Accessible Housing Forum 18 May 2009 Bill Lawler

2 What Can We Do? Join the Victorian Universal Housing Alliance Get your Council to lodge a submission to the Regulatory Impact Statement Continue to raise awareness at Council and Community levels Demonstration Projects Use Council Strategies and Plans

3 What Can We Do? Empower people with information Use the media Broaden the issue into the Aged, Safety and Health and Wellbeing and Environmental Sustainability sectors Encourage people to make formal complaints (DDA, EO or Building Commission)

4 What Happened at Latrobe City 2004 – Latrobe City Community Plan 2005 – DACV Accessible Place Accessible State 2006 – Establish a local ABEWG Hosted Flinders University Focus Groups 2007 – Held Accessible Housing Information Session

5 What Happened at Latrobe City 2007 – DAC input into Older Persons’ Strategy 2008 – Policy Position on Universal Housing included in MSS Involvement in Statewide BESWG Involvement in VUHA Successful Council Resolution

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