What is the AHC doing to address the social problems on the Block?
A. It is no accident that the Block is in the state it is. This is the end result of decades of Government neglect and ill-conceived policies that have maintained both poverty and crime in the area. For many years fingers have been pointed at the AHC as being responsible for dealing with every problem on the Block, just because it is the landlord. The AHC is set up to only deliver affordable housing and it has become a belief that the AHC should be expected to deal with the issues of law and order, drugs, alcohol abuse, the abuse of women and children and so on? In reality it simply cannot. The social dysfunction and disadvantage of this community is overwhelming and only through the cooperation of service providers and adequate resourcing can the issues on the Block be addressed. The Block has always been in the too hard basket for Government and the AHC has had to take the proverbial bull by the horns and overstep its original charter and prepare a Community Social Plan for the Block
