; the planned housing was too close to pollution exposure from the local vineyard and concrete plant.
We remain hopeful that the Taskforce’s advocacy will see the old Water Corp site on Wilmott Avenue be reallocated as a social housing project, we are awaiting the news that the site has successfully transferred into the hands of the Department of Communities.
The Taskforce had some significant wins, with news of the completion of four new public housing units near Margaret River town centre, and the beginning of construction of fifteen out of twenty-five planned social housing dwellings in the Kyloring Housing Cooperative in Witchcliffe.
Sadly, the planned social housing project on Clarke Road did not pass planning approval due to environmental concerns; the planned housing was too close to pollution exposure from the local vineyard and concrete plant.
We remain hopeful that the Taskforce’s advocacy will see the old Water Corp site on Wilmott Avenue be reallocated as a social housing project, we are awaiting the news that the site has successfully transferred into the hands of the Department of Communities.
Housing Justice Collective
An exciting development this year has been the reestablishment of the Just Home Action Collective as the Housing Justice Collective.
Long-time Just Home volunteers have joined forces with activists from Action and Resilience Collective (ARC) Wooditchup to bring the autonomous group together every other week to initiate projects for local volunteers and activists to support Just Home’s work.
Long-time Just Home volunteers have joined forces with activists from Action and Resilience Collective (ARC) Wooditchup to bring the autonomous group together every other week to initiate projects for local volunteers and activists to support Just Home’s work.
