Western Australia Home Stories Autumn 2023

Call out to our culturally diverse tenants Did you know that almost half of Australians were either born overseas or have a parent who was? Housing Choices WA acknowledges that we have many tenants from diverse backgrounds, cultures and ethnicities. We house people from over 70 different countries with the top 10 countries of birth being Australia, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Sudan, Somalia, Iran, Afghanistan, Philippines, China and Ethiopia. Call out to our culturally diverse tenants We are holding some focus groups for our culturally and linguistically diverse tenants to get their feedback on how we can better include and involve tenants from multicultural backgrounds. Whether you were born in another country, speak a language other than English or come from diverse backgrounds, nationalities, traditions and religions we want to hear from you. Tenants who attend will receive reimbursement for their time. If you are interested, please contact Tenant Engagement Officer Alex Kepes on 0437 887 675 or via alex.kepes@hcau.org.au.

Above: (L-R) Tenancy Services Manager Bec Martin, Tenancy Assistant Sarah Stack, Housing Choices tenant Layton and Tenant Engagement Officer Alex Kepes.

Aboriginal Family Fun Day

As part of our reconciliation journey to better engage our Aboriginal tenants, we held our first Aboriginal Family Fun Day and BBQ in January at the Kwinana Adventure Park. After talking to tenants, we understood that they were looking for a culturally welcoming space that was suitable for children and extended family so tenants could connect with each other. With wonderful weather and plenty of food we had a great time getting to know our tenants and their mob. Housing Choices staff enjoyed taking on

new roles for the day as lead temporary tattoo artists and bubble blowers. One of our Aboriginal tenants, Layton (pictured above) shared information and stories about the history of his mob with other tenants and was able to find connections

between families. Housing Choices is committed to

providing culturally safe environments for tenants to connect and we look forward to holding more of these events in the future for our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families.

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