The Executive Director of the Property Councils Retirement Living chapter, Mary Wood, has been leveraging her past as Chief of Staff to the Minister for Housing to gain access to senior politicians on both sides I the weeks before the election to champion age-appropriate housing for seniors. She has met with Federal Housing Minister Julie Collins, Shadow Minister for Ageing Concetta Fierravanti-Wells and Shadow Housing Minister Marise Payne. She pressed that 175,000 people live in retirement villages roughly the same as in aged care.
The Retirement Living Council is for the first time taking the sector to the national level, asking the next Federal Government
18,650 social and affordable homes funded as 370 homes repurposed
The Australian Government’s flagship Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) has agreed to fund 9,284 social and 9,366 affordable homes through 279 successful projects under the first two funding rounds of the HAFF and National Housing Accord Facility...