May 2019

The Australian Social Value Bank (ASVB) is a cloud-based platform that allows users to quantitatively measure the impact its interventions have on participants of the program as well as on the community. The ASVB contains a database that captures the benefit or the social value of achieving specific outcomes. It comprise 62 different outcomes organised under seven categories and uses them to calculate benefits to individuals as well as the benefit to government overall.

The values used in this cost-benefit analysis have been derived using the Wellbeing Valuation Method from data gathered through the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia )HILDA) and Journeys Home surveys. Importantly, the ASVB calculator measures what changes for participants as a result of being within a particular program.

Unity Housing have applied the ASVB model to a number of operational programs and this analysis provides the results of this application.

To continue reading and see the results, click here.

To celebrate Neighbour Day this year, Unity Housing held a range of events across the region.

Neighbour Day is Australia’s annual celebration of community, encouraging people to connect with those who live in their neighbourhood.

Responsibility for Australia’s Neighbour Day belongs to every person, in every community. Here at Unity Housing, we have a social responsibility to all our tenants in creating thriving communities.

This year, the official Neighbour Day date was Sunday, March 31, with the theme of ‘Loneliness – what neighbours can do to createconnections’. We had a total of seven events to make it a real week of connection.

Unity Housing tenants and staff worked together to provide pathways for tenants to contribute and drive these events, making them truly community-owned. We received more than $3,700 in donations and even more in in-kind support.

See the highlights from our events, from Seaford Meadows to Davoren Park, below.