Australia’s social housing sector is under great pressure. Actions to improve social housing sector capacity and responsiveness have occupied the minds and endeavours of many policy makers, practitioners and scholars for some time now. This article focusses on one approach to challenges within the sector recently adopted in a socio-economically disadvantaged area within Adelaide, South Australia: transfer of housing stock from the public to the community housing sector for capacity and community building purposes (the Better Places, Stronger Communities Public Housing Transfer Program). The discussion draws on evaluative research about this northern Adelaide program, which has a deliberate theoretical and practical foundation in community development and place-making as a means for promoting and strengthening social inclusion, complementing its tenancy management and asset growth focuses. Tenants and other stakeholders report valued outcomes from the program’s community development activities—the focus of this article—which have included the coproduction of new and necessary social and physical infrastructures to support community participation and engagement among (vulnerable) tenants and residents, confidence in the social landlord and greater feelings of safety and inclusion among tenants, underpinning an improving sense of home, community and place. Consideration of program outcomes and lessons reminds us of the importance of the ‘social’ in social housing and social landlords. The program provides a model for how social landlords can work with tenants and others to (re)build home and community in places impacted by structural disadvantage, dysfunction, or change. The article adds to the literature on the role of housing, in this case community housing, as a vehicle for place-making and promoting community development and social inclusion.

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（重新）在社会住房部门中建立房屋和社区：南澳大利亚方法的经验教训

澳大利亚的社会住房部门面临巨大压力。一段时间以来，提高社会住房部门能力和响应能力的行动已占据许多决策者，从业者和学者的思想和努力。本文重点介绍一种应对南澳州阿德莱德市在社会经济上处于不利地位的地区最近采取的部门内挑战的方法：出于能力和社区建设目的，将住房存量从公共部门转移到社区住房部门（更好的地方，更强社区公共住房转让计划）。讨论基于对阿德莱德北部计划的评估研究，该计划在社区发展和场所营造方面有深思熟虑的理论和实践基础，以此作为促进和加强社会包容的手段，补充其租赁管理和资产增长重点。租户和其他利益相关者报告了该计划的社区发展活动（本文的重点）的宝贵成果，该活动包括共同生产新的和必要的社会和物质基础设施，以支持社区参与和（弱势）租户和居民之间的参与，对社区的信任。社会上的房东，房客的安全感和包容性，增强了家庭，社区和地方的意识。对计划结果和课程的思考使我们想起了“社会”在社会住房和社会房东中的重要性。该程序提供了一个模型，用于说明社会房东如何与租户和其他人一起在受结构性劣势，功能障碍或变更影响的地方（重建）房屋和社区。