Emma Power

@dremmapower

Editor @IJHPEditors | Geographer; housing, home and the caring city | Associate Professor, Western Sydney University | dremmapower.com

Parramatta, Sydney dremmapower.com Joined February 2016

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Emma Power @dremmapower Jun 23, 2022

Super pleased to share this one - Shadow care infrastructures: Sustaining life in post-welfare cities. Theorising how people survive in fragmenting, post-welfare cities - w/ @KathyMee10 @MitchyEmma & Ilan Wiesel journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03…

journals.sagepub.com Shadow care infrastructures: Sustaining life in post-welfare cities - Emma R Power, Ilan Wiesel,... Economic restructuring and welfare reform are driving new forms of urban poverty in the global north. Shadow care infrastructures is a new frame for conceptuali...

Emma Power @dremmapower Oct 28, 2024

Honoured to give the opening keynote at the Finnish Social Policy Association conference @ University of Eastern Finland - presenting new work on the labours of surviving on a low income in post-welfare cities, from our shadow care infrastructures project.

Emma Power @dremmapower Jun 25, 2024

Thrilled to be awarded an ARC Linkage: Delivering Solutions that Meet Older People’s Housing Aspirations. Led by @RachelOngViforJ we'll co-create strategies to deliver innovative housing solutions + foreground the housing aspirations of older people facing financial constraints.

Emma Power @dremmapower May 15, 2024

Rents have reached a record high in Australia. I caught up with SBS to chat about negotiating a rental increase, legal protections for renters, the need for better rental standards, and where to get help if you're struggling financially: sbs.com.au/news/podcast-e…

www.sbs.com.au Cost of Living Secrets: Renting Rents have reached a record high in Australia as demand outstrips supply in some areas, elevating cost of living pressures for tenants. So what can be done about it?

Emma Power @dremmapower Feb 29, 2024

How do social housing providers navigate social media? It's a space for marketing, advocacy, & tenant communication & engagement - but these sometimes conflict. Check out @jennacondie & Liz Ayres on how community housing providers navigate the space tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

www.tandfonline.com Tenant participation and emerging social media practices in the social housing sector Many housing organizations are using social media to engage with a range of stakeholders including tenants. Tenant participation is being reworked in social media spaces as different (previously mo...