North Coast Community Housing

NCCH celebrates International Women’s Day 2020

12.03.2020 in Affordable Housing, Blog, Celebrations, Community, Everybody's Home campaign, Homelessness, Housing & homelessness, International Women's Day, Rental stress, Social housing

Message from our Chair in recognition of International Women’s Day 2020 NCCH staff recently celebrated International Women’s Day 2020. Chair Robyn Hordern has drawn on the theme for this year’s IWD “An equal world is an enabled world” and shared the following thoughts. “I am very…

Byron Shire Council looks at housing above car parks to ease the housing affordability crisis

05.03.2020 in Affordable Housing, Blog, Community, Everybody's Home campaign, Homelessness, Housing & homelessness, Rental stress

CEO John McKenna was interviewed on last night’s edition of PRIME7 News North Coast regarding Byron Shire Council‘s suggestion of affordable & low cost housing above car parks in the Shire to ease the housing affordability crisis. Click here for the link to the news item on PRIME7News…

CEO attends “Planning for Lismore’s Future” community engagement workshop

12.02.2020 in Affordable Housing, Blog, Community, Future planning, Homelessness, Housing & homelessness, Rental stress, Social housing

NCCH’s CEO John McKenna attended one of Lismore City Council’s (LCC) community workshops on Monday 10 February in Nimbin. The workshops are part of LCC’s Planning for Lismore’s Future engagement exercise and are being held around the region throughout February to get feedback for the…

Homelessness Connect Days

02.10.2019 in Affordable Housing, Anti-Poverty, Blog, Community, Everybody's Home campaign, Homelessness, Housing & homelessness, Rental stress, Social housing

Come along to a day of compassion and support at this year’s Homeless Connect Days being held on: Thursday 3rd October: 9am-11am Ballina (Kentwell Community Centre) Thursday 10th October: 10am-2pm Lismore (The Winsome) Enjoy a free meal 🍲, haircut ✂️, entertainment 🎤 and access support services

CEO joins webcast panel discussion on Housing, Communities & Neighbourhoods

20.09.2019 in Affordable Housing, Blog, Community, Everybody's Home campaign, Homelessness, Rental stress

John McKenna, NCCH CEO and Chair of the Community Housing Industry Association NSW, will be taking part in a webcast panel discussion on Monday 23 September 2019 from 2:30pm – 4:00pm on the topic of Housing, Communities & Neighbourhoods. We all need a home….

Homelessness Week 2019: 4-10 August

01.08.2019 in Affordable Housing, Anti-Poverty, Blog, Community, Everybody's Home campaign, Homelessness, Housing & homelessness, Rental stress, Social housing

We are all very much aware of the homeless issue in our Northern Rivers Region and for this year’s Homelessness Week, the theme is Housing ends homelessness. Key messages are: Right now, more than 116,000 Australians are homeless On any given night in Australia, 1 in…

Housing & homelessness services call for urgent action to fix a rental crisis on the North Coast

27.05.2019 in Affordable Housing, Blog, Community, Everybody's Home campaign, Homelessness, Housing & homelessness, Rental stress, Social housing

CEO John McKenna and Social Futures CEO Tony Davies were recently interviewed by NBN News regarding how dire the housing crisis is within the Page and Richmond electorates. “What we’d like to see at a national and state level is a clear housing strategy that lays…

Anglicare Australia releases annual Rental Affordability Snapshot

13.05.2019 in Affordable Housing, Blog, Everybody's Home campaign, Rental stress, Social housing

Every year, Anglicare Australia tests if it is possible for people on low incomes to rent a home in the private market. They do this by taking a snapshot of the thousands of properties listed for rent on realestate.com.au and they test whether each property is affordable and…

CEO joins panel for Thursday Night Live! forum in Lismore

10.05.2019 in Affordable Housing, Blog, Community, Everybody's Home campaign, Rental stress

NCCH CEO, John McKenna, participated as a panellist at last night’s Thursday Night Live forum. He is pictured (2nd from left) with fellow panellists from Ian O’Reilly (Social Futures) and researcher Dr Sandy Darab (Southern Cross University) and event facilitator, Adele Wessell. The Northern Rivers faces significant…