Customer Newsletter – Spring 2023
Welcome to our Spring Newsletter for 2023. In this newsletter, we welcome our new CEO, Justin Cantelo, alongside some new faces in the team, who have recently joined us. You will also find some handy tips to perform some Spring cleaning on the filters around your house and information on resources to help ease the cost […]
Design Guide: Specialist Domestic Violence Accommodation
This Design Guide has been developed by Housing Plus in collaboration with Custance Architects. It explores the importance of providing thoughtful and high[1]quality design for those affected by domestic and family violence (DFV) and key factors that need to be considered when new facilities are designed and built, through design that meets their need for […]
Join us for a coffee for a great cause
Introducing the Housing Plus Shot of Support fundraising and awareness campaign for The Orchard Dubbo, The Orchard is crisis accommodation for women and children escaping domestic and family violence. Participating cafés and businesses will be donating $1 from every coffee sold on the day or donating a percentage of their profits. We would love to see […]
A New Home For Housing Plus in Bathurst
On the move to Boyd Street Housing Plus has relocated all our existing Bathurst based tenancy and community services to our new premises at 61 Boyd Street. These include tenancy and maintenance services, Opportunity Pathways, which supports social housing clients to access practical and financial assistance, training, and work opportunities to help them prepare for employment, find a job, work more hours, […]
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 […]
Renovations complete, Orange Homelessness Refuge
Wiree is a refuge for individuals experiencing homelessness in Orange managed by Housing Plus. In 2019, Housing Plus received $325,000 from the Department of Communities and Justice to fund the renovations through the Outsourced Maintenance Program for crisis accommodation. There are nine single rooms which include a TV, fridge, bed and ensuite, communal area that […]
Home Energy Action Program initiated
Housing Plus are currently rolling out a project under the NSW Government Home Energy Action Program (HEAP) Department of Planning Industry & Environment (DPIE). The HEAP is funded through a co-contribution at 50/50 between HP & DPIE. The Program commenced November 2020. The project aims to deliver a range of financial, health and wellbeing benefits to […]
Merry Christmas from Us – Housing Plus CEO Update – December 2020
Housing Plus would like to wish you a merry Christmas and a safe and happy new year. It has been a very different year for everyone, and a very busy year for most. A final update for 2020, from our CEO David Fisher, is below Housing Plus CEO Update December 2020 We thank you for […]
Housing Plus to invest $20.5 million into Central West NSW communities
Housing Plus will build and provide 60 new affordable homes across Bathurst, Cowra, Lithgow, Parkes, Mudgee and Dubbo in the coming years after being awarded a further contract with the NSW Government. These 60 new dwellings will be in addition to the 220 affordable homes that Housing Plus is currently delivering across the Central West […]
Housing to address homelessness in Bathurst and Cabonne
The recent announcement that Housing Plus will be delivering the Together Home program across Bathurst and Cabonne areas of Central West NSW was welcomed by CEO David Fisher. Together Home is a new NSW government initiative aimed at tackling rough sleeping. Those sleeping rough in our communities will be rapidly housed and given on going […]
