Housing News

Social and senior housing. 33 desperate Northern Beaches women turned away each month. How can the Prime Minister smile?

Throughout Australia the need for social housing, particularly seniors, continues to grow. Narelle Hand “Older women are needing safe affordable housing more than ever,” said Narelle Hand, Chief Executive Officer at Northern Beaches Women’s...

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Ian Horswill

27 Jan 2025

Aged Care

Southern Cross Care (WA) puts homeless seniors into one of its aged care homes

The Not For Profit has a 97% occupancy rate, well above the Government’s national average of 86.1%, with 476 residents in its eight residential aged care homes in Perth’s Metropolitan area, Kalgoorlie and Broome.

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Ian Horswill

15 Jan 2025

Housing News

Bethanie Housing chosen by WA Government to build and operate new seniors social housing development

The registered charity, which provides subsidised accommodation and services to seniors in need, has been chosen as the preferred operator to develop and operate a new 90-dwelling community housing development in Mount Lawley, an inner northern suburb of Perth.

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Ian Horswill

15 Jan 2025

Government Policy

New modular homes for seniors in West Australian town

Just three two-bedroom, one-bathroom homes will be available for seniors on the housing waitlist in Manjimup, a town 307km south of the state capital, Perth, in early 2025. The modular houses have been added to the 26-lot Cherry Glades development site...

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Ian Horswill

10 Jan 2025

Development

SA Government proposes four to six-storey retirement villages targeting single occupants

“The aim of the Accommodation Diversity Code Amendment is to increase the number of well-designed, diverse, and affordable housing supply options across the entire state, to respond to these population projections and growth in single person...

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Ian Horswill

09 Dec 2024

Housing News

First women aged 55 and over move into social housing in Melbourne as Margot Robbie Netflix doco highlights older women’s homelessness

Construction of the 96 social housing homes, a partnership between National Affordable Housing and Pace Development Group with $50 million provided by the Victorian Government, began in May 2023. The “missing middle” a term used by the...

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Ian Horswill

09 Dec 2024

Housing News

Apollo Care and The Shelter Collective provide 10 homes for women aged over 55 in Rockhampton

The aged care provider is partnering with the Central Queensland-based community-driven group of organisations to provide 10 affordable homes in Rockhampton. The Shelter Collective identifies underutilised or unused property to repurpose as housing...

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Ian Horswill

09 Dec 2024

Community Living

This is not a retirement village or land lease community — it’s a Build to Rent

The Gladstone, which is South Caroline-based Greystar’s first Build to Rent tower in Australia, has opened its doors with two months’ free rent in Melbourne. The largest apartment manager in the US, with over 726,826 units/beds as of 2023 has...

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Ian Horswill

02 Dec 2024

Housing News

Build to Rent laws passed with forecast of 80,000 rental homes in 10 years

The tax incentives in the Treasury Laws Amendment (Responsible Buy Now Pay Later and Other Measures) Bill 2024 and Capital Works (Build to Rent Misuse Tax) Bill 2024 apply to Build to Rent (BTR) projects of 50 or more apartments or dwellings, made...

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Ian Horswill

02 Dec 2024

Housing News

WA Government approves development of social and affordable BTR

The first state government-led Build to Rent will have109 one- and two-bedroom social, affordable and specialist disability rental apartments, across a four-storey development. The Smith Street Build-to-Rent (BTR) project is on the site of former...

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Ian Horswill

02 Dec 2024

Housing News

Funding secured for Uniting WA to operate social housing for women over 55 in Perth

The Not For Profit owns Wyn Carr House in Freemantle, 19km southwest of Perth’s CBD, and has secured $7 million from the state government to redevelop it for transitional accommodation for women over 55 facing homelessness. It had been hoped to...

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Ian Horswill

02 Dec 2024

Development

Goodwin will subsidise seven affordable retirement living units in new ACT village

The independent Not For Profit medium rise village in Downer, designed by CK Architecture, which will have 109 Independent Living Units (ILUs) and 20 Assisted Living Apartments. “The 109 ILUs will however include seven Affordable Retirement Living...

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Ian Horswill

10 Nov 2024

Housing News

Every apartment in RFBI’s affordable housing for women over 55 in NSW Mid North Coast snapped up

It is taken six years since the plan was first conceived and now CEO Frank Price is a happy man. The 23 one-bedroom affordable apartments for women over 55 facing homelessness in Watson Place, Bellingen, 547km north of Sydney, is through Belloran...

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Ian Horswill

10 Nov 2024