Pride Of Place

Pride Of Place is an initiative designed to target the improvement of the presentation of houses and gardens, as well as cleaning up public spaces.

Having a clean, neat environment helps make people proud of their surroundings, in turn creating a significant positive effect on social norms. It is also a family development project that strengthens households and communities while building people’s skills and confidence.

Pride Of Place Private encourages families to take pride in and responsibility for the condition of their homes and backyards with $10,000 (per property) in home improvement funds available.

These funds are intended for home improvements that are above and beyond the maintenance and upgrades already carried out and/or planned by the landlords (local council/local representative body/Department of Housing).

Improvements may include:

• Landscaping
• Tree Planting
• House Painting
• Carport or Garden Shed Construction

A Pride Of Place project manager is assigned to work with families and assist families to plan, design and carry out their improvements.

Conditions of Funds

In order to receive these funds, households must:

• Sign a new tenancy agreement (have a good rental payment record and no rental arrears)
• Agree to participate in carrying out the improvements
• Financially contribute to the ongoing care of the household

Objectives

• Families make financial contributions, take practical action and gain the skills and confidence to beautify their houses and backyards so that they are safe, healthy and prideful homes which are available to home ownership
• Pride in homes leads to practical action and voluntary contributions to beautify community spaces

This project is designed, developed and delivered by Cape York Partnerships.