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Part 2: Strategic priority two: Facilitate community development
This priority relates to the Corporation's need to engage with communities and develop long-term partnerships that effect social change.
The key influencer of change in a community is the community itself. The Corporation is helping to build capability within communities, particularly in areas with high levels of social need. This approach requires the Corporation to move from being a social land-lord and asset manager to a community builder. As a community builder, the Corporation will adopt a strong community focus in all programmes. Support systems, such as community boards, will also be put in place so communities can be maintained and enhanced in the future.
The Corporation will position itself as a catalyst for change in communities in areas where social housing predominates. Working with the communities themselves, as well as local authorities and partner agencies from other sectors, the Corporation will integrate changes to housing stock with support for community development and an holistic approach to urban planning and social service delivery. This will help create communities that are strong, vibrant, healthy and economically sustainable, and support good outcomes for those who live in them.
The Corporation, through its property development activity, is also taking a more active role in the creation of new communities. For example, at Hobsonville in north-west Auckland, the Corporation is creating an integrated, mixed-tenure community for a range of owners and income levels, including social and affordable housing. The 10-15 year planned development, over an area of 16167 hectares, will include over 3,000 quality new homes, extensive reserves and parks and open spaces for community use.
Key activities to achieve this strategic priority include:
- influencing change and building capability in areas of high social need
- developing a business case to achieve transformation in the Tamaki community through an inter-agency approach linking housing redevelopment to improvements in social and economic outcomes
- incorporating affordable housing into the Hobsonville development
- identifying additional community development opportunities that utilise economies of scale.
