2021 Employment & Training Cadetship Project
The Cadetship Project is a new opportunity that provides successful applicants to undertake paid employment with a Community Housing Provider and study a Certificate IV in Social Housing for a period of 12-months. This combination of training and work means you can earn as you learn! Applications Are Now Open With only 25 cadetships on […]
Media Release – Support for tenants under rental stress
Media Release 30 March 2020 Housing Plus welcomes government commitments to ensure tenants are safely housed during the COVID-19 crisis. Housing Plus support Real Estate Agents and owners who are working with their tenants experiencing rental stress due to job loss as a result of COVID-10, to help to keep them in their homes. If there are private tenants who are worried about […]
Media Release – White Tie Ball to be held late 2020
White Tie Ball to be held late 2020 Housing Plus has been monitoring the extraordinary challenges posed by the COVID-19 virus and its potential impact on the White Tie Ball, which was to be held on Saturday 16th May Whilst the Ball is an important event on our fundraising calendar, the safety, health and well-being […]
Media Release – White Tie Ball – Raising funds to build The Orchard
White Tie Ball – Raising funds to build The Orchard On Saturday 16th May Housing Plus and the Australian Community Media will again be hosting the White Tie Ball. This year we are raising money to complete the fit out of the communal areas that are being built. In 2019, Housing Plus and event partners […]
White Tie Ball: Save the Date – 12 May 2018
In 2018, Housing Plus will again be hosting a White Tie Ball to be held May 2018 at the Orange Ex-Services Club. The White Tie Ball gives us the opportunity to reduce disadvantage within our community by raising money to build a Crisis Centre for women and children escaping domestic violence in Orange and surrounding […]
Housing Plus CEO welcomes second phase of funding to address shortage of social and affordable housing
Housing Plus CEO, David Fisher, welcomes the NSW Premier’s announcement, yesterday, of a second phase of the Social and Affordable Housing Fund, which will provide a much needed boost to housing supply. It is part of a package of new measures to improve housing affordability in NSW, including removing stamp duty for first home buyers […]
‘Really seeing results’: Orange groups unite against domestic violence – CWD
IT may seem counter-intuitive, but those tasked with reducing the causes and incidences of domestic violence, welcome an increase in the number of cases reported to police. “It means that those affected have faith in the system,” said Housing Plus Domestic Violence Services manager Penny Dordoy. http://www.centralwesterndaily.com.au/story/3410705/really-seeing-results-orange-groups-unite-against-domestic-violence/?cs=103
Emergency accommodation crisis: Prime7 Video
A trial program in the Central West has found our region is home to some of the highest domestic violence rates in the State. But despite the overwhelming number of families affected – there is no emergency women\’s refuge based in Orange. Police attend a domestic violence related matter every two minutes. At least one […]
Call for women’s refuge to support domestic violence victims in Orange
Call for women\’s refuge to support domestic violence victims in Orange There is a call for a women\’s refuge in Orange to cater for the high rates of serious domestic violence in the district. The city\’s Domestic Violence Services has received more than 1,400 referrals from police in the past year and almost one-third of […]
Colour City Running Festival donation set to help the homeless
Colour City Running Festival donation set to help the homeless ORGANISERS of next year\’s Colour City Running Festival want to reach out to the city\’s homeless population and victims of domestic violence by donating money from their event to Housing Plus. Co-ordinator of the 2016 festival David Gibson said he was pleased the event had […]
