ACHL has been granted $10,000 funding from the NSW government’s Community Housing Division (CHD) to run the ACHL Tenant Empowerment Project or ATEP. The aim of the project is to improve tenants’ involvement in ACHL’s business decision-making process by providing them with skills to increase their participation and enable active engagement.

 Up to 20 youth tenant volunteers will be identified through ACHL’s meet-and-greet program and nominations from our four local tenant groups. The project will be delivered in partnership with Granville TAFE, University of Western Sydney (UWS), the Housing Appeals Committee (HAC), the Tenant Union, the ACHL Tenant Council and local tenant groups. It will be overseen by the ACHL Housing Services Coordinator.

Granville TAFE will run workshops for the project participants to develop skills in business principles and decision-making. HAC and the Tenant Union will be invited to speak at some of these workshops. The participants will be given an opportunity to shadow an ACHL Housing Manager for a day to understand the complex nature of decision-making and they will be also invited to observe Consumer, Trade and Tenancies Tribunal (CTTT) hearings and ACHL board meetings.

ACHL will work with the UWS Careers and Corporate section to identify suitable candidates to run the project, assisted by the ACHL Community Development Officer.