Affordable Housing Archives

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 […]

Why Orange needs more affordable housing

Dear Editor, Like many of your readers, three articles these past weeks particularly caught my eye. The first: “Cadia announces ‘hundreds of jobs’ to be created in $685 million expansion”; the second: “Rental forums to help property owners capitalise on Cadia mine expansion”: and the third: “Rental prices up six per cent with houses and […]

Housing Plus – part of a solution for the region’s affordable housing shortage

CHIA recently issued a media release stating that regional towns and country areas are being ignored in debates around housing and housing affordability – even though 1 in 3 new social and affordable homes needed in NSW by 2036 are outside of Sydney. In the Central West, new data coming from the recent Domain rental […]

Housing Plus invests $75M to address Central West and Orana housing shortage

The region’s ageing population, in particular vulnerable older women, are set to benefit from a $75M investment by Housing Plus. Housing Plus, a local, regionally based community housing provider, is delivering 220 new social and affordable homes across Orange, Dubbo and Bathurst in the next three years, with the first properties becoming available in October […]

Analysis of the housing market finds Central West is unaffordable for households on low incomes

Housing Plus has prepared Affordable Housing Needs Analyses for Orange, Mid-Western Regional, Bathurst Regional, Dubbo Regional, Blayney and Lithgow local government areas to provide an understanding of the demand for affordable housing within Central West NSW and the extent to which current provision of housing meets the needs of existing and future residents. These analyses […]

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 […]

National Rental Affordability Scheme (NRAS)

NRAS is designed to stimulate the supply of new affordable rental dwellings. These dwellings will be rented to eligible applicants at a rate at least 20% below the prevailing market rate. Under Round 4 of the NRAS program, Housing Plus successfully applied to develop 53 units of affordable housing. These dwellings, which were build duirng […]

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