June 2008

The Logan /Lanarta Branch are hosting a networking breakfast  for real estate agencies, local housing and support organisations, Department of Housing staff, and local and state government representatives.  The event will provide an opportunity for housing stakeholders to build relationships and establish common interests. Speakers from the Residential tenancies Authority, Small Claims Tribunal, Logan Tenancy Advice and Advocacy Service, REIQ and Local Government have been invited. Queensland Shelter and Community Renewal are sponsoring the event and working with the branch to ensure that the breakfasts become a regular feature of the newly expansive Logan landscape.

Building  Bridges, part of Interlink Housing’s  community development program, employs three Burundi workers who perform cleaning, yard maintenance, and contents removals for Interlink properties and tenants. The group have their own ABN, public liability Insurance, and enough work to open franchises across the state.

 Interlink have also worked with Local Developer Sam Dragut, and the Queensland Community Housing Coalition, to establish an MOU for management of the area’s first affordable housing development on Queens Road.      

 The area continues to report a high degree of unmet demand with 90 percent of calls to the Nightspot coming from children under the age of 16, whom they are unable to house unless referred by Child Safety. Youth and Family Service were only able to house 3percent of applicants.

 Still, Logan has not been assessed as high needs area or assigned a Homelessness Early Intervention worker.