My Home, Your Home, Our Homes Project
The My Home, Your Home, Our Homes (MYO Homes) Project grew out of a commitment of the Housing Older Women’s Movement to ensure that women have access to a home that is affordable, secure, amenable, and supportive us to age in our home, neighbourhood, and communities.
The MYO Homes Project also aims to give women a voice and agency in designing our homes.
The series of seminars, workshops, forums, and networking events is bringing together community members, sector professionals, and interests across public, private, and community housing and finance-related sectors. We have invited Zola Rose (CEO of Common Ground New Zealand), who brings international experience and expertise to facilitate these events across SEQ.
The Project is supported by funding from the state government’s Gambling Community Benefit Fund, SANDBAG Inc. City of Gold Coast, Brisbane City Council and HAAG and individual donors. You can donate to suppport the project here
Women catalysing affordable housing and neighbourhood models- Zola Rose Podcast
The fastest growing demographic who are vulnerable to housing insecurity and unaffordable housing is older women. Many of these women have been valuable contributing members of their communities and working professionally yet find themselves in housing precariousness later in life due to a range of systemic societal and economic factors.
The Housing Older Women Movement believes these women should have a say and be able to participate in creating the kind of housing that meets their needs and aspirations.
Why the My home, Your home, Our homes Project – Zola interviews HOW Movement participants. Aspirations re a home.
Zola Rose from Common Ground interviewed us about the My Home, Your Home, Our Homes project (MYOH) which is kicking off with a series of community engagement events from 10-20 September 2024.
What’s happening elsewhere in Australia regarding community-led housing?
Grab a cuppa and check out the links in this summary of housing initiatives at various stages of development of community-led housing initiatives across Australia and who is involved. You will be amazed at the innovation, determination and commitment of those involved. This summary has been prepared by a HOW Movement Core Group participant Tracy Adams. It is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all that is happening across the nation.
MYO Homes Engagement Series of Seminars, Workshops, Forum and Networking Events
Please download and use the flyer to register for your preferred event. You can also use the downloaded flyer to circulate to others interested across your networks. Promotion Flyers for the events: All Events flyer Gold Coast flyer Sunshine Coast flyer North Brisbane flyer South Brisbane flyer Sector Influencers Forum flyer
A guide to establishing a co-operative ‘community land trust’
The work done by Co-operation Housing is a great example where innovative models of co-operation can be fostered to meet contemporary social and economic challenges. Community Land Trusts are a popular model of perpetually affordable and community-focused housing in the UK, US and Canada but there has been a knowledge gap about whether and how a co-op structure and Community Land Trust could work in the Australian context. These model rules for two types of Community Land Trusts to be established as a co-operative,
