Promoting affordability and social wellbeing

Four years ago, the Happy Homes project convened housing industry stakeholders and created innovative and powerful strategies to promote affordability and social wellbeing through design and social programming in multi-unit buildings.

This project aims to demonstrate and share the social and affordable benefits of thoughtful design and social programming. 

• The first demonstration site (Tomo House) focuses on the impact of design strategies. The second site (Collingwood Village) focuses on social programming actions – both demonstrations are applying strategies from the Happy Homes toolkit.
• The demonstration project will assess residents’ perceptions of social trust, belonging, engagement, safety, accessibility, financial barriers and resilience.