Developing a profile of your Tenants Advice and Advocacy Service’s
catchment area
Do you need to create a profile of your Tenants Advice and Advocacy Service’s
(TAAS) catchment area for planning purposes, submissions, funding applications
and so on?
Well, great stuff can be found at the Local Government Housing Kit. It’s on the
website of the Centre for Affordable Housing of Housing NSW.
The Local Government Housing Kit Database provides basic quantitative
information on housing and housing-related matters by local government area. It
allows the user to compare between local government areas, regions, statistical
divisions or subdivisions.
If you have any problems accessing the 2011 data, you may need to
download Google Chrome or a recent version of Internet Explorer.
Please note, if you are asked to provide a password please click Cancel. (You
may have to click ‘Cancel’ twice.) No username or password is required to
access data.
If you have any problems accessing the 2011 data, you may need to
download Google Chrome or a recent version of Internet Explorer.
Start at the beginning and work your way through it. Go to:
http://www.housing.nsw.gov.au/Centre+For+Affordable+Housing/NSW+Local+G
overnment+Housing+Kit/NSW+Local+Government+Housing+Kit.htm
You can extract information on number of useful variables, including 'Dwelling
type', 'Bond lodgements', 'Public housing stock', 'Number of households in
housing stress' and 'Proportion of housing stock that is affordable', ‘Rental
affordability of CRA Recipients’, to name a few.
The data is provided by local government area. However, it is very easy to collate
this data for the whole of your TAAS’s catchment area. This is because TAAS’s
catchment areas are defined by local government areas.
First step …
Go to your TAAS Contact Directory and list all the local government areas in your
catchment area. Write these down on a piece of paper.
Second step …
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You will find the Local Government Housing Kit on the TAAP Intranet. Go to
'External Links' and click 'NSW Local Government Housing Kit'. Scroll down left
hand side of page and click 'Local Government Housing Kit Database'.
Alternatively, just click the following link:
http://www.housing.nsw.gov.au/Centre+For+Affordable+Housing/NSW+Local+G
overnment+Housing+Kit/Local+Government+Housing+Kit+Database.htm
To commence this exercise, click 'The Local Government Housing Kit Database
(2011 census)'.
At 'Step 1: Selecting an LGA' of 'Welcome to the Housing Kit Database', show
your first local government area.
At 'Step 2: Select a Comparison Region’, you can add up to 10 other comparison
areas.
The Centre for Affordable Housing suggests that you select 'Sydney SD’ if
you are located in Sydney, and ‘NSW excluding Sydney SD’ if you are
located outside Sydney. This is in addition to ‘Total NSW'. You may
include up to a further 8 local government areas.
Please note that the instructions at 'Step 2' allow you to select more than one
comparison area (generally local government area) by holding down the control
key. If you are using an Apple computer this should read the 'Apple key'.
For example, for EATS this will be Step 1: ‘Randwick’ and Step 2: ‘Sydney
SD’, ‘Total NSW’, 'Waverley'.
For Mid Coast Tenants Advice Service, this will be Step 1: ‘Bellingen’ and
Step 2: ‘NSW excluding Sydney SD’, ‘Total NSW’, ‘Coffs Harbour’,
‘Greater Taree’, ‘Hastings’ (since 2005 known as ‘Port Macquarie Hastings’), ‘Kempsey’, ‘Nambucca’.
At 'Step 3: Select the appropriate table', you do just that (for example, 'S4 Public housing stock'). You then ask the kit to save the file in a sub-directory on
your computer. The file is saved as a spreadsheet (for example, an Excel file).
Third step …
You now can manipulate your own spreadsheet to do 'Totals' (using the 'Auto
sum' facility) and so on.
More about the Local Government Housing Kit …
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If you want to learn more about the Local Government Housing Kit, open the
TAAP Intranet, go to 'External Links' and click 'NSW Local Government Housing
Kit'.
Alternatively, just click the following
link:http://www.housing.nsw.gov.au/Centre+For+Affordable+Housing/NSW+Local
+Government+Housing+Kit/
Great stuff ah? ...
The Kit originally was developed by Epicdotgov, lead by Viv Milligan and
including Kate Fagan, Nicole Gurran, Peter Phibbs and Rebecca Richardson . It
is now maintained by Centre for Affordable Housing, Housing NSW.
For further information, contact:
Philippa Davis,
Senior Project Officer
Centre for Affordable Housing,
Community and Private Market Housing Directorate,
Housing NSW, Department of Family and Community Services
Phone: 02 8753 8526
Email: philippa.davis@facs.nsw.gov.au"philippa.davis@facs.nsw.gov.au
Please note that the Local Government Housing Kit is copyright and belongs to
Housing NSW. This should be acknowledged in any report generated by Tenants
Advice and Advocacy Services.
Updated Robert Mowbray
April 2014