Making a mark in the social and affordable housing sector
While the pandemic presented challenges for both our staff and residents, Housing Choices continued to leave its mark in the social and affordable housing sector thanks to the efforts of the property development and
We continued to strengthen our existing partnerships and our work with the socially, financially and environmentally sustainable property developer Nightingale through Housing Choices’ commitment in their project pipeline. We continued our collaborative joint venture with Assemble Communities on five exciting innovative, affordable and social housing projects that are architecturally designed and delivered without a government subsidy. The commercial team also made a high volume of tender submissions. In response to the worsening housing crisis facing Australia, these tender submissions are crucial to working with local, state and federal governments to address the issue. Most notably was Housing Choices’ responses to five significant tenders from Homes Victoria, some focusing on specific regional locations and others focusing on in-need tenant cohorts such as Aboriginal Victorians and Victorians living with mental illness. Housing Choices also submitted multiple tenders to the Western Australian Department of Communities as our organisation works towards addressing both social housing and key worker affordable housing needs.
There has been significant progression and completion of numerous developments across Tasmania, including our partnership with Cumulus Studio and Homes Tasmania at our new development in West Ulverstone. Housing Choices was proud to deliver 32 dwellings through the Federal Government’s Hobart City Deals funding program including the award-winning development at Marys Hope Road in Rosetta. Overall, we completed nine developments in Hobart and North West Tasmania and 109 new housing outcomes (or dwellings). In South Australia we recently celebrated the “topping out” of Nightingale Bowden, and the building is almost ready for tenants to move in to the 36 apartments. In Western Australia we successfully gained government funding under the Social Housing Economic Recovery Package (SHERP) New Build Grants Program for three significant new developments in Falcon, Viveash and Greenfields. Work is underway on these sites, and we look forward to delivering 49 dwellings to people in need.
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It was an extremely busy year with significant construction projects in progress across all states with a development pipeline of $35 6 million. We have deepened our relationships with state governments and their development agencies as well as numerous local governments to enable growth of new housing stock. In Victoria, we progressed over $200m of projects located in Carnegie, Geelong, Preston, North Melbourne, Pascoe Vale, Hampton East and Werribee funded through the Big Housing Build’s Rapid Grants Round. In 2022 we also celebrated the completion of significant projects delivering 49 dwellings at the Queen Victoria Market Munro site and 30 dwellings across three Nightingale sites in Ballarat and Brunswick.
Artwork Left: Orient Hotel – Simon Marchment (WA) Pictured below: Staff and stakeholders celebrating the “topping out” of Nightingale Bowden.
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2021-22 annual report
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