Planning Assessment Tool
Aim
To produce a Housing for Health data analysis tool to help scope major upgrade works following a FHBH project.
Background
This was developed to assist the National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing target upgrade monies more carefully to achieve the goals of the National Indigenous Housing Guide. Trialled repeatedly in the first rounds of the SIHIP program in the NT, the tool was improved as the role out of the NPARIH was being undertaken. The PAT tool has been ignored by the national programs, but used internally by all FHBH projects and NSW Health in their management of the Housing for Health program - where larger budgets are often available.
The PAT tool includes the following features:
- PAT uses existing data collected during SF1 and 2 of all FHBH projects
- A complex set of pre-selected analysis profiles grouping key items that will allow the testing the potential of each house for minor maintenance, upgrading, rebuilding or demolition and replacement.
- The ability to select a customised set of items for checking the potential for upgrading of a house
- Reports for all selected items
- Ability to use Survey Fix 1 or 2 information
- Ranking of all houses from best to poorest relative to the selected analysis
The PAT has been developed, trialled, continually improved and used in the FHBH 9 program. The rejection of the PAT by the larger national programs, despite being offered free and with assistance from HH, calls into question the methods used by these programs to scope and deliver a complex range of minor maintenance, upgrading, rebuilding or demolition and replacement works in a wide variety of communities around Australia.