Cobar is a remote town in western NSW. For 30 years the local Council has been supporting Lillian Bray Village, a 34 bed hostel and care facility and now wants somebody else to take over given its losses. Ratepayers are subsidizing its $2.5 million annual budget by $200,000 a year. Between 2005 and 2010 it made losses of $335,000; in the past two years it made a surplus after subsidies of $14,000. This is a tip of the iceberg. Each week another Council declares it needs to unburden itself of a community care facility.
Funding secured for Wesley Mission’s affordable and supported housing project in Canberra
Wesley Mission’s affordable rental and supported housing development in Curtin, Canberra, is officially going ahead after securing funding through the first round of the Australian Government’s $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF)...