Toolkit
Placemaking Toolkit
Improving services, engagement and satisfaction in estate communities — a practical toolkit for strengthening connected, inclusive and thriving neighbourhoods through placemaking.
Open toolkit
We strengthen community housing through participation, tenant voice, place-based leadership and community-led development — working alongside providers, practitioners and communities across Australia.
Belonging, wellbeing and resilience — built home by home.
Community development creates the conditions to reduce inequality, strengthen belonging, and enable people and communities to thrive.
It is a strengths-based, participatory approach that builds local capacity, leadership, inclusion and collective action — improving wellbeing and resilience across housing communities.
It moves beyond tenancy management toward connected neighbourhoods where people can participate, contribute, lead and shape the places they live.
Through engagement, partnerships, leadership development and place-based initiatives, community development helps create healthier, more inclusive and more resilient communities — and a sector that keeps getting better at the work.
Shared learning and collaboration that respond to the real challenges facing community housing providers and practitioners.
Education, resources and advocacy that build the confidence, skills and evidence base of community development practice.
Celebrating and lifting best practice, so great community development becomes the standard right across the sector.
Evidence-informed, strengths-based resources supporting community housing providers and practitioners to strengthen engagement and grow thriving communities.
Improving services, engagement and satisfaction in estate communities — a practical toolkit for strengthening connected, inclusive and thriving neighbourhoods through placemaking.
Open toolkitA sector-focused framework supporting evidence-informed, strengths-based and community-led practice across the community housing sector.
Open frameworkActivating communal spaces to strengthen participation, social connection, wellbeing and engagement within housing communities.
Open guideCommunity Development Australia (CDA) brings together community development, engagement, participation and placemaking practitioners and stakeholders committed to advancing the quality of life of people living in community housing.
By sharing practice wisdom, insights, evidence and expertise — in theory and in practice — CDA influences future practice and fosters meaningful collaboration across the sector.
Sign up and we’ll invite you to network meetings — connecting you with practitioners, providers and researchers strengthening community development across Australia’s housing sector.
Sign up to the networkOr email the coordinator, Jesse Taylor — Connect@CommunityDevelopment.Au