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Topic - Housing News
Government Policy

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...

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Ian Horswill
04 Jul 2025
Sector Moves & People

Former NSW Govt Minister Rob Stokes starts role as Anglicare Sydney’s Group Executive - Housing

In the newly-created role, the retired long-serving NSW politician will lead the growth and strategic direction of Anglicare’s Housing business unit, strengthening the organisation’s focus on providing more safe and affordable homes for those...

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Ian Horswill
30 Jun 2025
Funding

Aspen Group aimed to raise $4M – but could have taken $18M

The ASX-listed affordable accommodation provider, which has 10 active projects, announced a Security Purchase Plan (SPP) on Wednesday, 28 May, offering existing investors the opportunity to acquire up to $30,000 in Aspen Group securities without...

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Ian Horswill
16 Jun 2025
Housing News

First modular homes for more than 65,000 on NSW social housing waitlist

The NSW Government, which has a gowing wait list of people needing social housing, 11,161 priority approved and 54,597 general approved. has announced the first factory built modular social homes are nearing completion. Three modular homes are being...

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Ian Horswill
02 Jun 2025
Housing News

Anglican Care’s closed aged care home converted into housing for women over 55

The agency of the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle announced it was shutting an aged care home in Mt Hutton, a suburb of Lake Macquarie, 14km west-southwest of Newcastle, in March 2022. On Saturday, NSW Government announcedit has been converted in 20 units for homeless women..

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Ian Horswill
19 May 2025
Out of the Ordinary

Will this catch on? Residential homes only for over-45s

In a first, 24 homes are being built for people aged 45 and over. “It’s a new concept. People haven’t really done a downsizer community development like this before. People put age restrictions on properties, but not for the reasons we have...

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Ian Horswill
19 May 2025
Funding

Aspen touts 20% return on invested capital at property investor event

The ASX-listed affordable housing provider has revealed strong performance metrics, highlighting a 20% return on invested capital across its portfolio of more than 1,500 sites in 10 communities. Speaking at Barrenjoey’s Emerging Property Companies...

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Lauren Broomham
12 May 2025
Development

Eureka secures $180M in refinancing deal, acquires new site in QLD

Eureka Group Holdings CEO Simon Owen is delivering on his ambition to make the company Australia’s market leader in both over-50s and all-age rental communities, after successfully refinancing and expanding its debt facilities.

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Lauren Broomham
02 May 2025
Housing News

15 new social homes planned for senior co-housing community in WA’s South West

“Whilst the project does not offer assisted living or nursing facilities, and each member is responsible for themselves, it is common in cohousing communities that if someone is sick, neighbours will help with activities like bringing them meals...

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Lauren Broomham
28 Apr 2025
Funding

Mareeba Community Housing Co granted extension to management of Community Housing for Seniors

The community at the base of Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland has more than 300 locals, including seniors, currently vulnerable to homelessness. Mareeba Community Housing Company (MCHC), which was given a three-year extension to its...

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Ian Horswill
31 Mar 2025
Housing

Barossa Village revitalises underutilised land for the Buna/Kokoda housing project in Nuriootpa

Each of the five homes, which replaced two houses on the 2,400msq site in the town of Nuriootpa, the commercial centre of South Australia’s Barossa Valley, has been individually designed. “These are not one-size-fits-all units — they are...

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Ian Horswill
14 Apr 2025
Mergers & Acquisitions

‘Affordable’ Aspen Group adds to portfolio with second WA land buy in six weeks

The ASX-listed affordable housing group announced last Wednesday it has entered a conditional contract to buy a new 18ha accommodation complex in Australind, a town 12km northeast of Bunbury’s CBD. Aspen Group, which serves the 40% of Australian...

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Ian Horswill
07 Apr 2025
Topic - Housing News

Sydney Anglican Property lodging DAs to renew two sites with housing for women over 55 included

Social and affordable housing is much-needed in Sydney’s southwest and two projects delivering almost 260 such homes have been successful under Round 1 of the Albanese Government’s Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF). However, as the Coalition...

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Ian Horswill
31 Mar 2025
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