Housing Connect 2.0: Collaboration vs. Competition

<p>At the beginning of the Housing Connect partnership in 2013 there was a collective desire by the five partnering (NFP) agencies in Tasmania to work together and pursue the ‘Holy Grail’ of service integration (Donoghue 2014).  By the end of the partnership there was more appetite for a competitive rather than a collective tender. I will try to unpack why this occurred and identify some of the internal & external forces at play in the partnership.  However, the fact that the original Housing Connect partnership lasted for over 10 years is a major achievement and something all parties should be very proud of in a competitive funding environment.</p>