Items Tagged With "Housing"
New affordable housing in the ACT (News)
The Rudd Government is investing more than $1 billion in the National Rental Affordability Scheme, which will deliver 50,000 new homes across Australia by 2012.
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Federal Minister for Housing Tanya Plibersek and ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope today officially opened a new 24 home National Rental Affordability Scheme development in Holt.
The Holt 24 Freestyle Apartments project has been developed by CHC Affordable Housing and includes 16 one-bedroom apartments and eight two-bedroom apartments.
All tenants are low or moderate income earners, including a painter who received the keys to his new apartment at today’s official opening.
Housing construction in NT town camps (News)
The start of the first three bedroom house has given twelve local Aboriginal men jobs as trade assistants after completing training in general construction, work safety and carpentry.
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Construction is underway on the first of 85 houses to be built in the Alice Springs town camps under the Strategic Indigenous Housing and Infrastructure Program.
The Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin, the Northern Territory Minister for Central Australia, Karl Hampton, and the Minister for Indigenous Health and the Member for Lingiari, Warren Snowdon, today welcomed the start of work on the first new house at Larapinta Valley.
Street to Home program in the ACT (News)
The program will help prevent homelessness by linking rough sleepers with the appropriate support to get a roof over their head with the aim of sustaining long-term housing.
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Federal Minister for Housing, Tanya Plibersek and ACT Minister for Housing, Joy Burch today launched ‘Street to Home’ – an assertive outreach service aimed to help homeless people sleeping rough in the ACT.
St Vincent de Paul will receive nearly $1 million over three years from the Australian and ACT Governments to provide the assertive outreach program for rough sleepers in Canberra.
Defence housing aided by stimulus program (News)
The construction of an extra 829 Defence houses nationwide under the Rudd Government's stimulus program is making a big difference in regional centres.
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Greg Combet, Minister for Defence Personnel, Materiel and Science, today announced that Defence Housing Australia (DHA) is making strong progress one year into the Government's stimulus program.
"As part of the stimulus plan, DHA was allocated $245.58 million to build 802 houses throughout Australia. Due to program efficiencies another 27 houses have also been included in the program, giving a total of 829 houses," Mr Combet said.
New housing opportunities in Ilpeye Ilpeye (News)
The chance to own their own home is a step closer for Alice Springs traditional owners living at Ilpeye Ilpeye, a town camp located on the eastern boundary of Alice Springs.
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The chance to own their own home is a step closer for Alice Springs traditional owners living at Ilpeye Ilpeye, a town camp located on the eastern boundary of Alice Springs.
Through the Australian Government’s acquisition of the land, the underlying tenure of Ilpeye Ilpeye has changed from community lease to freehold held by the Commonwealth. Any underlying native title is preserved.
New social housing properties in Canberra (News)
The project will feature 42 one and two bedroom apartments and is part of the Federal Government's Nation Building Program and the ACT Government's commitment to deliver housing for lower income earners.
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Federal Minister for Housing, Tanya Plibersek and ACT Minister for Housing, Joy Burch today announced work has begun on an $11.65 million housing development in Henty Street, Braddon.
The project will feature 42 one and two bedroom apartments, and is part of the Federal Government's Nation Building Program and the ACT Government's commitment to deliver housing for lower income earners.
Support for family violence victims in SA (News)
To help break the cycle of family violence, 120 new safety houses for victims of domestic violence are being built in South Australia, under the Nation Building - Economic Stimulus Package.
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More support than ever before will be provided to victims of domestic violence in South Australia, under new plans announced by the Australian and South Australian Governments.
To help break the cycle of family violence 120 new safety houses for victims of domestic violence are being built in South Australia, under the Nation Building - Economic Stimulus Package.
Stimulus plan delivers jobs and homes in Adelaide (News)
The Rudd Government's Nation Building Economic Stimulus Plan is providing a $5.5 million for 16 new homesat Hackham in Adelaide's south.
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Federal Minister for Housing Tanya Plibersek today visited a $5.5 million housing project at Hackham where 16 new homes are being constructed under the Nation Building Economic Stimulus Plan.
The two and three bedroom homes, being built by Qattro property services, will be energy efficient and have solar power hot water systems and rain water tanks.
Housing Stimulus to benefit homeless (News)
The Rudd Government has announced that at least 50 per cent of new social housing units delivered under the Nation Building Economic Stimulus Plan will be provided to homeless Australians, or those at risk of homelessness.
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The Rudd Government today
announced that at least 50 per cent of new social housing units delivered under
the Nation Building Economic Stimulus Plan will be provided to homeless
Australians, or those at risk of homelessness.
The announcement was made
on the first anniversary of the launch of the Australian Government's
Homelessness White Paper.
"Through the White Paper we
have made reducing homelessness a national priority," Minister for Housing Tanya
Plibersek said.
$12M boost for affordable housing (News)
The Economic Stimulus Plan will see 512 new social housing properties delivered across Tasmania to support local jobs in the construction industry as demand in the private
sector begins to pick up during the recovery.
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Tanya Plibersek
The Australian and Tasmanian
Governments today announced that Centacare Tasmania will receive a $12 million
funding package which will see 78 new housing units built across
Tasmania.
The Minister for Human Services, Lin
Thorp said Centacare would receive the largest funding package to be awarded for
social housing to a not-for-profit organisation under the Nation Building
Economic Stimulus Plan in
Tasmania.
